{"id":34,"date":"2009-04-12T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2020-05-22T11:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:38:28","slug":"three-bags-full-a-sheep-detective-story-leonie-swann-2005-english-translation-2006-anthea-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2009\/04\/three-bags-full-a-sheep-detective-story-leonie-swann-2005-english-translation-2006-anthea-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story &#8211; Leonie Swann, 2005 (English translation 2006, Anthea Bell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an unusual book! It does work &#8211; the sheep are believable sheepy and yet solve the mystery &#8211; but I can&#8217;t say I loved it. It&#8217;s a lot better than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2008\/02\/play-dead-david-rosenfelt-2007\/\"><i>Play Dead<\/i><\/a>, where the dog is the key to the mystery, but precisely because the narrators are sheep and don&#8217;t fully understand what&#8217;s going on, the solution doesn&#8217;t have the complete mystery payoff. We&#8217;re at a remove from all the human protagonists. Instead the payoff is how Swann manages to have her sheep act and reason within their species limitations. It&#8217;s brilliant in a way, and funny, but not compelling. I don&#8217;t want to read anything else on these lines, but I would pick up her next book with anticipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an unusual book! It does work &#8211; the sheep are believable sheepy and yet solve the mystery &#8211; but I can&#8217;t say I loved it. It&#8217;s a lot better than Play Dead, where the dog is the key to the mystery, but precisely because the narrators are sheep and don&#8217;t fully understand what&#8217;s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}