{"id":331,"date":"2014-03-09T18:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2014-03-09T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:08:22","slug":"another-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/09\/another-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Another review&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a good weekend for reviews &#8211; this one is a great read from a person familiar with the ancient and classical world. Read the whole lot at <a href=\"http:\/\/myth.typepad.com\/breakfast\/2014\/03\/scenes-from-a-life.html\" title=\"Review - Scenes from a Life\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/myth.typepad.com\/breakfast\/2014\/03\/scenes-from-a-life.html<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here are a few extracts&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAbbott is a trained scholar of ancient Egyptian and Hebrew, and a keen observer of the archeologies of the Bronze Age Near East. His aim in this gentle, well-crafted novel is to bring to life the ordinary folk of that time, and to tell their stories with attention and care&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Scenes from a Life&#8221; is a &#8220;historical&#8221; by genre, but only because the story unfolds in the past. It explores much more deeply the commonalities of humans throughout the ages: who am I, where did I come from, who are my friends, what is my purpose in life. The striking thing about &#8220;Scenes&#8221; is not its unobtrusive historical accuracy&#8230; but its sensitivity: its assured, mature observation of people&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Scenes from a Life&#8221; is handsomely produced for the Kindle, and includes fascinating background material for the linguistically and historically curious. I found I had large numbers of questions to ask the author after reading this book, but at the same time was absolutely satisfied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/myth.typepad.com\/breakfast\/\" title=\"Breakfast with Pandora home page\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/myth.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bf84253ef00e552569a3b8834-pi\" alt=\"Breakfast with Pandora banner image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a good weekend for reviews &#8211; this one is a great read from a person familiar with the ancient and classical world. Read the whole lot at http:\/\/myth.typepad.com\/breakfast\/2014\/03\/scenes-from-a-life.html. Here are a few extracts&#8230; Abbott is a trained scholar of ancient Egyptian and Hebrew, and a keen observer of the archeologies of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/09\/another-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another review&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-fiction-2","category-review","category-scenes-from-a-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}