{"id":12937,"date":"2018-10-29T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12937"},"modified":"2018-10-29T22:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T02:32:23","slug":"crosstalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/crosstalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosstalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Marie Claire thought he spent too much time on his smartphone (and not enough listening to her fret about Maeve), Kathleen thought he was too rich and good-looking to still be single and therefore had to be hiding something, and even Maeve, who usually sided with Briddey in family debates, had made a face and said, &#8216;His hair&#8217;s too combed. I like guys with messy hair.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crosstalk<\/strong> by Connie Willis, published in 2016<\/p>\n<p>Briddey and her boyfriend Trent are getting an EED, which will allow them to feel each other&#8217;s emotions. But while she&#8217;s at the hospital Briddey starts unexpectedly communicating telepathically with CB, a colleague at work. Meanwhile, her company needs to come up with something new to compete with Apple&#8217;s new phone.<\/p>\n<p>This story has the subtle humour you expect from Willis&#8217;s books. It&#8217;s about unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 11 books by Willis. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/all-clear\/\"><strong>All Clear<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Marie Claire thought he spent too much time on his smartphone (and not enough listening to her fret about Maeve), Kathleen thought he was too rich and good-looking to still be single and therefore had to be hiding something, and even Maeve, who usually sided with Briddey in family debates, had made a face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-12937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12954,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions\/12954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}