{"id":19967,"date":"2022-10-30T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T01:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19967"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:29:33","slug":"the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Thousand Doors of January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;It was like an earthquake that didn&#8217;t disturb a single blade of grass, an eclipse that didn&#8217;t cast a single shadow, a vast but invisible change. A sudden breeze plucked the edge of the diary. It smelled of salt and warm stone and a dozen faraway scents that did not belong in a scrubby field beside the Mississippi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ten Thousand Doors of January<\/strong> by Alix E. Harrow, published in 2019<\/p>\n<p>When January was a young girl she found a Door to another place. She returned through it immediately and by the time she came back it was gone. She spent the next few years trying to be the girl that her guardian wanted her to be. Years later she receives a book titled <strong>The Ten Thousand Doors<\/strong>, in which a young girl comes across a boy who had come through a Door.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about people who want to open doors, and people who want to close them.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the well worn premise, Harrow crafts a story that&#8217;s new and refreshing &#8212; it&#8217;s a masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>One more quotation: &#8220;There&#8217;s only one way to run away from your own story, and that&#8217;s to sneak into someone else&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st book I&#8217;ve read by Harrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;It was like an earthquake that didn&#8217;t disturb a single blade of grass, an eclipse that didn&#8217;t cast a single shadow, a vast but invisible change. A sudden breeze plucked the edge of the diary. It smelled of salt and warm stone and a dozen faraway scents that did not belong in a scrubby [&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":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-19967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967","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=19967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19975,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967\/revisions\/19975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}