{"id":1768,"date":"2008-04-17T19:35:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T00:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2008\/o-jerusalem-by-laurie-r-king\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T19:48:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T00:48:38","slug":"o-jerusalem-by-laurie-r-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2008\/o-jerusalem-by-laurie-r-king\/","title":{"rendered":"O Jerusalem,<\/i> by Laurie R. King"},"content":{"rendered":"

One way that I can tell I’m caring for my _second_ baby is that I’m not constantly reading parenting books while I’m nursing. This frees up a bit of time for some non-baby-related reading, which is quite refreshing after a day of full of diapers, string cheese, and the exclamation, “No like it!” <\/p>\n

O Jerusalem, by Laurie R. King<\/a><\/p>\n

My current nursing book: _O Jerusalem_ , by Laurie R. King. This is actually the fifth book in her Mary Russell series, which I’ve been enjoying over the past few years. The series begins with “_The Beekeeper’s Apprentice_”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312427360\/octothorppres-20, when Mary is a teenager and encounters an older, retired Sherlock Holmes who has taken up beekeeping in his later years. They are both perceptive, brilliant, and ornery, and they strike up a mentoring relationship. Mary grows and becomes a true colleague of Holmes’, and the rest of the series chronicles various cases they undertake together.<\/p>\n

_O Jerusalem_ takes place in Palestine in 1918, with Mary disguised as an Arab youth, accompanying Holmes on an adventure with two Bedouin spies.<\/p>\n

These novels are fabulous — well-written, exciting, and not too gory or frightening. They are just right for a nursing mom who wants to wind down with something totally unrelated to her current life at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

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Considered in this review: “_O Jerusalem_”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553581058\/octothorppres-20, by Laurie R. King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One way that I can tell I’m caring for my _second_ baby is that I’m not constantly reading parenting books while I’m nursing. This frees up a bit of time for some non-baby-related reading, which is quite refreshing after a day of full of diapers, string cheese, and the exclamation, “No like it!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}