{"id":14359,"date":"2015-03-05T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14359"},"modified":"2015-03-05T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T23:01:23","slug":"book-report-curse-of-the-gypsy-woman-by-lin-g-hill-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/05\/book-report-curse-of-the-gypsy-woman-by-lin-g-hill-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Curse of the Gypsy Woman<\/i> by Lin G. Hill (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/curseofthegypsywoman.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a>This book is a chapbook containing a single short story by a local author; I think I have one of his full length works here somewhere.  I must have gotten this book in a package of books for a buck at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County book sale.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, in this story, an author with writer&#8217;s block and a looming deadline agrees to take a quick vacation to a random spot on a map, and he ends up renting a car and driving with his wife into the Ozarks.  They pull off the highway where a sign promises a restaurant and a place to stay, but the road turns to a dirt road.  They pass an old gypsy woman and do not give her a ride, which leads to her placing a curse upon them.  When they reach the ramshackle inn, they find it&#8217;s run by gypsies, and they&#8217;re kidnapped and taken to a hidden gypsy camp where they are locked in a ramshacklier shanty on the Night of the Wolf.  And werewolves attack, and they survive.  BECAUSE THEY&#8217;RE NOW CURSED WITH LYCANTHROPY.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty basic story, and not a very good one.  But it hearkens back to a time of less cellular coverage and fewer smartphones.  In a more deft storytelling, this might not have been quite so disparate, the distance between then and now, but reading it left a lot of brainpower for thinking about other things instead of the primary text.<\/p>\n<p>Geez, Charles, I hope this isn&#8217;t your brother I&#8217;m pooh-poohing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a chapbook containing a single short story by a local author; I think I have one of his full length works here somewhere. I must have gotten this book in a package of books for a buck at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County book sale. At any rate, in this story, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14361,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359\/revisions\/14361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}