{"id":32153,"date":"2019-09-17T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=32153"},"modified":"2019-09-17T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:32:02","slug":"new-book-a-wild-tumultory-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/17\/new-book-a-wild-tumultory-library\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: A Wild Tumultory Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just published, Mark Valentine&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2AtuQcQ\">A Wild Tumultory Library<\/a><\/em> is a 350-page collection of a wealth of short essays on the most obscure &#8216;forgotten&#8217; writers, books, and a few bookshops &mdash; with what appears to be a strong British focus.  A small sampling of the many titles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Palace of Isis: A Note on Elizabeth Bowen\u2019s \u2018Mysterious Kor\u2019. [1940s, so not an influence on Tolkien&#8217;s Kor]<\/p>\n<p>Pagan Mysteries in the Novels of P.M. Hubbard.<\/p>\n<p>Some Books on Tea Cup Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Modern Ghosts: The Macabre Fiction of L.P. Hartley.<\/p>\n<p>The Ancient Art: The Tales of A.E. Coppard.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Great-Nephew to the Queen of Faerie\u2019: A Note on the Grindletonians.<\/p>\n<p>Zodiacs in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>At the Sign of the Black Pterodactyl: George Hay and Books of \u2018Some Other Dimension\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just published, Mark Valentine&#8217;s A Wild Tumultory Library is a 350-page collection of a wealth of short essays on the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/17\/new-book-a-wild-tumultory-library\/\">Continue reading <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":[8,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}