{"id":12,"date":"2014-09-04T23:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T23:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviews.wheelerc.org\/?p=12"},"modified":"2014-09-04T23:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T23:04:33","slug":"madame-picasso-by-anne-girard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/2014\/09\/04\/madame-picasso-by-anne-girard\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Picasso by Anne Girard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madame Picasso is . . . Cute. It\u2019s enjoyable. It is not deep. It does not leave a lasting impression.<br \/>\nIt is well written and a quick read but it does not rise above the mediocre. I do not doubt it was never meant to rise above the mediocre.<br \/>\nSince it seems necessary for a plot synopsis you, the reader, has already read: here you go. Picasso\u2019s one true love, Eva Gouel, from her first time in Paris to her untimely death.<br \/>\nThe book\u2019s main problem is its length. It does not need to be 400 pages, short as those pages are. In the middle, it starts to drag quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p><em>This book was received, free of charge, from the Goodreads First Reads program.<br \/>\nAll quotes are taken from an advance uncorrected proof of the book and may, or may not, reflect the final commercial edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/985983083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madame Picasso is . . . Cute. It\u2019s enjoyable. It is not deep. It does not leave a lasting impression. It is well written and a quick read but it does not rise above the mediocre. I do not doubt it was never meant to rise above the mediocre. Since it seems necessary for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","category-historical-fiction","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelerc.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}