{"id":31,"date":"2008-03-02T11:08:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2009-04-07T05:43:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T12:43:05","slug":"slow-death-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Slow death in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From last December through this February, I only read Spanish.  I started a few novels and a few political volumes, but I actually finished (and enjoyed!) this novel by Guillermo Martinez from Argentina.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061565512?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=relaxandhavef-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061565512\">La Muerte Lenta de Luciana B.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=relaxandhavef-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061565512\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> is a very creepy psychological thriller.   I read it in Quito, while Ramona and I were down there in January.   I felt like I was watching a Hitchcock movie the whole time I was reading it.  One of Martinez&#8217; earlier novels has been converted to a movie, so maybe I&#8217;ll be able to watch this one one day too.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t critique this novel here, since my reading of it was as slow as Luciana&#8217;s death itself.  Beats me about the actual pacing and style of the book.  I just know that the story was great and suspenseful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From last December through this February, I only read Spanish. I started a few novels and a few political volumes, but I actually finished (and enjoyed!) this novel by Guillermo Martinez from Argentina. La Muerte Lenta de Luciana B. is a very creepy psychological thriller. I read it in Quito, while Ramona and I were [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[17,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}