{"id":7768,"date":"2013-06-26T22:25:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T02:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2013-07-03T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T02:28:47","slug":"review-seven-viking-romances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2013\/06\/26\/review-seven-viking-romances\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Seven Viking Romances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/462579\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"Seven Viking Romances\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1174961814m\/462579.jpg?resize=104%2C160\" width=\"104\" height=\"160\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/462579\">Seven Viking Romances<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/62178\">Hermann P\u00c3\u00a1lsson<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/223611630\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple girls gave me funny looks and asked about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Romance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the title. So I explained this is romance as in heroic sagas of mighty warriors committing supernatural deeds. (Okay, so I glossed over these same warriors impregnating every woman in their path.) Not muscular men seducing women.<\/p>\n<p>Until it was. Somewhere around 200 pages in one of the heroes uses an obvious euphemism for what is between his legs to seduce a girl. And then another euphemism on another girl. I could not believe it. Scandinavian romance novel in both senses.<\/p>\n<p>The stories were amusing and fast. But then I like stuff about Odysseus, Beowulf, and Gilgamesh. And the fictional Conan.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. It seems like everyone is related to someone named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Grim\u00e2\u20ac\u009d though. Is that the John of Scandinavia?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/223611630\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Viking Romances\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Hermann P\u00c3\u00a1lsson My rating:\u00c2\u00a04 of 5 stars A couple girls gave me funny looks and asked about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Romance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the title. So I explained this is romance as in heroic sagas of mighty warriors committing supernatural deeds. (Okay, so I glossed over these same warriors impregnating every woman in their path.) Not muscular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Review: Seven Viking Romances","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256],"tags":[2706,2704,1104,2607,1609,2705],"class_list":["post-7768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-book-review","tag-heroes","tag-mythology","tag-posted-2013","tag-swords","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-21i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}