{"id":2380,"date":"2010-06-22T05:49:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T21:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2010-06-22T05:49:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T21:49:56","slug":"2380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2010\/06\/22\/2380\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I finished reading Amelia Beamer<\/a>‘s The Loving Dead<\/a><\/em> and I really enjoyed it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a romantic comedy (sort of) featuring zombies, zeppelins, and employees from a popular U.S. retail chain<\/a>. There are all sorts of reasons I liked it so much. Some are probably unique to me, but some aren’t. The book is funny, sexy and a bit off-putting at times (there are flesh-eating zombies here, after all). It’s also, for me, a real trip down memory lane. Part of the story is set in a friend’s house where\u00c2\u00a0 I used to spend a lot of time and part of it in an area of Oakland where I lived for a year. It’s also told in Amelia’s voice. I can hear her reading this out loud, telling the jokes that her lead character tells, and being brave and kick-ass in pretty much the same way.\u00c2\u00a0 Those personal things only add, though, to what is a very good first novel.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if you’ve never been in the Oakland hills, wandered through Piedmont, or worked in a retail outlet, The Loving Dead<\/a><\/em> has a lot to offer you.\u00c2\u00a0 Highly recommended. (You can read the book online for free now at ameliabeamer.com<\/a>, but you’re going to want to own your own copy – trust me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I finished reading Amelia Beamer‘s The Loving Dead and I really enjoyed it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a romantic comedy (sort of) featuring zombies, zeppelins, and employees from a popular U.S. retail chain. There are all sorts of reasons I liked it so much. Some are probably unique to me, but some aren’t. The book is … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}