{"id":1348,"date":"2017-07-03T07:43:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T07:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2017-07-03T07:43:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T07:43:50","slug":"resurrection-blues-by-michael-poore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/resurrection-blues-by-michael-poore\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrection Blues, by Michael Poore"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re one of my long-time readers who remember back to the Sane Magazine<\/a> days, you will probably, without a doubt, love Michael Poore’s Resurrection Blues<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I got a copy of this book from NetGalley<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(free books, how can you go wrong!).<\/a><\/p>\n

And Resurrection Blues<\/a><\/em> blew my socks off. It blew them off, chewed them up, spat them out, and then stomped on them, kicked them around the house (which is a difficult thing to do, kicking socks), until my socks were laid to rest in the dirty clothes hamper in the back kitchen.<\/p>\n

This was surprisingly aggressive for a novel to do, but this was a surprising novel. I was expecting a fun, lighthearted romp, but I got something that was fun, lighthearted and just so, so, so jealousy-inducingly good. It’s a love story, a parable, a shaggy dog story. I thought Milo and his ten thousand lives were a brilliant story, his love affair with Suzie touching and incandescent. Michael Poore dances along a tightrope of humor, weighty topics, and absurdity like the very best of Christopher Moore’s A-game, Tom Robbins, David Mitchell, or Kurt Vonnegut. He takes elements of the spiritual, science fiction, and good, old down and dirty humanity and smashes them all together in a brilliant book. I could have spent another couple lifetimes reading about Milo and his quest for Perfection.<\/p>\n

It has that incongruous touch that Sane Magazine used to have in the horoscopes and main issue and it never, ever misses a beat (something which I don’t think can be said about Sane). At any rate, while you’re waiting (very patiently, at this stage) for Trip the the Quiet Room<\/em><\/a> to come out, instead of twiddling your thumbs you can go pre-order your copy of\u00c2\u00a0Resurrection Blues<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0and get it at the end of August! Not bad…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re one of my long-time readers who remember back to the Sane Magazine days, you will probably, without a doubt, love Michael Poore’s Resurrection Blues. I got a copy of this book from NetGalley\u00c2\u00a0(free books, how can you go wrong!). And Resurrection Blues blew my socks off. It blew them off, chewed them up, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-sane-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}