{"id":284,"date":"2014-03-17T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/17\/new-white-sandals-a-memoir-by-toula-siakotos\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:19","slug":"new-white-sandals-a-memoir-by-toula-siakotos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/new-white-sandals-a-memoir-by-toula-siakotos\/","title":{"rendered":"New White Sandals: A Memoir by Toula Siakotos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moving on from monsters to something quite different, <i>New White Sandals <\/i>is more like a painting than an actual novel. The  conversational style, together with diary-like passages, does not build  up to suspenseful, page-turning climaxes, nor does it challenge the  reader with difficult questions about existence and\/or morality.  Instead, it presents a painting, which can then be appreciated by the  reader on whatever level that most suits him or her. The many characters are  skilfully presented but are loosely drawn, and, perhaps because of the  relative shortness of the book and\/or because of the number of  characters introduced, none of them &#8211; with, perhaps, the exception of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newwhitesandals.com\/#!bio\/c1ktj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toula Siakotos<\/a> herself &#8211; really stand out. However, I do not feel that  this is negative; in fact, given the painterly nature of the book, I  feel that it actually works quite well. The book is easy to read, and it  gives a lot of incidental information about what it must have been  like, living in a small village in Greece during the 1940s and 1950s. Worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iHAcoBm7L3M\/UxgAlJFxeMI\/AAAAAAAABM8\/8LEV-pa4p6Y\/s1600\/aeee85_4a666d3e62360024e256abc9024b5717.jpg_srz_270_400_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz.jpeg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iHAcoBm7L3M\/UxgAlJFxeMI\/AAAAAAAABM8\/8LEV-pa4p6Y\/s1600\/aeee85_4a666d3e62360024e256abc9024b5717.jpg_srz_270_400_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz.jpeg\" height=\"200\" width=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The photo was taken from the website: <a href=\"http:\/\/ri.search.yahoo.com\/_ylt=AwrTcXg_ABhTtuAAsiOjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBtdXBkbHJyBHNlYwNmcC1hdHRyaWIEc2xrA3J1cmw-\/RV=2\/RE=1394110655\/RO=11\/RU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newwhitesandals.com%2F%23%21bio%2Fc1ktj\/RK=0\/RS=v361iReirkEUJkGWcXmUVDbDdUE-\">www.newwhitesandals.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving on from monsters to something quite different, New White Sandals is more like a painting than an actual novel. The conversational style, together with diary-like passages, does not build up to suspenseful, page-turning climaxes, nor does it challenge the reader with difficult questions about existence and\/or morality. Instead, it presents a painting, which can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/new-white-sandals-a-memoir-by-toula-siakotos\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}