{"id":44,"date":"2013-05-28T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/?p=44"},"modified":"2013-05-28T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:30:26","slug":"jen-reads-junius-and-albert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2013\/05\/28\/jen-reads-junius-and-albert\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen reads: Junius and Albert&#8217;s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16043518-junius-and-albert-s-adventures-in-the-confederacy\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1363657553m\/16043518.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16043518-junius-and-albert-s-adventures-in-the-confederacy\">Junius and Albert&#8217;s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/798659.Peter_Carlson\">Peter Carlson<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/535848779\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Civil War is endlessly fascinating to me, so I was happy to pick up this book. Junius and Albert&#8217;s story was engrossing, even though you knew they would escape their prison(s)&#8211;it&#8217;s right there in the blurb, after all. But the author did a remarkable job of pulling primary sources into a coherent narrative. The pair did encounter some horrific obstacles, and to read the stories of their fellow prison inmates was awful. Of course, there is some levity and not a little bit of courage on display. This book reads almost like an action novel; the pair aren&#8217;t continuously running for their lives, but there&#8217;s always something waiting to make their lives more difficult, and you can&#8217;t help but root for them to make it out alive. The author did a very good job of characterizing Albert and Junius so they were more than the letters they wrote to their families and their newspaper employers. I had no idea this particular bit of history existed, but I was glad to make its acquaintance.<\/p>\n<p>I received this as a digital ARC from Netgalley and the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/76111-jennifer\">View all my reviews<\/a><br \/>\n[amazon asin=1610391543&amp;text=See book on Amazon]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junius and Albert&#8217;s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Civil War is endlessly fascinating to me, so I <a href=\"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2013\/05\/28\/jen-reads-junius-and-albert\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,33,43,45],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","tag-civil-war","tag-history","tag-netgalley","tag-nonfiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}