{"id":564,"date":"2005-05-25T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/05\/25\/benicio-del-toro-is-emilio-sandoz\/"},"modified":"2005-05-25T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T00:29:00","slug":"benicio-del-toro-is-emilio-sandoz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/564","title":{"rendered":"Benicio Del Toro IS Emilio Sandoz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As every reader knows, there&#8217;s a turning point in each good novel when the author has you hooked. We&#8217;ve just reached it with<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookclubs.ca\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=0449912558&amp;view=rg\">The Sparrow<\/a>. I say &#8220;we&#8221; because Dana and I are taking turns reading it to each other aloud. Bob and Carol gave us this idea a while back. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readinggroupguides.com\/guides\/cold_mountain.asp\">Cold Mountain<\/a> was perfect for it, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomwolfe.com\/ManinFull.html\">A Man in Full<\/a> was a hoot. Not every work lends itself to the practice, so we&#8217;ve had a few false starts. Inevitably we &#8220;cast&#8221; the main characters like a motion picture, so we can concur on physical appearance and general persona. Ethan Hawke as Inman and Ashley Judd as Ruby were engraved in the imagination before Hollywood made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0159365\/\">its own choices<\/a>, and now I&#8217;m certain that only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000161\/\">Salma Hayek<\/a> could portray Sofia Mendes. Brendan recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/chapter\/sparrow.htm\">The Sparrow<\/a> to his mom (my sister Joan), and she enjoyed it so much we borrowed it next. Bruce will want to read it when we finish. I already know that I&#8217;ll immediately want to start again from the beginning, but we&#8217;ll probably go find a copy of Mary Doria Russell&#8217;s sequel instead&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/literati.net\/Russell\/RussellBooks.htm\">Children of God<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As every reader knows, there&#8217;s a turning point in each good novel when the author has you hooked. We&#8217;ve just reached it with The Sparrow. I say &#8220;we&#8221; because Dana and I are taking turns reading it to each other aloud. Bob and Carol gave us this idea a while back. Cold Mountain was perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12,18,42,22,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}