{"id":29629,"date":"2015-07-18T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29629"},"modified":"2015-07-17T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T03:00:46","slug":"books-are-a-true-kind-of-magic-kate-forsyth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/books-are-a-true-kind-of-magic-kate-forsyth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Books Are A True Kind Of Magic&#8221; &#8212; Kate Forsyth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/books-are-a-true-kind-of-magic-kate-forsyth\/bitter-greens-high-resolution_new\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29630\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Bitter-Greens-high-resolution_New.jpg\" alt=\"Bitter-Greens-high-resolution_New\" width=\"151\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Bitter-Greens-high-resolution_New.jpg 151w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Bitter-Greens-high-resolution_New-98x150.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Books are\u00a0 magical gateway to other worlds and other times. For a while you walk around in someone else&#8217;s shoes, and you travel their journey of discovery with them. When you come back to your own body, in your own place and time, you have changed. You have grown. So books are a true kind of magic.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateforsyth.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Forsyth\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author of <strong><em>Bitter Greens<\/em><\/strong> (among many other works), winner of the ALA (American Library Association) Award for Best Historical Novel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29607\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/daughter-of-blood-the-wall-of-night-book-three-uk-cover-revealed\/daughter-of-blood-by-helen-lowe\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29607\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\" wp-image-29607\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png\" alt=\"UK-Aus-NZ\" width=\"165\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-95x150.png 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-650x1024.png 650w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe.png 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK-Aus-NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And, of course, my own &#8216;true kind of magic&#8217; came this week with the UK cover for <strong><em>Daughter Of Blood<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Of Night <\/a>Book Three<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Books are\u00a0 magical gateway to other worlds and other times. For a while you walk around in someone else&#8217;s shoes, and you travel their journey of discovery with them. When you come back to your own body, in your own place and time, you have changed. You have grown. So books are a true kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29635,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629\/revisions\/29635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}