{"id":423,"date":"2015-10-25T21:19:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T01:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/?p=423"},"modified":"2015-10-25T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T01:42:56","slug":"overlooked-in-the-library-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Overlooked in the Library: Anne Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[reviews of books in our meetinghouse library]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Listed Under: Fiction<\/p>\n<p>Author: Anne Rice<\/p>\n<p>Title(s):<br \/>\n<strong><em>Christ the Lord &#8211; Out of Egypt<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Christ the Lord &#8211; Road to Cana<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After winning fame and fortune writing tales of evildoers in her fabulously successful\u00a0 <em>Vampire<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Chronicles,\u00a0<\/em> Anne Rice goes back to her Christian roots and spins very compelling tales, based on the<br \/>\nGospels and Biblical scholarship, to tell parts of the life of Jesus not included in the Bible. And as if that<br \/>\nweren&#8217;t enough of a challenge, she writes the two books in the first person, in Jesus&#8217; voice. Her triumph is<br \/>\nthat while accepting as fact that Jesus was God Incarnate, Rice smoothly and skillfully presents Him as<br \/>\nthoroughly human.<\/p>\n<p>While the Bible jumps from Jesus as a newborn to the twelve-year-old questioning the scholars in the<br \/>\ntemple, the first of the two books, <em>Christ the Lord &#8211; Out of Egypt<\/em> shows us a seven-year-old boy traveling<br \/>\nwith his family,\u00a0 hiding in Egypt, and returning home to Nazareth. He lives the typical day-to-day life of a child at that<br \/>\ntime and place. But at the same time, he is trying to understand the frightening power He has to make miracles<br \/>\nand trying to learn who He truly is.<\/p>\n<p>In the second book in the series, <em>Christ the Lord &#8211; Road to Cana,<\/em> we meet Jesus as a young man of<br \/>\nabout thirty years, struggling with family drama and tormented by His love for a young woman.<br \/>\nWe follow Him from his baptism by John, to the wedding where he performs what the Gospels record as his<br \/>\nfirst miracle, to when He completely accepts who He truly is and begins His Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with Rice&#8217;s work, you&#8217;re in for a surprise as she changes her writing style to one<br \/>\nmuch more clean and simple, almost austere. Whether you&#8217;re familiar with her other work or not, you&#8217;re in<br \/>\nfor a treat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[reviews of books in our meetinghouse library] Listed Under: Fiction Author: Anne Rice Title(s): Christ the Lord &#8211; Out of Egypt Christ the Lord &#8211; Road to Cana After winning&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,76,38,72,74,25,71],"tags":[70,65,69,67,64],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anne-rice","category-book-reviews","category-education-and-outreach","category-fiction","category-jesus","category-meetinghouse","category-meetinghouse-library","tag-anne-rice","tag-book-reviews","tag-fiction","tag-jesus","tag-meetinghouse-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}