{"id":20636,"date":"2023-09-05T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20636"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:38:16","slug":"book-41-of-52-flux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/book-41-of-52-flux\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 41 (of 52) &#8211; Flux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20637\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/flux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20637\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/flux.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/flux.jpg 331w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/flux-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flux &#8211; Jinwoo Chong<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Flux<\/em>, the debut novel from Jinwoo Chong, features three main characters: Bo, a young boy who has just lost his mother in a tragic accident, Brandon, pushing thirty and just laid off from his publishing job, and Blue, survivor of a criminal tech startup that has stolen his voice.\u00a0 Eventually, we learn all three are the same person, and he has gained the ability to travel through time.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really remember how this book landed on my radar.\u00a0 It took me a while to get into it, as the beginning chapters, jumping between the three &#8220;characters&#8221;, were kind of hard to follow.\u00a0 The story eventually picks up, even if it never makes a whole lot of sense.\u00a0 There were some interesting ideas here, but, at the end of the day, I found the execution to be a little lacking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flux, the debut novel from Jinwoo Chong, features three main characters: Bo, a young boy who has just lost his mother in a tragic accident, Brandon, pushing thirty and just laid off from his publishing job, and Blue, survivor of a criminal tech startup that has stolen his voice.\u00a0 Eventually, we learn all three are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10760,10761],"class_list":["post-20636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-flux","tag-jinwoo-chong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20638,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20636\/revisions\/20638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}