{"id":3280,"date":"2019-08-17T12:20:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2019-08-17T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T19:20:31","slug":"book-club-city-of-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/book-club-city-of-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club:  City of Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/city-of-ink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3281 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/city-of-ink-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/city-of-ink-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/city-of-ink.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>Our September book club will meet Thursday, September 19, 6 p.m at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/category\/Family-Style-Restaurant\/Classic-Cup-Cafe-121251411292578\/\">Classic Cup Cafe<\/a>.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be reading Elsa Hart\u2019s <em>City of Ink.\u00a0 <\/em>It\u2019s available on our store page at a discount. The publisher\u2019s description:<\/p>\n<p>Following the 18th century Chinese mysteries\u00a0<em>Jade Dragon Mountain<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>White Mirror<\/em>, comes the next Li Du adventure in\u00a0<em>City of Ink<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Li Du was prepared to travel anywhere in the world except for one place: home. But to unravel the mystery that surrounds his mentor\u2019s execution, that\u2019s exactly where he must go.<\/p>\n<p>Plunged into the painful memories and teeming streets of Beijing, Li Du obtains a humble clerkship that offers anonymity and access to the records he needs. He is beginning to make progress when his search for answers buried in the past is interrupted by murder in the present.<\/p>\n<p>The wife of a local factory owner is found dead, along with a man who appears to have been her lover, and the most likely suspect is the husband. But what Li Du\u2019s superiors at the North Borough Office are willing to accept as a crime of passion strikes Li Du as something more calculated. As past and present intertwine, Li Du\u2019s investigations reveal that many of Beijing\u2019s residents \u2015 foreign and Chinese, artisan and official, scholar and soldier \u2015 have secrets they would kill to protect.<\/p>\n<p>When the threats begin, Li Du must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice to discover the truth in a city bent on concealing it, a city where the stroke of a brush on paper can alter the past, change the future, prolong a life, or end one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our September book club will meet Thursday, September 19, 6 p.m at the Classic Cup Cafe.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be reading Elsa Hart\u2019s City of Ink.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on our store page at a discount. The publisher\u2019s description: Following the 18th century Chinese mysteries\u00a0Jade Dragon Mountain\u00a0and\u00a0White Mirror, comes the next Li Du adventure in\u00a0City of Ink. Li &#8230; <a title=\"Book Club:  City of Ink\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/book-club-city-of-ink\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Book Club:  City of Ink\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[202,201,200,10,11,203],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","tag-18th-century-china","tag-city-of-ink","tag-elsa-hart","tag-historical","tag-international","tag-li-du"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3282,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}