{"id":172,"date":"2006-08-09T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=172"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:46:22","slug":"kcrws_bookworm_-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/08\/kcrws_bookworm_-3.html","title":{"rendered":"KCRW&#8217;s Bookworm: David Mitchell (7\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technically my iPod has now played this podcast five or six times, as I was using it to fall asleep to over the weekend.  Ah, the dulcent sounds of Michael Silverblatt&#8217;s voice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as you should know if you read <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/readin.html\">my most important web postings<\/A>, &#8220;Black Swan Green&#8221; is one of the best (if not THE best) books I&#8217;ve read thus far this year.  David Mitchell was very enjoyable to listen to.  He seems very meek and British, yet willing to laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his favorite authors:  Charles Dickens, Dostoevsky, Ursula LeGuin (oh, I used to read TONS of her&#8230;).  Also mentions specifically <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.brothersjudd.com\/index.cfm\/fuseaction\/reviews.detail\/book_id\/328\">Fournier&#8217;s &#8220;The Wanderer&#8221;<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>Some neat moments when Mitchell and Silverblatt discuss the magic of life, of love, and of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically my iPod has now played this podcast five or six times, as I was using it to fall asleep to over the weekend. Ah, the dulcent sounds of Michael Silverblatt&#8217;s voice&#8230; Anyway, as you should know if you read &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/08\/kcrws_bookworm_-3.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}