{"id":3339,"date":"2019-01-03T12:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2019-01-07T19:38:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T01:38:50","slug":"rooster-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2019\/01\/rooster-update-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Rooster Update #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You may remember a few weeks ago I told you about my goal<\/a> to read all the books that will be appearing on the brackets in The Morning News 2019 Tournament of Books<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far I’ve read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Parking Lot Attendance, by Nafkote Tamirat<\/strong>. A young Ethiopian girl and her father move to the mysterious island of B— from Boston, the narratives flips back and forth in time to tell how they got there, why, etc. I thought this was certainly well written and interesting. But I would only rate it probably a 3 out of 5 stars. It’s weird, it leaves a lot of things uncertain, and I wasn’t really sure what the ultimate point was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje<\/strong>. Two kids are mysteriously abandoned by their parents in their London home at the end of World War II. This started really slow for me, at first I wasn’t even sure who the narrator was. But as it went on, it really sucked me in. It’s a very languid novel, it moves slow, glacially, like pouring out a jar of molasses, but as the layers build it gets more, and more, and more satisfying. I really loved it in the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I’m reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Terrible Country, by Keith Gessen<\/strong>, about a pseudo-academic who moves home to Russia to help care for his grandmother. It’s got some funny moments and some interesting ones, but so far almost nothing has really happened. It’s basically a disgruntled guy just going about his disgruntled life. At first I thought that was all setup…now I’m wondering if my expectations of a plot are too much for this book. We’ll see! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may remember a few weeks ago I told you about my goal to read all the books that will be appearing on the brackets in The Morning News 2019 Tournament of Books. So far I’ve read: The Parking Lot … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-rooster-tob"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}