{"id":748,"date":"2008-02-05T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=748"},"modified":"2008-02-05T19:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T19:00:24","slug":"a_la_nick_hornb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/a_la_nick_hornb.html","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 la Nick Hornby, books in\/books out for January."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Bought:<\/u><br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI>Matthew Eck &#8220;The Farther Shore&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Bill Holm &#8220;The Windows of Brimnes&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Vendela Vida &#8220;Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethcrane.com\/blog\/index.html\">Elizabeth Crane <\/a>&#8220;You Must Be This Happy to Enter&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Paul Park &#8220;A Princess of Roumania&#8221; (sci fi\/fantasy)<br \/>\n<LI>Walter Mosley &#8220;Fortunate Son&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Elliot Perlman &#8220;Three Dollars&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Robert Hass &#8220;Time and Materials&#8221; (poems 1997-2005)<br \/>\n<LI>Making Out in Japanese<br \/>\n<LI>Patricia Briggs &#8220;Iron Kissed&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Pat Barker &#8220;Life Class&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Zachary Lazar &#8220;Sway&#8221;<\/UL><br \/>\n<u>Read:<\/u><br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI>Nick Hornby &#8220;Housekeeping vs. the Dirt&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>The Oxford Book of Short Stories, edited by A.S. Byatt<br \/>\n<LI>Natasha Trethewy &#8220;Native Guard&#8221; (poetry)<br \/>\n<LI>Adrian McKinty &#8220;Dead I Well May Be&#8221; (library book of Silvia&#8217;s)<br \/>\n<LI>Walter Mosley &#8220;Fortunate Son&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Denis Johnson &#8220;Tree of Smoke&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethcrane.com\/blog\/index.html\">Elizabeth Crane <\/a>&#8220;You Must Be This Happy to Enter&#8221;<\/UL><br \/>\nI have yet to write up a single book I read in January.  Perhaps later this week.  <em>Perhaps<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought: Matthew Eck &#8220;The Farther Shore&#8221; Bill Holm &#8220;The Windows of Brimnes&#8221; Vendela Vida &#8220;Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name&#8221; Elizabeth Crane &#8220;You Must Be This Happy to Enter&#8221; Paul Park &#8220;A Princess of Roumania&#8221; (sci fi\/fantasy) Walter Mosley &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/a_la_nick_hornb.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":[13,38,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hornby-esque","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}