{"id":751,"date":"2008-02-06T17:59:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=751"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:39:02","slug":"essays_housekee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/essays_housekee.html","title":{"rendered":"Essays: &#8220;Housekeeping vs. the Dirt&#8221; by Nick Hornby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hornby&#8217;s second &#8220;anthology&#8221; of his monthly book review essays in The Believer (the first was &#8220;The Polysyllabic Spree&#8221; which<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/readin.html\"> I commented on briefly back in 2005<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t always agree with his reviews, or I might not be interested in a particular book that he&#8217;s reading, I usually enjoy the tone of these write ups.  The random associations that come about between books you didn&#8217;t expect to resonate with each other; the twists and turns that lead you off in a random direction, far from your original plans; and the pure joy when a book hits you in just the perfect moment for you and that book to collide.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to his comments, adding to my possibly to be read list (as opposed to the actual to be read pile of things already purchased or borrowed):<\/p>\n<p><UL type=\"square\"><LI>&#8220;Every Secret Thing&#8221; Laura Lippman (fiction)<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Blood Done Sign My Name&#8221; Timothy B. Tyson (memoir)<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Oh the Glory of It All&#8221; Sean Wilsey (memoir)<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;What Good Are the Arts?&#8221; John Carey (nonfiction)<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Death and the Penguin&#8221; Andrey Kurkov (fiction)<br \/>\n<LI>Joshua Ferris &#8220;Then We Came to the End&#8221; (fiction) (this one&#8217;s been reviewed all over in the past year, but this is the first review to make me think Hmmmmm)<\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hornby&#8217;s second &#8220;anthology&#8221; of his monthly book review essays in The Believer (the first was &#8220;The Polysyllabic Spree&#8221; which I commented on briefly back in 2005). While I don&#8217;t always agree with his reviews, or I might not be interested &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/essays_housekee.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":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}