{"id":521,"date":"2001-03-11T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2001-03-11T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=521"},"modified":"2001-03-11T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2001-03-11T10:43:44","slug":"yesterday-i-finished-reading-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2001\/03\/11\/yesterday-i-finished-reading-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday, I finished reading A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0747259674\/qid=984311357\/sr=1-1\/026-6978080-8827620\"><i>A Sweetheart Deal<\/i><\/a> and cried for most of the last two chapters. It&#8217;s a brilliant book, certainly Ben Richards&#8217; best so far. If you haven&#8217;t bought it and read it yet, go and get it now. Sorry &#8211; you can&#8217;t borrow my copy as I&#8217;ve loaned it to Fi.<br \/>\nInevitably, as soon as I&#8217;d finished it and got through an entire pack of Kleenex (I&#8217;m *such* a softy), I zipped down to Waterstones in search of new entertainment, and emerged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099283360\/qid=984311248\/sr=1-1\/026-6978080-8827620\"><i>Atomised<\/i> by Michel Houellebecq<\/a>. Any book which has a picture of a near-naked woman on the cover and is described by the Independent as &#8220;gloriously, extravagantly filthy&#8221; has to be worth a look. Seriously though, I read his previous novel (<i>Whatever<\/i>) and enjoyed that, and this book focuses on relationships and interaction with the world &#8211; which if you have looked at the novels I&#8217;ve been reading in the last few months, you&#8217;ll know is a theme I&#8217;m always returning to. Will report back as I progress through the pages.<br \/>\nBut do go and buy that Ben Richards book  &#8230; no, now! go on&#8230;! go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I finished reading A Sweetheart Deal and cried for most of the last two chapters. It&#8217;s a brilliant book, certainly Ben Richards&#8217; best so far. If you haven&#8217;t bought it and read it yet, go and get it now. Sorry &#8211; you can&#8217;t borrow my copy as I&#8217;ve loaned it to Fi. Inevitably, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}