{"id":576,"date":"2007-02-27T18:32:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T23:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/27\/books-recs-from-a-well-read-friend\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T18:32:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T23:32:48","slug":"books-recs-from-a-well-read-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"books rec's from a well-read friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesdays Bella likes to go home and sleepover at her friend’s house;\u00c2\u00a0 a friend who has TV reception, so that they can watch Desperate Housewives<\/em> and Gilmore Girls<\/em> (saved by TiBo). I’ve never watched Desperate Housewives<\/em> myself, but I have gathered from various raised eyebrows that it is one of the racier T.V. shows going. I know that I have a rep as being a T.V. prude, but you know what? I am fine with just letting her watch what (supposedly) everybody else watches one night a week.<\/p>\n

So, Tuesdays have become my writing days. I shoot home from work – get that puppy outside for a spell, make a cup of earl grey and get settled in front of the computer. And impose a one post for one hour of thesis work rule. And one post before I start working, just to get it out of my system.<\/p>\n

I asked my friend Laura for some book recommendations, because sooner or later I will have to choose a book for the book club (and remember, it has to be a book I’ve never read). Laura was my childhood best friend from third to seventh grade; and I don’t know if I trust anybody’s opinion on books more. (We were such crazy book worms that we spent our summers having reading contests<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Her rec’s:<\/p>\n

Housekeeping<\/em><\/strong> by Marilyn Robinson (she says, if she wrote only one book as good as this one, she would be satisfied…)<\/p>\n

Brick Lane<\/em><\/strong> or Alentejo Blue<\/em><\/strong> by Monica Ali (she knows I’m sucker for the Booker prize winners)<\/p>\n

The Virgin Suicides<\/em><\/strong> by Jeffrey Eugenides<\/p>\n

Norwood<\/em><\/strong> or Gingos<\/em><\/strong> by Charles Portis<\/p>\n

Now I can throw away that ratty little post-it with all my notes on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesdays Bella likes to go home and sleepover at her friend’s house;\u00c2\u00a0 a friend who has TV reception, so that they can watch Desperate Housewives and Gilmore Girls (saved by TiBo). I’ve never watched Desperate Housewives myself, but I … 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}