{"id":32,"date":"2009-11-01T05:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-12-24T04:36:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:36:44","slug":"new-books-fd-is-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;new&#8221; books FD is reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FD keeps a list of books to borrow from the library, and today \u00a0stopped by to get a couple. \u00a0One, <em>Suspect,<\/em> by Michael Robotham (from 2004), was found on a display of &#8220;staff favorites.&#8221; It&#8217;s always nice to have this kind of confirmation! \u00a0Another novel that FD has been meaning to read is <em>New England White<\/em> by Stephen Carter (from 2007). \u00a0It got good reviews, which led to its place on the &#8220;to read&#8221; list, even though Carter&#8217;s novels since have received mixed notices, particularly the most recent, <em>Jericho&#8217;s Fall. <\/em>Perhaps Carter has started writing too quickly &#8212; his first novel (<em>The Emperor of Ocean Park &#8212; <\/em>FD hasn&#8217;t read that one yet, either, though it was a best seller at the time&#8230;)\u00a0came out in 2002 and then there was a five-year interval before <em>NEW. <\/em>His two most recent novels books came out in 2008 and 2009 &#8212; and who outside of Joyce Carol Oates can write in an interesting way at that pace?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FD keeps a list of books to borrow from the library, and today \u00a0stopped by to get a couple. \u00a0One, Suspect, by Michael Robotham (from 2004), was found on a display of &#8220;staff favorites.&#8221; It&#8217;s always nice to have this kind of confirmation! \u00a0Another novel that FD has been meaning to read is New England [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}