{"id":2160,"date":"2010-05-20T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2010-05-20T09:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:37:52","slug":"this-week-in-the-literary-world-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"This Week in the Literary World"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Oprah is offering up &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/omagazine\/O-Magazines-June-Book-Reviews\" target=\"_blank\">7 Books to Watch for in June 2010<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; titles include: Jennifer Egan&#8217;s <em>A Visit From the Goon Squad<\/em> and Julie Orringer&#8217;s <em>The Invisible Bridge<\/em>. [Source: Oprah.com]<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no reason to go through <em>Lost<\/em> withdrawal once the show is off the air. Pick up one of the many books featured on the show! Here are a couple of lists that take a look at the novels read by characters and other influential stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/News\/Lost-Reading-List-1018610.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TV Guide<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/lost-book-list\" target=\"_blank\">Squidoo<\/a>, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/showtracker\/2010\/05\/lost-in-books-.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Lifelong Tolkien fan Maddie Chambers was asked to design and build a toy as part of a college course, and decided to create a miniature Bag End.&#8221; This is really cool (whether you&#8217;re a Tolkien fan or not.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/gallery\/2010\/may\/20\/hobbit-hole-maddie-chambers\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look at the gallery of images<\/a>. [Source: The Guardian]<\/li>\n<li>Also from The Guardian: Bill Bryson takes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2010\/may\/17\/bill-bryson-toilet\" target=\"_blank\">a closer look at the toilet<\/a>, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/may\/13\/top-10-incarceration-stories-lesley-glaister\" target=\"_blank\">top 10 books about incarceration<\/a>,&#8221; and a so-you-think-you-know-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/quiz\/2010\/apr\/21\/mark-twain-quiz\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain quiz<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah is offering up &#8220;7 Books to Watch for in June 2010&#8221; &#8211; titles include: Jennifer Egan&#8217;s A Visit From the Goon Squad and Julie Orringer&#8217;s The Invisible Bridge. [Source: Oprah.com] There&#8217;s no reason to go through Lost withdrawal once the show is off the air. Pick up one of the many books featured on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-yQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}