{"id":13833,"date":"2012-05-26T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13833"},"modified":"2012-05-26T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:28:20","slug":"what-im-reading-started-early-took-my-dog-by-kate-atkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/what-im-reading-started-early-took-my-dog-by-kate-atkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Reading: “Started Early, Took My Dog” by Kate Atkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>No, I know, not<\/em> an author interview somewhere “out thar” in the ethernet—what am I thinking?<\/p>\n

In fact there’s not a great deal of time for reading these days in between the book writing and all that social media-rization, aka interviews, guest posts and tweeting-like-anything. Which is all good stuff, but hey thar, a gal gotta stay in touch with what else is happening in the world of books and writing, and the very best<\/em> way to do that is by reading.<\/p>\n

Yes, reading!<\/p>\n

And right now the book I have on the go is “Started Early, Took My Dog”<\/em><\/strong> by Kate Atkinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far, I have to say, I am enjoying it. She (the Kate, that is) has a very dark view of human nature but then again—read the newspaper, listen to the radio. Her view of who we are as a species and what we are capable of has plenty of evidence to back up the darker view. I like to think that is not all we are, or can be, but it’s certainly hard to argue against Ms Atkinson…<\/p>\n

Anyways, here’s what the back cover blurb says—and yes it is another “Jackson Brodie” <\/a>novel (although that in fact is a very simplistic view of the array of characters and storylines within the covers of the book):<\/p>\n

“A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn’t bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy’s humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn.<\/em><\/p>\n

Witnesses to Tracy’s outrageous exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie who has returned to his home county in search of someone else’s roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished…”<\/em><\/p>\n

With luck, I’ll get it finished within the next three months or so. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

But definitely, so far, so good.<\/p>\n

How about you? What are you reading right now?<\/p>\n

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No, I know, not an author interview somewhere “out thar” in the ethernet—what am I thinking? In fact there’s not a great deal of time for reading these days in between the book writing and all that social media-rization, aka interviews, guest posts and tweeting-like-anything. Which is all good stuff, but hey thar, a gal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13833"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13847,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions\/13847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}