{"id":27968,"date":"2015-01-31T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27968"},"modified":"2015-01-25T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T05:51:43","slug":"what-im-reading-next-up-is-ghostwritten-by-david-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/01\/31\/what-im-reading-next-up-is-ghostwritten-by-david-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Reading: Next Up Is “Ghostwritten” by David Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ghostwritten\"<\/a>As I observed last week<\/a>, one of the great things about being on holiday is having the time to catch up on your reading—and as you will know from that post I have a nice stack of books to get through. Next up is David Mitchell’s debut novel, Ghostwritten<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought I had better start at the beginning since Mitchell has said he’s writing an uber-novel—and the backcover of Ghostwritten<\/em><\/strong> does sound intriguing:<\/p>\n

“An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a\u00a0 jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or a\u00a0 Mongolian gangster, a woman on a lonely mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ?<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinities determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.”<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Which kinda suggests the book could be about anything at all really, although a peek at Good Reads suggests its something of a genre-bender.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case,\u00a0 the best thing to do is start reading and find out more—so I intend to do just that. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I observed last week, one of the great things about being on holiday is having the time to catch up on your reading—and as you will know from that post I have a nice stack of books to get through. Next up is David Mitchell’s debut novel, Ghostwritten. I thought I had better start […]<\/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-27968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27968","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=27968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27970,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27968\/revisions\/27970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}