{"id":35187,"date":"2018-04-23T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=35187"},"modified":"2018-04-18T21:36:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T09:36:41","slug":"when-nice-things-happen-for-a-book-ive-loved-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/when-nice-things-happen-for-a-book-ive-loved-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"When Nice Things Happen For A Book I&#8217;ve Loved Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/what-im-reading-something-new\/us-them\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34887\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Us-Them.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Us-Them.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Us-Them-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>As an author, I know what a wonderfully exciting moment it is when when nice things happen for a book.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty durned exciting, too, when a book I&#8217;ve loved reading wins an award. It&#8217;s nice, <em>you<\/em> know, to discover\u00a0 that others out there have enjoyed a book as much as I did myself. But as an author, I also know what it will mean to the writer, probably after she has spent years on the solitary process of researching and writing the book, then getting it to the world.<\/p>\n<p>So I was over the moon when my friend Mary Victoria let me know that <strong><em>Us &amp; Them<\/em><\/strong> (Stanford University Press, 2017), by <strong>Bahiyyih Nakhjavani<\/strong>, had won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentpublisher.com\/article.php?page=2302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent Publisher Silver Book Award for Literary Fiction<\/a>, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more about <strong><em>Us &amp; Them<\/em><\/strong>, I discussed the book here:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/what-im-reading-something-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What I&#8217;m Reading: Something New &#8212; &#8220;Us &amp; Them&#8221; by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>If you want to find out more about the author, you can check out her website:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/bahiyyihnakhjavani.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bahiyyih Nakhjavani<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>I really enjoyed this book so if you like literary fiction and something a little out of the ordinary, I believe <strong><em>Us &amp; Them<\/em><\/strong> may be just the read for you. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an author, I know what a wonderfully exciting moment it is when when nice things happen for a book. It&#8217;s pretty durned exciting, too, when a book I&#8217;ve loved reading wins an award. It&#8217;s nice, you know, to discover\u00a0 that others out there have enjoyed a book as much as I did myself. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187","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=35187"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35196,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions\/35196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}