{"id":40780,"date":"2023-01-16T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40780"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T08:35:28","slug":"the-buried-giant-by-kazuo-ishiguro-book-booty-reprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/01\/16\/the-buried-giant-by-kazuo-ishiguro-book-booty-reprised\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Buried Giant&#8221; by Kazuo Ishiguro: Book Booty Reprised&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;chiefly because I forgot one of the holiday season arrivals last week! Too many books in too short a space of time, clearly. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The omitted book is <strong><em>The Buried Giant<\/em><\/strong> by Kazuo Ishiguro, which was first published in 2015.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40781\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40781\" class=\"wp-image-40781 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The_Buried_Giant_Ishiguro-194x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The_Buried_Giant_Ishiguro-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The_Buried_Giant_Ishiguro-97x150.png 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The_Buried_Giant_Ishiguro.png 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First edition cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I recall it being a little bit contentious at the time (among some readers, anyway) because of the way it bridged the fantasy and literary fiction genres. Not surprisingly, I&#8217;m interested to read it to find out more, and am only sorry it&#8217;s taken this long to get around to it.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I <em>have<\/em> gotten around to it yet, but it is now on the TBR table&#8212;although as <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/01\/09\/book-booty-aka-what-the-holiday-season-brought-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last week<\/a> no doubt made clear, there are a few ahead of it in the queue.<\/p>\n<p>Plus books to be written, as well as all the usual swings and roundabouts of everyday life to be navigated, but it&#8217;s always good to have new tales to look forward to reading. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40782\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40782\" class=\"wp-image-40782 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The_Buried_Giant_Audio-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The_Buried_Giant_Audio-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The_Buried_Giant_Audio-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The_Buried_Giant_Audio.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audio book cover<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;chiefly because I forgot one of the holiday season arrivals last week! Too many books in too short a space of time, clearly. \ud83d\ude00 The omitted book is The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, which was first published in 2015. I recall it being a little bit contentious at the time (among some readers, anyway) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived","category-other-writers","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40780","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=40780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40786,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40780\/revisions\/40786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}