{"id":42417,"date":"2024-09-05T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42417"},"modified":"2024-08-29T22:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T10:33:12","slug":"more-book-booty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/09\/05\/more-book-booty\/","title":{"rendered":"More Book Booty!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve very nearly made it to the end of my January Book Booty list — only Pascal Mercier’s Night Train To Lisbon<\/em><\/strong> to go now.<\/p>\n

And I’ve just been given three more for the T(o) B(e) R(ead) list. Herewith in alphabetical order by title:<\/p>\n

City of Girls<\/em><\/strong> by Elizabeth Gilbert (2019)<\/p>\n

Yes, the<\/em> Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love<\/em> fame. This is a later work, which I would categorise as “recent historical” fiction, i.e. it starts in 1940 and covers a time period until 2010. From the backcover synopsis, it appears to be about a young woman, Vivian Morris, carving out a life for herself amid the New York showbiz scene and how that does—or doesn’t—work out for her.<\/p>\n

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Educated<\/strong> <\/em>by Tara Westover (2018)<\/p>\n

I’ve been meaning to read this book for some time. It’s a memoir about a young woman growing up in an “End of Days” family in the US and only gaining an education after she leaves home, at the age of sixteen. It was\/is an international bestseller and the seven lead-in pages of positive reviews reinforce that a lot of people really liked it.<\/p>\n

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Songbirds<\/strong><\/em> by Christy Lefteri (2021)<\/p>\n

Although a novel, I believe it is based upon true events that happened in Cyprus. This particular story is about the disappearance of a fictional woman, Nisha, and the people who try to find her. I shall let you know what I think — in due course, needless to say. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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I’ve very nearly made it to the end of my January Book Booty list — only Pascal Mercier’s Night Train To Lisbon to go now. And I’ve just been given three more for the T(o) B(e) R(ead) list. Herewith in alphabetical order by title: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (2019) Yes, the Elizabeth Gilbert […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417","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=42417"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42425,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417\/revisions\/42425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}