{"id":557,"date":"2007-11-25T01:14:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T01:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/new-york-times-notable-books-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:36:37","slug":"new-york-times-notable-books-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/new-york-times-notable-books-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"new york times notable books of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to choose a handful of &#8216;unread-by-me&#8217; books from this list every year.   Novels I would have never otherwise been moved to try on.  Like Hilary Mantel&#8217;s <strong>Beyond Black<\/strong>, a 2005 <em>listee<\/em>.  Or <strong>The Jane Austen Book Club<\/strong> by Karen Joy Fowler which sounded a little too pink to pick up through any other recommendation.  This year I&#8217;ll be making a selection from the Non-Fiction list.  <strong>Leonard Woolf: A Biography<\/strong> by Victoria Glendinning, because I&#8217;ve recently developed an irrational fascination with Virginia&#8217;s husband.  But back to fiction and poetry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?page_id=558&#038;preview=true\"target=_blank>The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year.  Fiction and Poetry.<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to choose a handful of &#8216;unread-by-me&#8217; books from this list every year.   Novels I would have never otherwise been moved to try on.  Like Hilary Mantel&#8217;s <strong>Beyond Black<\/strong>, a 2005 most <em>listee<\/em>.  Or <strong>The Jane Austen Book Club<\/strong> by Karen Joy Fowler which sounded a little too pink to pick up through any other recommendation.  This year I&#8217;ll be making a selection from the Non-Fiction list.  <strong>Leonard Woolf: A Biography<\/strong> by Victoria Glendinning, because I&#8217;ve recently developed an irrational fascination with Virginia&#8217;s husband.  And <strong>In the Country of Men<\/strong> by Hisham Matar because&#8230;well&#8230;just because.  Anyhoo. The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year.  Fiction and Poetry.  <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}