{"id":4197,"date":"2018-01-27T19:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T18:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2019-01-09T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T09:12:46","slug":"januarys-book-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=4197","title":{"rendered":"January&#8217;s Book Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">This month we all read a book of our own choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Coming \u2018Highly Recommended\u2019 were a variety of novels:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2018The Dry\u2019 by Jane Harper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2018And the Mountains Echoed\u2019 by Khaled Husseini.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2018Nutshell\u2019 by Ian Mcewan<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2018Such a Long Journey\u2019 by Rohinton Mistry<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2018The Devil in the Marshalsea\u2019 by Antonia Hodgson<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Also, \u2018Eggs and Anarchy\u2019 by William Sitwell, a bio-graphical story of Winston Churchill\u2019s cabinet in World War Two, was recommended, as was Barack Obama\u2019s autobiography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Finally Penelope Lively\u2019s non fiction \u2018In the Garden\u2019 comes recommended for those gardeners who also love literature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Virginia Wolf next month. Quite a change!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This month we all read a book of our own choice. Coming \u2018Highly Recommended\u2019 were a variety of novels: \u2018The Dry\u2019 by Jane Harper. \u2018And the Mountains Echoed\u2019 by Khaled Husseini. \u2018Nutshell\u2019 by Ian Mcewan \u2018Such a Long Journey\u2019 by Rohinton Mistry \u2018The Devil in the Marshalsea\u2019 by Antonia Hodgson Also, \u2018Eggs and Anarchy\u2019 by William Sitwell, a bio-graphical [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-15H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11748,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=11748","url_meta":{"origin":4197,"position":0},"title":"May 2022  Book Choice","author":"Alan Williams","date":"5th June 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Apeirogon by Colum McCann This novel brought out many different emotions from the group. 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