{"id":523,"date":"2019-03-25T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/?p=523"},"modified":"2019-03-26T20:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:48:15","slug":"book-club-march-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Book Club &#8211; March Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our book last month was&nbsp;\u2018She\u2019s leaving home\u2019 by Joan Bakewell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"219\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/764327C9-0AF5-4654-AD50-6B24DBDF44D5.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"534\" data-link=\"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/?attachment_id=534\" class=\"wp-image-534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/764327C9-0AF5-4654-AD50-6B24DBDF44D5.png 219w, https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/764327C9-0AF5-4654-AD50-6B24DBDF44D5-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preview available on&nbsp;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books\/about\/She_s_Leaving_Home.html?id=O5p6g5v1M0oC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=kp_read_button&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books\/about\/She_s_Leaving_Home.html?id=O5p6g5v1M0oC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=kp_read_button&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were all looking forward to this read, knowing the author as a&nbsp;journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer, and also as&nbsp;an&nbsp;author and playwright, who&nbsp;has been awarded Humanist of the year for&nbsp;services to humanism \u2013 according&nbsp;to Wikipedia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we were all disappointed!&nbsp;The story was superficial and the style of writing we felt was almost child-like. This prompted us to check the date of publishing, expecting it to be an early work \u2013 but it was published in 2011!&nbsp;Though it was not necessarily written that year of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We met in Honora\u2019s log cabin and shared our opinions, followed by a sociable chat, whilst being supplied with refreshments galore. The sweetie tray was well received! Thanks Honora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/0152D816-1B8D-4D11-B93B-1DA582B03A98.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"536\" data-link=\"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/?attachment_id=536\" class=\"wp-image-536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/0152D816-1B8D-4D11-B93B-1DA582B03A98.png 235w, https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/0152D816-1B8D-4D11-B93B-1DA582B03A98-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This month\u2019s book is \u2018The keeper of Forgotten Things\u2019 by Ruth Hogan, so we are all hoping for a good read to take on our holidays. We meet on the third Thursday of April to review it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our book last month was&nbsp;\u2018She\u2019s leaving home\u2019 by Joan Bakewell.&nbsp; Preview available on&nbsp;&#8211; https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books\/about\/She_s_Leaving_Home.html?id=O5p6g5v1M0oC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=kp_read_button&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false We were all looking forward to this read, knowing the author as a&nbsp;journalist, television presenter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}