{"id":221,"date":"2010-11-21T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:20:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:20:40","slug":"present-tense-book-review-case-histories-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/present-tense-book-review-case-histories-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Present Tense Book Review &#8211; Case Histories: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(<a href='\/blog\/archives\/217'>Part One<\/a> of this Present Tense Book Review.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve rattled through this book, a testament to both the writing and the degree of traffic on Oxford Road this week (I do a lot of my reading on the bus&#8230;) On the whole it was enjoyable, and any book with a character called <a href='\/blog\/archives\/category\/feline'>Binky<\/a> is worth reading. Here, the Binky is an old South African lady, a slightly different twist on a cliched character, in a book full of quite interesting characters who don&#8217;t quite escape from the page. The story is pretty good, but the confluence of the three case histories is a bit unsatisfactory &#8211; two of them intertwine quite nicely, but the third feels mostly superfluous.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf I was in a reading group I&#8217;d comment on the theme of lost women\/girls, and the multi-layered definitions of loss that the book explores, and explores well, I think. But that sounds a bit pretentious when I&#8217;m just churning words out into the ether, so I&#8217;ll conclude by saying that the book was sufficiently diverting that I want to read the others in the series&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Part One of this Present Tense Book Review.) I&#8217;ve rattled through this book, a testament to both the writing and the degree of traffic on Oxford Road this week (I do a lot of my reading on the bus&#8230;) On the whole it was enjoyable, and any book with a character called Binky is worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}