{"id":1714,"date":"2011-11-17T19:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2011-11-17T19:16:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:16:06","slug":"book-log-speaking-with-the-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Speaking with the Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Speaking with the Angel<\/em> by Nick Hornby and others<\/p>\n<p>So I bought this collection of short stories because&#8230; Nick Hornby.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it benefits Autism.\u00a0 Or rather, those with Autism.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a collection of stories from a bunch of writers and Colin Firth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;PMQ&#8221; by <a title=\"Robert Harris (novelist)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Harris_%28novelist%29\">Robert Harris<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Wonder Spot&#8221; by <a title=\"Melissa Bank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melissa_Bank\">Melissa Bank<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Last Requests&#8221; by <a title=\"Giles Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giles_Smith\">Giles Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Peter Shelley&#8221; by <a title=\"Patrick Marber\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Marber\">Patrick Marber<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Department of Nothing&#8221; by <a title=\"Colin Firth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Firth\">Colin Firth<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m the Only One&#8221; by <a title=\"Zadie Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zadie_Smith\">Zadie Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;NippleJesus&#8221; by Nick Hornby<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;LuckyBitch&#8221; by <a title=\"Helen Fielding\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helen_Fielding\">Helen Fielding<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Slave&#8221; by <a title=\"Roddy Doyle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roddy_Doyle\">Roddy Doyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Catholic Guilt&#8221; by <a title=\"Irvine Welsh\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irvine_Welsh\">Irvine Welsh<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned&#8221; by <a title=\"Dave Eggers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Eggers\">Dave Eggers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Walking into the Wind&#8221; by <a title=\"John O'Farrell\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_O%27Farrell\">John O&#8217;Farrell<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;NippleJesus&#8221; was great.\u00a0 &#8220;Walking into the Wind&#8221; was very David Sedaris (i.e. good).<\/p>\n<p>In general, this is a fun collection of stories.\u00a0 I think Colin Firth should stick to acting, and I am forever ashamed by my inability to enjoy Dave Eggers, but overall, this is a good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with the Angel by Nick Hornby and others So I bought this collection of short stories because&#8230; Nick Hornby. Also, it benefits Autism.\u00a0 Or rather, those with Autism. It&#8217;s a collection of stories from a bunch of writers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1714\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[466,226],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2011","tag-hornby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}