{"id":320,"date":"2007-10-21T22:52:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T03:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2007-10-22T23:19:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T04:19:48","slug":"a-taste-for-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"A taste for books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/fergus_20071021.jpg\" class=\"floatleft\" width=\"180\" \/>My pup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=194\" title=\"QHN Reader\">Fergus<\/a> still has an appetite for the printed word, and I am happy to report that his taste has improved. Last week, he sank his teeth into a mystery by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Charles%20Todd&amp;tag=5l-20&amp;index=books&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Todd<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=5l-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" style=\"border: medium none ; margin: 0px\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> that I was reading. But he has yet to savor Bill Bryson&#8217;s memoir, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Thunderbolt%20kid&amp;tag=5l-20&amp;index=books&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=5l-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" style=\"border: medium none ; margin: 0px\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/>, which I just finished reading and highly recommend.<\/p>\n<p>Although it has nothing to do with horses or dogs, Bryson&#8217;s memoir about growing up in Des Moines, Iowa in the 1950s is a treasure, full of nostalgia and gut-wrenchingly funny. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams recently listed it as one of his &#8220;five favorite portraits of Americans&#8221; for the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not long after I began reading the book on a flight to Iraq, I was laughing so hard that I started heaving and weeping in my seat,&#8221; said Williams. &#8220;I&#8217;m quite sure the flight attendants briefly considered turining the plane around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you like well-crafted, psychological mysteries, like Fergus and I do, you might also enjoy Charles Todd&#8217;s inspector <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Ian%20Rutledge&amp;tag=5l-20&amp;index=books&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Rutledge<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=5l-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" style=\"border: medium none ; margin: 0px\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> novels set in post World War I England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pup Fergus still has an appetite for the printed word, and I am happy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}