{"id":16,"date":"2010-03-28T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2010-03-28T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:13:00","slug":"juliet-naked-nick-hornby-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2010\/03\/juliet-naked-nick-hornby-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Juliet, Naked &#8211; Nick Hornby, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hornby is always thoroughly enjoyable, and a great premise makes his latest even more savory. Annie&#8217;s wasted 15 years with Duncan, a socially clueless middle-aged nerd who&#8217;s obsessed with reclusive American musician Tucker Crowe. Annie does love Tucker&#8217;s classic album, <i>Juliet<\/i>, and when the original demos are released as <i>Juliet, Naked<\/i>, she writes a counter-essay to Duncan&#8217;s rhapsodizing about this one new addition to the Crowe canon. Crowe emails Annie in appreciation, and the cascade of encounters begins. The showing-up of Duncan&#8217;s fanboy snobbishness is delicious, but Hornby never goes too far&#8211;all his characters remain human and sympathetic. He&#8217;s kind to them, which is one of the reasons I&#8217;m so fond of him; he&#8217;s also not-put-down-able, but without leaving the junk food aftertaste that some compelling novels do. <i>Juliet, Naked<\/i> doesn&#8217;t quite have the substance of <i>About a Boy<\/i>, but it made me very happy. Thank you, Mr. Hornby, and please keep writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hornby is always thoroughly enjoyable, and a great premise makes his latest even more savory. Annie&#8217;s wasted 15 years with Duncan, a socially clueless middle-aged nerd who&#8217;s obsessed with reclusive American musician Tucker Crowe. Annie does love Tucker&#8217;s classic album, Juliet, and when the original demos are released as Juliet, Naked, she writes a counter-essay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}