{"id":4531,"date":"2025-02-10T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T01:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2025-03-07T20:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:54:04","slug":"just-like-you-nick-hornby-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2025\/02\/just-like-you-nick-hornby-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Just Like You<\/i> &#8211; Nick Hornby, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/book_groups\/Second_Monday.htm\">Second Monday<\/a> selection. I always enjoy Hornby but didn&#8217;t find this as good or as believable as his usual standard. Just one word I learned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/dictionary\/mandem_n?tl=true\">mandem<\/a>, and a few short quotes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Cooking kept the evening away from the afternoon\u2014it was a punctuation mark, stopping the long sentence of the day from tripping over itself and becoming garbled.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On an unpromising blind date, &#8220;you could provide uninformed and unasked-for opinion, and you could be as nosy as you wanted.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;He was very interested in feathering caps, and he didn\u2019t mind which bird the feathers had fallen off.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;He\u2019d cross that bridge if the bridge ever got built. There wasn\u2019t even anything for the bridge to go over yet.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What the protagonist learns about the lute watching the movie <em>Heartstrings<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;who knew &#8230; that, if you listened to the lugubrious sound of the lute for nearly two hours, you wanted to gather up every lute in the country and burn them on a gigantic bonfire?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> &#8220;maybe there was no future in it, but there was a present, and that\u2019s what life consists of&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Monday selection. I always enjoy Hornby but didn&#8217;t find this as good or as believable as his usual standard. Just one word I learned, mandem, and a few short quotes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-dump","category-second-monday-book-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","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=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4533,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions\/4533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}