{"id":1861,"date":"2015-04-02T17:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:03:51","slug":"recommendations-spring-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations, Spring 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My five favourite books I&#8217;ve read so far this year are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Frozen Charlotte <\/strong>by<strong> Alex Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage <\/strong>by<strong> Albert Glinsky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>All Passion Spent <\/strong>by<strong> Vita Sackville-West<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nemo: River of Ghosts <\/strong>by<strong> Alan Moore and Kevin O&#8217;Neill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-and-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education <\/strong>by<strong> Grace Llewellyn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of the films I&#8217;ve seen lately, my three favourites are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Fall<\/strong> directed by <strong>Tarsem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bicycle Thieves <\/strong>directed by <strong>Vittorio De Sica<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-and the thrillingly unhinged-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Blind Woman&#8217;s Curse<\/strong> directed by <strong>Teruo Ishii<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BTW: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/story\/30630894-crawlers\">The whole of my book <strong>Crawlers<\/strong> is now up and free to read on <strong>Wattpad <\/strong><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. A delighted THANK YOU to <strong>@dmitrixyz<\/strong> for all his comments as he read it and my smug smile when he was caught by one of the twists. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Happy holidays,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My five favourite books I&#8217;ve read so far this year are: Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage by Albert Glinsky All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West Nemo: River of Ghosts by Alan Moore and Kevin O&#8217;Neill -and- The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patron-of-reading","category-try-this-its-brilliant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}