{"id":1085,"date":"2007-10-11T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2007-10-11T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T08:43:09","slug":"doris_lessing_wins_the_nobel_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/doris_lessing_wins_the_nobel_p\/","title":{"rendered":"doris lessing wins the nobel prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,2188747,00.html\">this morning&#8217;s announcement<\/a> i could kick myself for not having written up this post weeks ago. each summer i choose an &#8220;important book&#8221; to read on my vacation. this year i decided to re-read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/006093140X?tag=bringyourbrainco&#038;camp=0&#038;creative=0&#038;linkCode=as1&#038;creativeASIN=006093140X&#038;adid=1RMAH6MCKCYA9RK26R7R&#038;\">The Golden Notebook.<\/a><\/em> When I first read it, in 1970 the women&#8217;s movement was just taking off and i devoured it hungrily looking for understanding into the sea change that was roiling all our lives.  Reading it this summer was a revelation on many levels. i&#8217;ll write a longer post after the Really Modern Library meetings explaining this in some detail and also some of the interesting ideas i&#8217;ve got about how we might &#8220;read&#8221; this novel in a networked environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given this morning&#8217;s announcement i could kick myself for not having written up this post weeks ago. each summer i choose an &#8220;important book&#8221; to read on my vacation. this year i decided to re-read The Golden Notebook. When I first read it, in 1970 the women&#8217;s movement was just taking off and i devoured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,662,1311,1576],"tags":[2867],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dorislessing","category-fiction","category-nobelprize","category-reading","tag-reading-fiction-dorislessing-nobelprize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}