{"id":1612,"date":"2023-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T21:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:43:01","slug":"best-books-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/12\/31\/best-books-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Books 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Demon Copperhead<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Barbara Kingsolver<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Set in 21st-century Appalachia, this clever updating of the Dickens\u2019 classic follows a young boy\u2019s struggle to escape deprivation, exploitation, opioid addiction, and the foster care system. It brilliantly captures the spirit and tone of the original whilst exploring the contemporary issues facing some of America\u2019s poorest communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Translating Myself and Others<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Jhumpa Lahiri<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">More than mere transposition of words between languages, translation is an art form in and of itself, a creative process that <em>\u201csimultaneously repeats converts, reflects and restores\u2026central to the production of literature, not an accessory to it.\u201d<\/em> The essays in this collection are proof positive of this transformative power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver Set in 21st-century Appalachia, this clever updating of the Dickens\u2019 classic follows a young boy\u2019s struggle to escape deprivation, exploitation, opioid addiction, and the foster care system. It brilliantly captures the spirit and tone of the original whilst exploring the contemporary issues facing some of America\u2019s poorest communities. Translating Myself and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[428,473,348,429,18],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-428","tag-barbara-kingsolver","tag-best-books","tag-jhumpa-lahiri","tag-odt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}