{"id":1524,"date":"2021-08-09T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2021-08-09T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T10:22:10","slug":"currently-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"Currently Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-063002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-063002-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-063002-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-063002-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-063002-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-063002-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-063002-1200x1199.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-063002.jpg 1451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have two books going at the moment \u2014 my morning read \u201cQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can\u2019t Stop Talking,\u201d recommended by a kindred here, and I\u2019m so pleased she gave me a heads up on it\u2026my nighttime read is a Tracy Chevalier novel, \u201cA Single Thread.\u201d I\u2019m finding it slower going than Quiet, and I\u2019m not sure yet about how much I like it. I enjoyed previous works of hers including \u201cGirl with a Pearl Earring,\u201d \u201cFalling\u00a0 Angels,\u201d and\u00a0 \u201cRemarkable Creatures,\u201d and I love how she uses \u201croman \u00e0 clef\u201d as she weaves her fictional narratives. For novels with excellent research on historical backgrounds, hers are well-done, but the pace of this latest read of hers feels slower, hence my hesitancy to comment on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two books going at the moment \u2014 my morning read \u201cQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can\u2019t Stop Talking,\u201d recommended by a kindred here, and I\u2019m so pleased she gave me a heads up on it\u2026my nighttime read is a Tracy Chevalier novel, \u201cA Single Thread.\u201d I\u2019m finding it slower &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Currently Reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625],"tags":[596,640],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soul","tag-books","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}