{"id":1177,"date":"2012-07-17T06:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T10:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2012-07-17T06:34:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T10:34:20","slug":"summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Summer reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bojnberry\/7573313490\/\" title=\"Untitled by bojnberry, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7124\/7573313490_ba4d01bf61.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are two weeks left of our vacation and I have even managed to read! From the contemporary Croatian selection I&#8217;ve read the usual suspects, Tomic and Baretic and even a bit of Rudan.<\/p>\n<p>Tomic&#8217;s   &#8220;Punoglavci&#8221; is apparently not only a novel but also a commissioned advertisement for Podravka (Croatian food industry giant). The novel, a nostalgic recounting of a summer vacation, peppered with many mentions of Podravka delicacies is a fun, quick read.<\/p>\n<p>I was excited to get Baretic&#8217;s &#8220;Hotel Grand&#8221; from the library. His &#8220;Osmi Povjerenik&#8221; is very well written and absolutely hilarious but for the life of me I can&#8217;t remember if makes a point. &#8220;Pricaj mi o njoj&#8221; has a very strong central story, but I felt the writing itself to be a bit weak. In &#8220;Hotel Grand&#8221; he gets it right with both strong central story and strong writing. I usually dislike reading about criminal goings on, but the characters are so alive and the storyline so interesting, I could not put it down. The novel is written in a blog format which makes it even more interesting and funny.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had to put Rudan&#8217;s &#8220;Strah od pletenja&#8221; down despite the promising title. The foul mouthed, whiny narrator complaining about unimportant things when there is plenty of real problems out there to complain about grated too much.<\/p>\n<p>In the completely opposite gene of foreign classics, I have got through the first quarter of &#8220;War and Peace&#8221; inspired by recently watched play. Apparently, there is still some Napoleon fighting left to do so I better get back to reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two weeks left of our vacation and I have even managed to read! From the contemporary Croatian selection I&#8217;ve read the usual suspects, Tomic and Baretic and even a bit of Rudan. Tomic&#8217;s &#8220;Punoglavci&#8221; is apparently not only a novel but also a commissioned advertisement for Podravka (Croatian food industry giant). 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