{"id":73,"date":"2005-05-23T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=73"},"modified":"2005-05-23T11:28:51","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T15:28:51","slug":"reading-on-the-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Reading on the Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You haven&#8217;t spent enough time around me if you haven&#8217;t heard me whining about transoceanic flights. I discovered a remedy for hours of lightly shaken, recycled air boredom on my last trip to Zagreb though. In order to survive this ordeal unscathed one must bring along a page-turner. I&#8217;ve been taking books on the airplane for years, but I&#8217;ve always put them down after two hours. Some books, most books I would choose in fact, need some time to percolate between chapters. The trick is therefore to get a book you will not put down. For me these books are written by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carol_Shields\">Carol Shields<\/a> followed closely by Hunter S. Thompson. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\/catalog\/covers_450\/9780394224176.jpg\" alt=\"The Republic of Love\" \/><br \/>\nFor the harrowing trip to Japan and back I have chosen her novel The Republic of Love.  Carol Shields is not my favourite author, but I have always read her books within days, which is quite unusual for me. As I expected, I was able to not get bored on the plane and the book lasted me enough for both directions. Is it a good book? Yah, not too bad. It is too much of a love story which makes it corny, but it is still pretty well done. If you are a cynic, the story will not be too believable, otherwise it is a good, coherent work. I do prefer her later novel, Unless. The question is, of course, on how many plane rides I can read the same author before I get bored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You haven&#8217;t spent enough time around me if you haven&#8217;t heard me whining about transoceanic flights. I discovered a remedy for hours of lightly shaken, recycled air boredom on my last trip to Zagreb though. In order to survive this ordeal unscathed one must bring along a page-turner. I&#8217;ve been taking books on the airplane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p278IQ-1b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}