{"id":6824,"date":"2006-11-02T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T21:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/02\/ah-humilityas-reassuring-as-a-good-cuppa-tea\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T21:25:14","slug":"ah-humilityas-reassuring-as-a-good-cuppa-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2006\/11\/02\/ah-humilityas-reassuring-as-a-good-cuppa-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah humility&#8230;as reassuring as a good cuppa tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Kiran Desai on her Booker winning novel: The Inheritance of Loss:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a perfect book,\u201d she says of her second novel, <em>The Inheritance of Loss<\/em>. \u201cThere are bits that seem too slow or too fast. And in some places, I don\u2019t think it works at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/books\/desai.html\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/books\/desai.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Frankly, I think the woman deserved to win on her humility alone and patience sitting at the kitchen table for eight years. It&#8217;s uplifting to see writers win who have that dazed, &#8220;behind closed curtains for many years&#8221; look about them, rather than the chumped up, &#8220;I&#8217;m pleased with myself on a Monday afternoon whether I win a book prize or not&#8221; alternative. There&#8217;s no science to a book prize, if there were, books could come with literary steriods such as: yellow ribbons, fifty dollars slipped in the back, nude snaps of authors head on a better body, petrol coupons, green shield stamps for those hoping a 1970&#8217;s vibe might swing it for them, or low income tax returns with long overdue bills attached &#8212; the mercy inducing steroid. It&#8217;s got to be as random as choosing a hamster in a cage of thirty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Kiran Desai on her Booker winning novel: The Inheritance of Loss: \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a perfect book,\u201d she says of her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss. \u201cThere are bits that seem too slow or too fast. And in some places, I don\u2019t think it works at all.\u201d http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/books\/desai.html \u00a0Frankly, I think the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}