{"id":514,"date":"2011-03-16T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/03\/16\/new-faculty-book-recommendation\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:48","slug":"new-faculty-book-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/03\/16\/new-faculty-book-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"New faculty book recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-555nxwJCeVU\/TYDCEhdu65I\/AAAAAAAAADM\/iJGx9BFLB_0\/s1600\/Room-A-Novel-B003YFIUW8-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;cursor: pointer;width: 206px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-555nxwJCeVU\/TYDCEhdu65I\/AAAAAAAAADM\/iJGx9BFLB_0\/s320\/Room-A-Novel-B003YFIUW8-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584676920897760146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Book: <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Room: A novel<br \/><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Author: <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Emma Donoghue<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Betsy Nix, College of Arts and Sciences<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\">The premise of this book sounds terrible&#8211;a mother and son trapped for years in an 11&#215;11 room by a kidnapper. But that&#8217;s not really what it is about. It is about motherhood and the world children create and understandings of happiness. It would be a great companion to Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s Freedom. The characters in Room have no freedom, but they find ways to cope.<br \/>I listened to this work as an audiobook because I was going on a long trip. The audio version is like a radio play, and I would highly recommend it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\"font-size:100%\"><br \/><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\">Check out the book at Langsdale, call number: PR6054.O547R66 2010 (3<sup>rd<\/sup> floor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\">Have you read any good books lately? We&#8217;re looking for book recommendations that we can share with the rest of the University. Submit yours all semester long at: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/lQqAv\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/lQqAv<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"color:black\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/lQqAv\"><span style=\"font-size:11.5pt\"><\/span><\/a><\/span> <span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book: Room: A novel Author: Emma Donoghue Reviewer: Betsy Nix, College of Arts and Sciences The premise of this book sounds terrible&#8211;a mother and son trapped for years in an 11&#215;11 room by a kidnapper. But that&#8217;s not really what <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/03\/16\/new-faculty-book-recommendation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  New faculty book recommendation<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}