{"id":38,"date":"2008-03-06T13:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T12:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-03-27T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:16:03","slug":"not-talking-about-the-book-to-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Not talking about &#8216;The Book to Talk About&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1846686628?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=literaryconne-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=1846686628\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/images\/2148DCmJXKL._AA_SL160_.jpg\"  align=\"right\"  hspace=\"5\" title=\"Boy A\" alt=\"Boy A\"\/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=literaryconne-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=1846686628\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>Jonathan Trigell&#8217;s controversial novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1846686628?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=literaryconne-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=1846686628\" target=\"_blank\">Boy A<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=literaryconne-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=1846686628\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> has been named as the first winner of the Book to Talk About award, announced to coincide with World Book Day, the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,2262380,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian reports<\/a>. Learn about all the books on the shortlist on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/spreadtheword\/\" target=\"_blank\">Books to Talk About<\/a> section of the World Book Day website.  <\/p>\n<p>Since the point is to provoke discussion, the book seems well-chosen &#8211; ironically, but perhaps not surprisingly, on World Book Day the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/spreadtheword\/forum.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Forum page<\/a> said: &#8216;The discussion part of the Spread the Word site has been suspended due to the large amount of unacceptable and undesirable postings\/Spam.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Boy A&#8217; wins talking point award for &#8216;The Book to Talk About 2008&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}