{"id":2039,"date":"2010-11-04T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:33:41","slug":"november-reading-group-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2010\/11\/04\/november-reading-group-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"November Reading Group Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.squidoocdn.com\/resize\/squidoo_images\/250\/draft_lens2390646module42650682photo_1246041040quake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"239\" \/>November&#8217;s Reading Group Selection is <strong>Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s<\/strong> final novel <strong><em>Timequake<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Due to Thanksgiving, the Book Group will meet <strong>Monday, November 29th<\/strong> at <strong>7pm<\/strong> at <strong>Goldfish Teahouse <\/strong>(117 W. Fourth St., in Downtown Royal Oak).\u00a0 All are welcome to come and books are discounted 15% at Book Beat.\u00a0 Any questions, please call Book Beat at (248) 968-1190.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Timequake<\/em>&#8216;s<\/strong> a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade&#8217;s worth of writer&#8217;s block, a book &#8220;that didn&#8217;t want to be written.&#8221; The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: &#8220;&#8230;a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they&#8217;d done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time&#8230;&#8221; Simultaneously, the author&#8217;s favorite tricks are on display&#8211;frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book&#8217;s end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November&rsquo;s Reading Group Selection is Kurt Vonnegut&rsquo;s final novel Timequake.&nbsp; Due to Thanksgiving, the Book Group will meet Monday, November 29th at 7pm at Goldfish Teahouse (117 W. Fourth St., in Downtown Royal Oak).&nbsp; All are welcome to come and books are discounted 15% at Book Beat.&nbsp; Any questions, please call Book Beat at (248) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}