{"id":99243,"date":"2015-09-08T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/99243\/enchanting-novels-you-can-read-in-a-day\/"},"modified":"2015-09-08T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:28:11","slug":"enchanting-novels-you-can-read-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/08\/enchanting-novels-you-can-read-in-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Enchanting novels you can read in a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Wednesday: Animal Farm A Fairy Story by George Orwell<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cCaptioned &#8216;a fairy story&#8217;, Animal Farm is anything but that. Sick and tired of maltreatment under their enslavement from man, the animals of Manor Farm revolt. Released from all chains, there is but one key rule: All animals are equal. Yet, as the story progresses we soon see some animals are more equal than others\u2026\u201d Cara for \u00a0The Guardian<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday: The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves.&#8221; School Library Journal<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h3>Friday: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cChinua Achebe&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0is a beautiful novel &#8211; as an extended metaphor for African despoliation, life and politics it works wonderfully.\u00a0<em>Beautiful<\/em>\u00a0is, perhaps, a strange word to describe this essentially melancholic novel but whilst\u00a0<em>Things Fall Apart<\/em>\u00a0is a sorrowful affair it is never a despondent one.\u201d Mark Thwaite<\/p>\n<h3>Saturday: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/h3>\n<p>The Great Gatsby is in many ways similar to Romeo and Juliet yet is so much more than a love story. It also a reflection on the hollowness of a life of leisure.\u201d The Pink Elephant<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h3>Sunday: Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s by Truman Capote<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Truman Capote is tart as grand aunt, but in his way he is a ballsy little guy, and he is the most perfect writer of my generation, he writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm. I would not have changed two words in Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s, which will become a small classic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='209adaf475d311d8a3d4400a396a1d28'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate National Book Week by reading these awesome short novels <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7663,"featured_media":99244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central ","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}