{"id":2742,"date":"2016-01-15T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T11:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2016-01-15T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T11:24:35","slug":"dwl-lit-bites-jan-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/dwl-lit-bites-jan-15\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL Lit Bites &#8211; Jan 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers! It is I, your literary news bearer back with messages from the book world. So grab your tea\/coffee\/juice and let&#8217;s get cracking (a book spine).<\/p>\n<p>1. Over on the Book Riot YouTube channel, Director of Content, Rebecca Schinsky talks about<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PvVyu_qTYsw\"> five books to look forward to this January<\/a>. I found this list very interesting, especially<em> American Housewife<\/em> by Helen Ellis, a collection of funny and snarky short stories about womanhood. Feminist texts from a profane Southern writer? Sign me up.<\/p>\n<p>2. She is the one who knocks&#8230;or rather is glad she lives in a world where there are Octobers. Moira Walley-Beckett, star writer on the greatest show of all time, <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> is adapting <em>Anne of Green Gables<\/em> for television. I mean Anne and Diana are practically like Walter and Jesse in how dedicated Diana is to Anne and has zero imagination while Anne always has a scheme ready. Talk about kindred spirits.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/electricliterature.com\/breaking-bad-writer-moira-walley-beckett-to-write-new-anne-of-green-gables-tv-series\/\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. The world said farewell to one of the best actors of all time, who immortalized one of the best characters of all time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/filmblog\/2016\/jan\/14\/alan-rickman-an-actor-of-singular-charisma-whose-hold-over-audiences-was-hypnotic\">Rest in peace Alan Rickman, Severus Snape forever and always.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers! It is I, your literary news bearer back with messages from the book world. So grab your tea\/coffee\/juice and let&#8217;s get cracking (a book spine). 1. Over on the Book Riot YouTube channel, Director of Content, Rebecca Schinsky talks about five books to look forward to this January. I found this list very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517],"tags":[665,664,666],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}