{"id":4749,"date":"2013-08-16T16:55:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2013-09-18T00:28:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:28:42","slug":"the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4749","title":{"rendered":"The Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Life-Martina-Cole\/dp\/0755375599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Life.jpeg\" alt=\"The Life\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4751\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked this up at the library because I loved the TV series of The Take and The Runaway.  I&#8217;m not very far in but the writing seems quite simplistic, bad in places: &#8216;relaxed hair&#8217;?? but I&#8217;ll read a bit more and see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Later&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nWell, I have read 100 pages and I am getting annoyed that there is far too much narrative and there is far too little dialogue and action.  The writing style is very immature.  It&#8217;s so stereotypical too: all the women are good-looking, all the men are handsome.  And the central characters being two brothers, one sensible and one out of control, is a carbon copy of The Take.  I&#8217;m going to give this one up as a bad job; life is just too short.  I&#8217;ll definitely watch it if it gets made into a TV drama though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up at the library because I loved the TV series of The Take and The Runaway. I&#8217;m not very far in but the writing seems quite simplistic, bad in places: &#8216;relaxed hair&#8217;?? but I&#8217;ll read a bit more and see how it goes. Later&#8230; Well, I have read 100 pages and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4787,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions\/4787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}