{"id":5125,"date":"2014-03-12T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2015-08-15T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:25:00","slug":"the-good-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5125","title":{"rendered":"The Good Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Good-Doctor-Damon-Galgut\/dp\/1843542021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Good_Doctor-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Good_Doctor\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Good_Doctor-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Good_Doctor.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read this for the library book club.  Unfortunately I wasn&#8217;t able to make the meeting due to work but, after reading the book, I did listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/p00c50nk\/World_Book_Club_Damon_Galgut_The_Good_Doctor\/\">author talking about it for the BBC World Book Club<\/a>, which gave me some much needed context.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very unsettling book.  I wouldn&#8217;t say I enjoyed it but it&#8217;s very successful at creating a tense atmosphere.  I didn&#8217;t know much about apartheid in South Africa so I couldn&#8217;t imagine the novel being anchored in a time and place.  Perhaps that&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t feel sympathetic to any of the characters, although I&#8217;m more certain that it&#8217;s because they aren&#8217;t developed enough.  The book is only 200 pages long.  While plenty happens, I didn&#8217;t understand the motivations of the characters until I heard the talk.  I&#8217;m not sure if Id recommend this as a good read but there is plenty to think about and it&#8217;s well written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this for the library book club. Unfortunately I wasn&#8217;t able to make the meeting due to work but, after reading the book, I did listen to the author talking about it for the BBC World Book Club, which gave me some much needed context. This is a very unsettling book. I wouldn&#8217;t say [&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-5125","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\/5125","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=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5129,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}