{"id":7096,"date":"2013-01-09T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T05:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2021-01-17T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T07:23:02","slug":"an-idea-called-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2013\/01\/09\/an-idea-called-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An idea called home &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anjum Hasan&#8217;s &#8220;Difficult Pleasures&#8221; is borderline surreal, the jacket told me. She would be in my top 3 favourite authors list, and I am completely awed by her writing (check the last para <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2012\/09\/21\/shillonging-day-4-peaks-and-falls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>) but I wonder if even that can explain the surreal thought I had as I read the first few pages. Can a book be called a home? What is a home after all? Isn&#8217;t it just an <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2009\/02\/06\/an-idea-called-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">idea<\/a> that is sometimes real and tangible and exists physically?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And that was the surreal thought &#8211; every time I read this author&#8217;s books, it&#8217;s like going home, as though I could reach inside, get into the story and talk to the characters and they wouldn&#8217;t consider me out of place at all. I could belong. Yes, it&#8217;s surreal, and I haven&#8217;t been smoking, but I just couldn&#8217;t get the thought out of my head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">until next time, home away from home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anjum Hasan&#8217;s &#8220;Difficult Pleasures&#8221; is borderline surreal, the jacket told me. She would be in my top 3 favourite authors list, and I am completely awed by her writing (check the last para here) but I wonder if even that can explain the surreal thought I had as I read the first few pages. Can <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2013\/01\/09\/an-idea-called-home-2\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479],"tags":[1958,4949,376,2437],"class_list":["post-7096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","tag-anjum-hasan","tag-books","tag-home","tag-surreal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15441,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions\/15441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}