{"id":188,"date":"2005-12-12T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T23:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/12\/currently-reading\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T09:38:25","slug":"currently-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/12\/currently-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Currently Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/upload\/princeoftides.jpg\" \/>I&#8217;m currently reading <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Pat Conroy\" title=\"Pat Conroy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat%20Conroy\" rel=\"tag\">Pat Conroy<\/a>&#8217;s:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0552996920\/qid=1134428609\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_10_1\/026-0649405-4899647\">The Prince of Tides<\/a> I&#8217;m only a couple of hundred pages in but I&#8217;m really enjoying it. Much more like Beach Music and less like The Water is Wide. The only problem I have so far is with the character of Tom Wingo &#8211; Pat Conroy loves food, all his main characters love food, and they all talk about food in the same way &#8211; so even though his main characters are all different, they have moments when they start to sound the same &#8211; when talking about food&#8230; With Tom, this seems out of place with the rest of his characteristics.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Pat Conroy\" title=\"Pat Conroy\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Pat%20Conroy\" rel=\"tag\" >Pat Conroy<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Prince of Tides\" title=\"The Prince of Tides\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/The%20Prince%20of%20Tides\" rel=\"tag\" >The Prince of Tides<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Beach Music\" title=\"Beach Music\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Beach%20Music\" rel=\"tag\" >Beach Music<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Water is Wide\" title=\"The Water is Wide\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/The%20Water%20is%20Wide\" rel=\"tag\" >The Water is Wide<\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Pat Conroy\" title=\"Pat Conroy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat%20Conroy\">Pat Conroy<\/a><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/18\/sideways\/\" title=\"Sideways\">Sideways<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/20\/big-fish\/\" title=\"Big Fish\">Big Fish<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/12\/the-green-mile\/\" title=\"The Green Mile\">The Green Mile<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/29\/the-prince-of-tides\/\" title=\"The Prince of Tides\">The Prince of Tides<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/08\/dirty-harry-potter-harry-callahan-and-the-deathly-hallows\/\" title=\"Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.\">Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading Pat Conroy&#8217;s:\u00a0The Prince of Tides I&#8217;m only a couple of hundred pages in but I&#8217;m really enjoying it. Much more like Beach Music and less like The Water is Wide. The only problem I have so far is with the character of Tom Wingo &#8211; Pat Conroy loves food, all his main &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/12\/currently-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Currently Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,41,8],"tags":[229,225,240],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-film-books","category-reading","tag-books","tag-film","tag-film-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}