{"id":5665,"date":"2011-04-12T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2016-06-29T18:15:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T22:15:11","slug":"2011-orange-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/04\/12\/2011-orange-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Orange Prize Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the finalists for the 2011 Orange Prize. Surprisingly, I&#8217;ve already read two of the six (the ones with links below). I&#8217;ve read an exceprt from <em>The Tiger&#8217;s Wife<\/em> and wasn&#8217;t a fan, though I note that many many many people are praising it. I have no interest in reading <em>Room<\/em> or <em>The Memory of Love<\/em>, and know little about <em>Grace Williams Says It Loud<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Room<\/em><\/strong>, by Emma Donoghue<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Memory of Love<\/em><\/strong>, by Aminatta Forna<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Grace Williams Says It Loud<\/em><\/strong>, by Emma Henderson<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a title=\"Mookse Review of Great House\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/11\/07\/nicole-krauss-great-house\/\">Great House<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, by Nicole Krauss<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Tiger&#8217;s Wife<\/em><\/strong>, by T\u00e9a Obreht<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a title=\"Mookse Review of Annabel\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/10\/25\/kathleen-winter-annabel\/\">Annabel<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, by Kathleen Winter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the two I read, I think I liked <em>Annabel<\/em> more as a\u00a0story, but I think <em>Great House<\/em> touched deeper and was written better, if not to great cumulative effect. I suppose, then, that I&#8217;m rather indifferent to the prize this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange Prize shortlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/04\/12\/2011-orange-prize-shortlist\/\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Orange-Prize-Logo.png?fit=248%2C257&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-1tn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18995,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/18995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}