{"id":253556,"date":"2007-07-30T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/07\/30\/review-of-simenons-the-engagement\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:10:15","slug":"review-of-simenons-the-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/07\/30\/review-of-simenons-the-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Simenon&#39;s The Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=114\">review<\/a> is of Georges Simenon&#8217;s <i>The Engagement<\/i>, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis. <\/p>\n<p>This book will be the featured book in the September Words Without Borders\/Reading the World Book Club. I will help moderate this discussion along with Mark Binelli, the author of the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/books.dalkeyarchive.com\/book\/each_book\/206\"><i>Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!<\/i>,<\/a> which is one of the best debut novels I&#8217;ve read in years. (Mark also writes for <i>Rolling Stone<\/i>, is hated by Britney Spears, and is incredibly funny. Which are even more reasons to participate in the book club . . . ) <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more info on the book club as the time grows nearer. In the meantime, if you&#8217;re interested in participating, you should pick up a copy of the book. It&#8217;s short, captivating, and fun . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest review is of Georges Simenon&#8217;s The Engagement, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis. This book will be the featured book in the September Words Without Borders\/Reading the World Book Club. I will help moderate this discussion along with Mark Binelli, the author of the amazing Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[2646,1646,2656,2636,1926],"class_list":["post-253556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-mark-binelli","tag-review","tag-sacco-and-vanzetti-must-die","tag-simenon","tag-the-engagement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314606,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253556\/revisions\/314606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}