{"id":6464,"date":"2010-04-14T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2010-04-13T15:40:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:40:58","slug":"the-bad-book-affair-by-ian-sansom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-bad-book-affair-by-ian-sansom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Book Affair by Ian Sansom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Bad Book Affair<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Ian Sansom is a light, easy-read mystery is a novel choice for National Library Week.\u00a0 There’s a lot of dialog (maybe too much at times) but since it takes place in Northern Ireland, I guess it’s reasonable to espect a bit of blarney or wit-repartee.\u00a0 Enter Israel Armstrong, the primary character, now living in a converted chicken coop, and according to the first sentence is” possibly Ireland’s only English Jewish vegetarian mobile librarian.”<\/p>\n

Israel is depressed; his girlfriend Gloria has just broken up with him, he’s about to turn 30, and he’s under suspicion in the disappearance of a local teenager.\u00a0 Some consider him responsible because (horror of horrors) he lent the girl a book from the library’s special “Unshelved” collection.\u00a0 Rather than be run out of town, he hops in the library van and does his own research, of sorts.\u00a0 Israel, in his frumpy cords and rather slovenly ways, is a very unlikely detective, but much of the humor comes from\u00a0this self-effacing characterization.\u00a0 This is not classic literature, but book-lovers, especially, will find some good laughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bad Book Affair by Ian Sansom is a light, easy-read mystery is a novel choice for National Library Week.\u00a0 There’s a lot of dialog (maybe too much at times) but since it takes place in Northern Ireland, I guess it’s reasonable to espect a bit of blarney or wit-repartee.\u00a0[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[786,80,165,139,1151,268,333],"class_list":["post-6464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-bookmobile","tag-england","tag-humor","tag-libraries","tag-mobile-library","tag-murder","tag-mystery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1Gg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}