{"id":7667,"date":"2010-07-27T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2010-07-19T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:27:09","slug":"juliet-naked-by-nick-hornby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/juliet-naked-by-nick-hornby\/","title":{"rendered":"Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Juliet, Naked<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Nick Hornby is the story of three people and their love of music and each other.\u00a0 Duncan and Annie are a couple from England who have been together for 15 years, for reasons neither are really sure of.\u00a0 Duncan is obsessed with musician Tucker Crowe, who abruptly gave up his music career two decades ago following the release of Duncan’s favorite Crowe album, titled Juliet<\/em>.\u00a0 When the book begins, Duncan and Annie (a much less enthusiastic Crowe fan) are on a trek through America visiting famous spots\u00a0where Tucker Crowe spent time.\u00a0 After disagreeing about the merits of Crowe’s comeback album (an acoustic work entitled Juliet, Naked<\/em>), Duncan commits the ultimate betrayal,\u00a0and he and Annie part ways.\u00a0 But while working to mend her broken heart, Annie is contacted by the person she least expects:\u00a0 the musician himself, Tucker Crowe.\u00a0 The two forge a relationship that is completely unexpected, yet fitting when you finally see it come together.<\/p>\n

I was drawn to this book for two reasons: I thought the cover was cool (yes, even librarians sometimes judge books by their covers), and the fact that it’s written by Nick Hornby.\u00a0 This is the second book by Nick Hornby that I have read.\u00a0 One of his earlier books, About A Boy<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, is another\u00a0enjoyable read if you\u00a0liked this book.\u00a0 If you like books about musicians and their fans, Hornby’s books are for you; he is clearly very interested in music, with this book being focused on the fictitious Tucker Crowe and About A Boy<\/em><\/strong> carrying a large focus on one character’s fascination with Kurt Cobain.\u00a0 It was interesting to see a sort of “behind the scenes” look at the life of the musician (even if he wasn’t real), and because of this, Tucker Crowe himself ended up being my favorite character.\u00a0 The ending, while slightly open-ended, provided enough closure that I had high hopes for Annie and her new life.\u00a0 Overall, I found this to be an interesting and enjoyable read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby is the story of three people and their love of music and each other.\u00a0 Duncan and Annie are a couple from England who have been together for 15 years, for reasons neither are really sure of.\u00a0 Duncan is obsessed with musician Tucker Crowe, who abruptly[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":"","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":[10,8],"tags":[1293,3253,374,408],"class_list":["post-7667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-famous-people","tag-music","tag-musicians","tag-romance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1ZF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667","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=7667"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions\/7816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}