{"id":6098,"date":"2014-05-27T21:50:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=6098"},"modified":"2014-05-27T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:51:37","slug":"coopers-book-report-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=6098","title":{"rendered":"Cooper&#8217;s Book Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s book is <em>Flaubert&#8217;s Parrot<\/em> by Julian Barnes.<a href=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/flaubert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6099\" alt=\"flaubert\" src=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/flaubert.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/flaubert.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/flaubert-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/flaubert-764x1024.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><span>In<em> Flaubert&#8217;s Parrot, <\/em>English doctor <\/span><span>Geoffrey Braithwaite examines the life of Gustave Flaubert and uses his writings to make sense of his own life. The title bird is a stuffed parrot that sat on Flaubert&#8217;s desk while he wrote <\/span><i>Un c\u0153ur simple <\/i>(and which features a parrot by the name of Loulou).<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Cooper enjoyed this book &#8211; she learned a lot about Flaubert. Her favorite part of the book follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1845 Gustave was traveling through Antibes, on his way to Italy, when he came across a sick parakeet which merited an entry in his diary; the bird used to perch carefully on the mudguard if its owner&#8217;s light cart, and at dinnertime would be brought in and placed on the mantlelpiece. The diarist notes the &#8216;strange love&#8217; clearly evident between man and pet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cooper thinks if the book had been titled <em>Flaubert&#8217;s Budgie<\/em>, it certainly would have won the Pulitzer or Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s book is Flaubert&#8217;s Parrot by Julian Barnes.In Flaubert&#8217;s Parrot, English doctor Geoffrey Braithwaite examines the life of Gustave Flaubert and uses his writings to make sense of his own life. The title bird is a stuffed parrot that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=6098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[7,2289,179,1498,1499,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6101,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions\/6101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}