{"id":3151,"date":"2011-03-25T14:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2011-03-25T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:05:26","slug":"ian-rankin-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3151","title":{"rendered":"Ian Rankin on NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s NPR interview with Ian Rankin<\/a> is going to add another book to my TBR pile.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve heard of him but haven’t read anything by him.<\/p>\n

The title of his newest book is The Complaints<\/em> and features an internal affairs\u00c2\u00a0police officer, Malcolm Fox.\u00c2\u00a0 He sounds like a straitlaced\u00c2\u00a0sort of guy trying to do what’s expected of him to the best of his ability.\u00c2\u00a0 Rankin mentioned people seemed to like Fox even though he’s very different from his famous Detective Inspector Rebus.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thinking about it, there are some people who want such a character right now.\u00c2\u00a0 People will always use books to escape from their ordinary lives but isn’t it nice to have a character\u00c2\u00a0who could be someone who lives on your street?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s NPR interview with Ian Rankin is going to add another book to my TBR pile.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve heard of him but haven’t read anything by him. The title of his newest book is The Complaints and features an internal affairs\u00c2\u00a0police officer, Malcolm Fox.\u00c2\u00a0 He sounds like a straitlaced\u00c2\u00a0sort of guy trying to do what’s expected… Continue reading Ian Rankin on NPR<\/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":[15],"tags":[462,86,463],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-ian-rankin","tag-interview","tag-the-complaints","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t