{"id":2954,"date":"2015-05-30T13:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2015-05-30T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T18:06:50","slug":"bpr-summer-book-club-taps-rabbit-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/05\/30\/bpr-summer-book-club-taps-rabbit-run\/","title":{"rendered":"BPR Summer Book Club taps Rabbit, Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-30-at-1.05.03-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2955\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-30-at-1.05.03-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-30 at 1.05.03 PM\" width=\"181\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><strong>WGBH-Boston<\/strong> has announced <a href=\"http:\/\/wgbhnews.org\/post\/reading-hearts-bpr-summer-book-club\">&#8220;Reading Hearts: The BPR Summer Book Club,&#8221;<\/a> a three-month, no boundaries, interactive book club hosted by Alex Beam. In other words, you can read along, and listen in on the conversation with callers about each of the books, if you don&#8217;t feel like calling in yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The June entry is <em>Barefoot<\/em>, by Elin Hilderbrand. For July, readers are asked to tackle Updike&#8217;s <strong><em>Rabbit, Run<\/em><\/strong>, and the communal read for August is <em>Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond between People and Dogs<\/em>, by Caroline Knapp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rabbit-Run-John-Updike\/dp\/0449911659\/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1_pap?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1433009093&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=rabbit%2C+run\">Amazon.com<\/a> in summarizing <em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> as the July entry:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his\u2014or any other\u2014generation. Its hero is Harry &#8216;Rabbit&#8217; Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty\u2014even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler\u2019s edge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WGBH-Boston has announced &#8220;Reading Hearts: The BPR Summer Book Club,&#8221; a three-month, no boundaries, interactive book club hosted by Alex Beam. In other words, you can read along, and listen in on the conversation with callers about each of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/05\/30\/bpr-summer-book-club-taps-rabbit-run\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}