{"id":28505,"date":"2018-07-02T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/?p=28505"},"modified":"2018-07-01T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T16:25:18","slug":"call-me-by-your-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/07\/02\/call-me-by-your-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me By Your Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend G-Boo recommended Call Me By Your Name by Andr\u00e9 Aciman<\/a> to me and, as a break from re-reading Lord Of The Rings, I read it lounging about in the sun in a very quiet garden. This was very sensible.<\/p>\n

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This is the story of the love affair that changes you. The one that defines you and what that does to you. At first, I was caught out by the phrasing and had to go over passages until I worked out that the Elio, the main character, is doing what we all do when we fall for someone who doesn’t seem to care: playing conversations and scenarios in his head and bargaining with the gods for a secret word, a nod, a little breathe (in the words of R.E.M.) to give us hope.<\/p>\n

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Elio’s thoughts and feelings are raw, graphic and urgent. It is not a prim book, it is honest and that means sex and mess. This is sex and mess that is brilliantly written.<\/p>\n

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Brilliantly written books are easily found if you look for them. What is not so easy to come by is brilliantly written, honest, life-affirming, hopeful books that make you glad to be alive and that you’ve read them. These books have a tendency\u00a0to rip you open and make you do the full ugly cry so that when your family return\u00a0after a day trip you are found using a sun lounger as a life raft to save you from drowning in your own tears. This is one of those books.<\/p>\n

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A book recommendation. Brace yourselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[39,149],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Call-Me.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28507,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505\/revisions\/28507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}