{"id":2266,"date":"2023-11-23T14:48:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2023-11-23T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:48:22","slug":"romance-reading-group-november-session-akwaeke-emezis-you-made-a-fool-of-death-with-your-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2023\/11\/23\/romance-reading-group-november-session-akwaeke-emezis-you-made-a-fool-of-death-with-your-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance Reading Group &#8211; November session: Akwaeke Emezi&#8217;s You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday 28 November at 6:30 pm BST<strong>, Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Autumn and winter symbolize death and the hope for the renewal to come in spring. In this spirit (and with a bit of an imaginative stretch)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us on the 28th November for our Romance Reading Group session on Akwaeke Emezi\u2019s novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akwaeke.com\/fool-of-death\"><em>You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty<\/em><\/a>. In the Simon &amp; Schuster edition\u2019s Reading Group Guide, the author states that they had \u201cbeen reading romance since [they] were a preteen, and [they] wanted to write a story that had a happy ending. Genre,\u201d they continue, \u201cis a loose concept for [them], and because [they] read across genres, it feels natural to write across them as well.\u201d So how does this novel fit with our understanding and expectation of romance?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We look forward to discussing this and much more at our Reading Group Session, 28th November at 6.30pm BST on Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As always, you can just show up for a chat even if you haven\u2019t read the book. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/romancegroup.wixsite.com\/home\/event-details\/akwaeke-emezis-you-made-a-fool-of-death-with-your-beauty-2\">RSVP<\/a> for a Zoom link and join us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 28 November at 6:30 pm BST, Zoom Autumn and winter symbolize death and the hope for the renewal to come in spring. In this spirit (and with a bit of an imaginative stretch)&#8230; Join us on the 28th November for our Romance Reading Group session on Akwaeke Emezi\u2019s novel You Made a Fool of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2023\/11\/23\/romance-reading-group-november-session-akwaeke-emezis-you-made-a-fool-of-death-with-your-beauty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romance Reading Group &#8211; November session: Akwaeke Emezi&#8217;s You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":2267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romance-reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}