{"id":2321,"date":"2024-02-29T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2024-03-04T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T10:27:59","slug":"page-breaks-bests-of-2023-1pm-mon-4th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2024\/02\/29\/page-breaks-bests-of-2023-1pm-mon-4th-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks: Bests of 2023 (1pm, Mon 4th March)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/02\/best-books-2023-both-longlists-smaller-tiles.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/02\/best-books-2023-both-longlists-smaller-tiles.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/02\/best-books-2023-both-longlists-smaller-tiles-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We might be now three months into 2024 (!), but we wanted to reflect on our best reads of 2023 &#8211; come with books in mind to discuss! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>How it works<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Come with a book or several books (or tv\/film\/music) in mind and ideas about what you liked and why, and leave with more recommendations from other Page Breakers! Your &#8216;best&#8217; does not have to be newly released, but one that you found for the first time last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All are warmly invited: you don&#8217;t need to have joined this group before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>When and Where<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1pm, Monday 4th March<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arts 119 (replacing 250 Fage Room). <strong>Directions<\/strong>: this room is on the 1st floor of the Arts Building. Follow signs to Arts Main Lecture Theatre and 119 is at the end of the corridor, just past the main lecture theatre.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>About Page Breaks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. There will be tea, coffee and biscuits and you are very welcome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-postgraduate-research-in-english-literature wp-block-embed-postgraduate-research-in-english-literature\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"aScM1hSekd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks\/\">Page Breaks: Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Page Breaks: Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature&#8221; &#8212; Postgraduate Research in English Literature \" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks\/embed\/#?secret=aTymXMiI7R#?secret=aScM1hSekd\" data-secret=\"aScM1hSekd\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We might be now three months into 2024 (!), but we wanted to reflect on our best reads of 2023 &#8211; come with books in mind to discuss! How it works Come with a book or several books (or tv\/film\/music) in mind and ideas about what you liked and why, and leave with more recommendations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2024\/02\/29\/page-breaks-bests-of-2023-1pm-mon-4th-march\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Page Breaks: Bests of 2023 (1pm, Mon 4th March)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":906,"featured_media":2326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,261,3],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-lit","category-events","category-page-breaks","tag-page-breaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","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\/906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}