{"id":185,"date":"2007-04-30T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T19:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/04\/a-certain-chemistry-mil-millington\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T08:36:22","slug":"a-certain-chemistry-mil-millington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/04\/a-certain-chemistry-mil-millington\/","title":{"rendered":"A Certain Chemistry (Mil Millington)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fiction, 3\/10 &#8211; April 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/aCertainChemistry.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nIt&#8217;s a light-hearted read about the temptation and pain of infidelity. Tom Cartwright, a ghost-writer living in Edinburgh, throws away his girlfriend of 5 years, to chase a unrealistic dream. The characters in the book have a number of brilliantly described personality flaws which I could laugh at but otherwise, there didn&#8217;t seem much point to the book. In fact, God makes several appearances just to remind us that love is just chemistry and chemistry that he isn&#8217;t proud of at that.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The parts I liked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I liked all the excuses and quick-thinking that Tom had to do when trying to cover up his affair. e.g. &#8220;How did you get that bruise?&#8221; &#8220;I fell over a tramp&#8221;.\n<li>I thought the book conveyed Sara&#8217;s hidden intelligence very well.\n<li>I thought the description of pain that Tom felt when he realised how much a fool he had been was vivid and imaginable.\n<li>Toms agent, Ami the drunk, was entertaining.\n<li>I thought the ending was satisfying.\n<li>I liked Saras cooking. e.g. ice cream and fried eggs.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiction, 3\/10 &#8211; April 2007 It&#8217;s a light-hearted read about the temptation and pain of infidelity. Tom Cartwright, a ghost-writer living in Edinburgh, throws away his girlfriend of 5 years, to chase a unrealistic dream. The characters in the book have a number of brilliantly described personality flaws which I could laugh at but otherwise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}