{"id":78737,"date":"2016-02-22T12:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=78737"},"modified":"2016-04-29T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T19:43:34","slug":"great-visit-with-readings-of-the-diaspora-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=78737","title":{"rendered":"Great Visit with &#8220;Readings of the Diaspora&#8221; Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-78738 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Reading-of-the-Diaspora-Book-Club.jpg\" alt=\"Reading of the Diaspora Book Club\" width=\"432\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Reading-of-the-Diaspora-Book-Club.jpg 432w, https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Reading-of-the-Diaspora-Book-Club-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/>There is nothing better than spending a rainy Sunday basking in the warmth and company of book lovers. Yesterday I had just that kind of perfect afternoon with the <em>Readings of Diaspora <\/em>Book Club. \u00a0The visit was hosted by Tina Boyd whom I met at the <em>2015 National Book Festival<\/em> last Fall. She contacted me after the Festival and invited me to join her book club when they discussed my novel, <em>Provenance<\/em>. There was plenty of spirited\u00a0talk, laughter, insightful questions\u00a0and delicious food to fuel the discussion in the comfort of Tina&#8217;s beautiful home.<\/p>\n<p>It was truly a wonderful experience for this\u00a0author to meet such passionate readers; to hear their opinions and impressions and know that they connected with my\u00a0characters and the story I tried to tell.\u00a0Thank you Tina and all of the members of <em>Readings of the Diaspora<\/em> Book Club. It was an\u00a0honor and a pleasure to be in your company yesterday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Is your book club planning to read Provenance? I&#8217;d be glad to visit or Skype in for your discussion.<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?page_id=78614\">Here&#8217;s how to contact me<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=78639\">.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing better than spending a rainy Sunday basking in the warmth and company of book lovers. Yesterday I had just that kind of perfect afternoon with the Readings of Diaspora Book Club. \u00a0The visit was hosted by Tina Boyd whom I met at the 2015 National Book Festival last Fall. She contacted me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[142,124,162],"class_list":["post-78737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-clubs","tag-african-american-book-clubs","tag-provenance-by-donna-drew-sawyer","tag-readings-of-the-diaspora"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78737"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78841,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78737\/revisions\/78841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}