{"id":3563,"date":"2018-06-12T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/06\/12\/the-perfect-gift-for-fathers-day-wisdom-in-nonsense-by-heather-oneill\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:13:22","slug":"the-perfect-gift-for-fathers-day-wisdom-in-nonsense-by-heather-oneill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/06\/12\/the-perfect-gift-for-fathers-day-wisdom-in-nonsense-by-heather-oneill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Gift for Father&#039;s Day! &quot;Wisdom in Nonsense&quot; by Heather O&#039;Neill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a hard time figuring out what to get for your father or father figure in your life, you might consider a new book by award-winning author Heather O\u2019Neill. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/906-9781772123777-wisdom-in-nonsense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisdom in Nonsense<\/a> is\u00a0full of wry and witty stories of unconventional mentors that provided the foundation of O\u2019Neill\u2019s writing life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Heather O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s] father shared hard-earned wisdom culled from early years as a petty criminal through to his work as a kind of philosopher-janitor. Unfortunately, his enthusiasm for dispensing life advice was in direct opposition to its practical application. But it certainly makes for good reading&#8230;. [This] collection, like all of her work, is filled with humour, moments of joy, sudden bursts of deep emotion and heartbreaking sincerity&#8230; The lesson in <em>Wisdom in Nonsense<\/em> is how a writer uses autobiography to inform fiction.&#8221;\u00a0Michael Melgaard, <em>National Post<\/em>, February 17, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read how she made sense of lessons such as &#8220;Learn to Play the Tuba,&#8221; &#8220;Never Watch a Paul Newman Movie,&#8221; or &#8220;Never Tell Anyone What Your Parents Do for a Living.&#8221; At the end of the book, there is room to jot down the lessons you learned from your father, mother, or other parent figure in your life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/906-9781772123777-wisdom-in-nonsense\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9121\" src=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/06\/9781772123777.jpg?w=206\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book is available at Chapters\/Indigo and at your favourite independent bookstore and is $12 or under.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a hard time figuring out what to get for your father or father figure in your life, you might consider a new book by award-winning author Heather O\u2019Neill. Wisdom in Nonsense is\u00a0full of wry and witty stories of unconventional mentors that provided the foundation of O\u2019Neill\u2019s writing life. &#8220;[Heather O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s] father shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}