{"id":6562,"date":"2025-07-26T05:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=6562"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:35:48","slug":"september-book-club-whip-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/september-book-club-whip-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"September Book Club: Whip Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whip-hand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6563 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whip-hand-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whip-hand-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whip-hand.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>For September, we&#8217;ll be reading Dick Francis&#8217; classic,\u00a0<em>Whip Hand,\u00a0<\/em>which was published in 1979 (and won the Best Novel Edgar in 1980).\u00a0 It&#8217;s a follow up to his first Sid Halley book, <em>Odds Against\u00a0<\/em>(1965).\u00a0 Sid is a steeplechase jockey (like Francis was himself) who has lost his hand and can no longer race.\u00a0 In\u00a0<em>Whip Hand<\/em> Sid now has a prosthetic. Francis&#8217; blend of suspense, a character that readers can pull for, and the details of the racing world really cannot be beat.\u00a0 To me he remains one of the greatest of all suspense writers.<\/p>\n<p>The book club will meet in person on Sunday, September 14 at 2 p.m. and on zoom on Sunday, September 21 at 2 p.m.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have some used copies available shortly if you don&#8217;t have one already or can&#8217;t find one at the library or digitally.\u00a0 See you in September!\u00a0 All are welcome.\u00a0 Feel free to message me on facebook for a zoom link or for the in person address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For September, we&#8217;ll be reading Dick Francis&#8217; classic,\u00a0Whip Hand,\u00a0which was published in 1979 (and won the Best Novel Edgar in 1980).\u00a0 It&#8217;s a follow up to his first Sid Halley book, Odds Against\u00a0(1965).\u00a0 Sid is a steeplechase jockey (like Francis was himself) who has lost his hand and can no longer race.\u00a0 In\u00a0Whip Hand Sid &#8230; <a title=\"September Book Club: Whip Hand\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/september-book-club-whip-hand\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about September Book Club: Whip Hand\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[167,2214,2212,2213],"class_list":["post-6562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","tag-book-club","tag-dick-francis","tag-september","tag-whip-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}