{"id":13913,"date":"2026-07-28T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:30:27","slug":"13913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/28\/13913\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:7200,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.penguin.co.uk\\\/books\\\/465343\\\/having-spent-life-seeking-by-tempest-kae\\\/9781787335370&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260214080603\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.penguin.co.uk\\\/books\\\/465343\\\/having-spent-life-seeking-by-tempest-kae\\\/9781787335370&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 16:26:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 08:17:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 22:20:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05 21:23:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-09 06:39:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-13 10:53:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-21 09:11:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-25 05:13:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-28 05:15:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-02 01:12:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-07 16:23:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 17:17:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-13 20:35:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 16:27:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 20:43:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-25 07:49:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-28 10:48:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-02 22:09:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-07 20:57:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-15 06:23:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-18 13:08:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-22 03:29:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-25 04:15:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-28 06:54:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-28 06:54:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7273,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.kaetempest.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260419232951\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.kaetempest.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-27 17:37:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-31 12:02:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-04 07:29:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 06:47:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-15 17:17:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-20 11:35:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-25 07:49:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-29 15:14:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-02 22:09:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-07 06:49:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-16 05:46:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-21 04:35:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-24 10:25:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-28 06:54:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-28 06:54:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcda Finished reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/465343\/having-spent-life-seeking-by-tempest-kae\/9781787335370\" title=\"Penguin Books: Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest\">Having Spent Life Seeking<\/a><\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaetempest.com\" title=\"Kae Tempest\">Kae Tempest<\/a>. My copy of the book came free with my ticket to see Tempest in conversation at The Roundhouse <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/22\/weeknotes-373-kae-tempest\/\" title=\"Andrew Doran: Weeknotes #373 \u2014 Kae Tempest\">back in April<\/a>. During the interview, he spoke movingly about \u201cthe incredible technology\u201d of a novel, which allows you to put yourself in another person\u2019s shoes, feel what they feel, and take that with you back into your everyday life. The best things I read are always those where I get a glimpse into someone else\u2019s lived experience that I have little concept of. This novel, about someone dealing with the complexities of having being born female but not recognising themself in that way, gets better the further you get into the book. There is a scene where the protagonist ends up in a fight with their father which is so well-written that I could viscerally feel the tension and how it escalates from calmness to all-out war. It\u2019s excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DraggedImage-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DraggedImage-1.png 640w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DraggedImage-1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/28\/13913\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \"><div class='e-content p-summary'>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest. My copy of the book came free with my ticket to see Tempest in conversation at The Roundhouse back in April. During the interview, he spoke movingly about \u201cthe incredible technology\u201d of a novel, which allows you to put yourself in another person\u2019s shoes, feel [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","category-snippets","post_format-post-format-status","h-entry","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13659,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/22\/weeknotes-373-kae-tempest\/","url_meta":{"origin":13913,"position":0},"title":"Weeknotes #373 \u2014 Kae Tempest","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"22 April 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A good, solid week at work. 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