{"id":10441,"date":"2015-12-22T08:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T14:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:09:44","slug":"reading-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10441","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0468\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/782\/23789394161_51f056ae86_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0468\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/782\/23789394161_12bbddfa64_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0468\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Station-Eleven-Emily-John-Mandel-ebook\/dp\/B00J1IQUYM\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1445452972&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=station+eleven&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=bleubird-20&amp;linkId=668d34ce2cd490089cd0c45f8fbf751e#customerReviews\" target=\"_blank\">Station Eleven<\/a>, by Emily St. John Mandel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I <em>love<\/em> this book. It fits all of my requirements: great post-apocolypse read with flashbacks, great character development, just enough science fiction, warnings of how we treat each other and our world around us, and questions of art and humanity. Hard to put down.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0469\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/727\/23243717184_a764594094_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0469\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/727\/23243717184_d7d7bf6da2_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0469\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grownup-Story-Author-Gone-Girl\/dp\/0804188971\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1450637013&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+grownup+gillian+flynn\" target=\"_blank\">The Grownup<\/a>, by Gillian Flynn<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This one is perfect for a quick, satisfying short novel &#8212; it&#8217;s easy to read in one sitting at 62 pages, creepy and a little mysterious, left me wanting more. I read it in its entirety while slowly eating lunch by myself at a little restaurant (an act I highly encourage if you&#8217;ve never done it before). Borrow from a friend, if you can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel I love this book. It fits all of my requirements: great post-apocolypse read with flashbacks, great character development, just enough science fiction, warnings of how we treat each other and our world around us, and questions of art and humanity. Hard to put down.\u00a0 The Grownup, by Gillian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10442,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions\/10442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}