{"id":10884,"date":"2016-03-22T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2016-09-07T10:42:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:42:14","slug":"reading-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10884","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0054\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1552\/25933448715_eb5e01be49_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0054\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1552\/25933448715_0729687da8_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0054\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mislaid-A-Novel-Nell-Zink\/dp\/0062364774\" target=\"_blank\">Mislaid<\/a>, by Nell Zink<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I just finished\u00a0<em>Mislaid\u00a0<\/em>last week and though I enjoyed it, I didn&#8217;t <em>love\u00a0<\/em>it. Set in the 1960&#8217;s in Virginia, the comic novel explores issues of race, gender, sexuality, and identity in an absurd family story. Most of the book is funny, interesting, and thought-provoking, but I found the end to be underwhelming and as a result, disappointing. However, I have been thinking a lot about the complex issues in the book (presented in such a light way) since I finished reading it, so I guess the impact has been successful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you read this one, what did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mislaid, by Nell Zink I just finished\u00a0Mislaid\u00a0last week and though I enjoyed it, I didn&#8217;t love\u00a0it. Set in the 1960&#8217;s in Virginia, the comic novel explores issues of race, gender, sexuality, and identity in an absurd family story. Most of the book is funny, interesting, and thought-provoking, but I found the end to be underwhelming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-10884","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\/10884","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=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10886,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions\/10886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}