{"id":5984,"date":"2013-10-11T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2016-09-26T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T22:52:37","slug":"reading-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=5984","title":{"rendered":"Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0001\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2814\/10062343195_014fbe1996.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2814\/10062343195_014fbe1996_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0001\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From left: Me &amp; Emma, by Elizabeth Flock; Far from the Tree, by Andrew Solomon; The Big Disconnect: Protecting Children and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, by Catherine Steiner-Adair<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An ambitious goal, to read these three books this fall: one is nearly 1,000 pages long (but it turns out many of those pages are notes and bibliography- whew!). But you know that excited, heart-racing feeling you get when you find a book at the library you have been itching to read? Having palpitations over\u00a0<em>Far From the Tree.\u00a0<\/em>I&#8217;ll share with you the gist of each:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Me &amp; Emma<\/strong>: A fictional account of an 8-year-old girl, told from her point of view, who has to care for her younger sister after her family life is shattered- has a twist at the end that I am looking forward to&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Far From the Tree<\/strong>: A 10 Best Books from the New York Times Book Review 2012, this book has received a lot of praise. Solomon writes about parents and their exceptional children: from &#8220;families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender.&#8221; He explores the common link in each story, as well as the nature-nurture debate and the decision to be a parent.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>The Big Disconnect<\/em><\/strong><em>: Examines not only how technology &amp; screens put children&#8217;s development at risk, but also how we are losing vital human connections in family life, and suggestions for dealing with issues tech has flung upon us.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What are you reading, or excited about reading soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left: Me &amp; Emma, by Elizabeth Flock; Far from the Tree, by Andrew Solomon; The Big Disconnect: Protecting Children and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, by Catherine Steiner-Adair An ambitious goal, to read these three books this fall: one is nearly 1,000 pages long (but it turns out many of those pages are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=5984\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-5984","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\/5984","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=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12045,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/12045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}