{"id":9208,"date":"2015-05-12T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9208"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:47:26","slug":"reading-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9208","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0001\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8721\/17534709532_d488a5e3d7_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8721\/17534709532_d488a5e3d7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0001\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Euphoria-Lily-King\/dp\/0802123708\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1431373107&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=euphoria\" target=\"_blank\">Euphoria<\/a>, by Lily King<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you for all of your suggestions last week on new books to read! I am adding a couple of them to the list! Until then, I just finished\u00a0<em>Euphoria\u00a0<\/em>in record time. It was a quick read \u2014 captivating in an interesting way. It is fiction, but inspired by life events of anthropologist Margaret Mead (and her second and third husbands Reo Fortune and Gregory Bateson).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The book is the proud winner of many awards and I instantly understood why; I loved the romantic undercurrent that develops amidst the three anthropologists during their field work and the delicate balance of power revealed amidst Westerners and the New Guinean natives alike, and of course, the way it&#8217;s written is just so appealing and easy. I found myself drawn in by the intrigue of the culture and the suspense of the romantic connection that develops. It would be the perfect book to read on a vacation. If you&#8217;re looking for a beautifully and colorfully written novel, check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euphoria, by Lily King Thank you for all of your suggestions last week on new books to read! I am adding a couple of them to the list! Until then, I just finished\u00a0Euphoria\u00a0in record time. It was a quick read \u2014 captivating in an interesting way. It is fiction, but inspired by life events of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[132,54],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-reading","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208","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=9208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9210,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions\/9210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}