{"id":9253,"date":"2015-05-19T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:38:56","slug":"reading-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9253","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0025\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7693\/17816452246_53ea9c94a3_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0025\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7693\/17816452246_53ea9c94a3_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0025\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/State-Wonder-Novel-Ann-Patchett\/dp\/0062349546\" target=\"_blank\">State of Wonder<\/a>, by Ann Patchett<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0It&#8217;s probably no coincidence that I stumbled upon this book at the library immediately upon finishing\u00a0<em>Euphoria,\u00a0<\/em>another book about someone in the science\/social science field uncovering mystery while navigating complex social relationships in the jungle (are there many books like this, because I really really like them?!). It&#8217;s the kind of book I find myself feeling protective over, annoyed when someone interrupts me to ask what it&#8217;s about\u2026 (or maybe I just feel that way because I sense my reading freedom is about to come to an abrupt halt after this week, which marks the beginning of the boys&#8217; summer vacation) but I do feel that when someone asks me, I have to openly praise it (so far). We know how that goes &#8212; endings can be a let-down, so I&#8217;ll have to finish the book before I can give it my full approval. But I am enjoying it immensely right now.<\/p>\n<p><em>State of Wonder<\/em> is an exciting adventure and a touching emotional journey all wrapped into one. I am reading it quickly because I love it so, but I also don&#8217;t want it to end. Ah, the dilemma of a good book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett \u00a0It&#8217;s probably no coincidence that I stumbled upon this book at the library immediately upon finishing\u00a0Euphoria,\u00a0another book about someone in the science\/social science field uncovering mystery while navigating complex social relationships in the jungle (are there many books like this, because I really really like them?!). It&#8217;s the kind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-9253","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\/9253","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=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}