{"id":8988,"date":"2017-02-05T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=8988"},"modified":"2017-02-05T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T18:31:22","slug":"library-book-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/library-book-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"Library book stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plangently\/32688794416\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Library books\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/672\/32688794416_f1290a5ec8_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\" alt=\"Library books\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I went to the library yesterday to return one book, and ended up checking out four more &#8211; oops\/yay! From top to bottom: 1) The Bone People by Keri Hulme &#8211; I already had this checked out, just took it out of my bag for the picture. This one&#8217;s another pre-New-Zealand-trip reading recommendation. I started it last night and it&#8217;s really satisfying so far, with lots of satisfyingly-rendered quirky inner monologue. 2) Attachments by Rainbow Rowell, because I&#8217;ve been meaning to read this for ages but haven&#8217;t yet. 3) Public Library by Ali Smith, because I generally love her playfulness\/smarts\/inventiveness. 4) The Chimes by Anna Smaill, because I&#8217;ve been vaguely meaning to check it out since <A href=\"https:\/\/shelflove.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/11\/the-chimes\/\">this 2015 post by Teresa over at Shelf Love<\/a>. 5) Crosstalk by Connie Willis, because I want to get lost in a story and in the past I&#8217;ve found her work really good for that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the library yesterday to return one book, and ended up checking out four more &#8211; oops\/yay! From top to bottom: 1) The Bone People by Keri Hulme &#8211; I already had this checked out, just took it out of my bag for the picture. This one&#8217;s another pre-New-Zealand-trip reading recommendation. I started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalmeta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}