{"id":1678,"date":"2014-05-10T08:11:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T12:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T14:15:57","slug":"currently-reading-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/currently-reading-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Currently reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a large stack of books next to my favorite chair, waiting to be read. \u00a0Most are for upcoming book groups, but I&#8217;m also starting to accumulate some &#8220;fun reading&#8221; books in anticipation of the June break from book groups (and then the August and September break from book groups, which allows me a lot of time to read other things!).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the books that are piled next to me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Screaming Staircase\u00a0<\/em>by Jonathan Stroud (5th grade book group)<\/li>\n<li><em>Rooftoppers\u00a0<\/em>by Katherine Rundell (6th grade book group)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Storm in the Barn\u00a0<\/em>by Matt Phelan (Teen book group)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Great American Dust Bowl\u00a0<\/em>by Don Brown (Teen book group)<\/li>\n<li><em>Years of Dust\u00a0<\/em>by Albert Marrin (Teen book group)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender\u00a0<\/em>by Leslye Walton<\/li>\n<li><em>The Outcasts\u00a0<\/em>by John Flanagan<\/li>\n<li><em>Marmee &amp; Louisa\u00a0<\/em>by Eve LaPlante<\/li>\n<li><em>My Heart is Boundless\u00a0<\/em>edited by Eve LaPlante<\/li>\n<li><em>The Moving Finger\u00a0<\/em>by Agatha Christie<\/li>\n<li><em>Curtain\u00a0<\/em>by Agatha Christie<\/li>\n<li><em>The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry\u00a0<\/em>by Gabrielle Zevin<\/li>\n<li>And assorted magazines, long neglected by me: \u00a0<em>The Atlantic,\u00a0<\/em>many\u00a0<em>New Yorkers<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Cook&#8217;s Illustrated\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Cook&#8217;s Country<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any other must-read suggestions for me for my upcoming season of fun reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a large stack of books next to my favorite chair, waiting to be read. \u00a0Most are for upcoming book groups, but I&#8217;m also starting to accumulate some &#8220;fun reading&#8221; books in anticipation of the June break from book groups (and then the August and September break from book groups, which allows me a lot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/currently-reading-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Currently reading<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-groups","category-childrens-literature","category-spare-time","category-young-adult-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}