{"id":53,"date":"2007-07-30T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=53"},"modified":"2007-07-30T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:06:49","slug":"i-capture-the-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/i-capture-the-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"I Capture the Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just had a lovely weekend visit with my sister, who drove in from Indiana, and her best friend from high school, who drove down from Maine.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0My sister, Jim, and I\u00c2\u00a0made a visit to the best used bookstore I know, the Barrow Bookstore in Concord, and there I saw a copy of <em>I Capture the Castle <\/em>by Dodie Smith.\u00c2\u00a0 Lisa&#8217;s teen book group read this a couple of months back and loved it, so I splurged and bought the copy (so much for my ban on purchasing books&#8230;).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only read a couple of chapters so far, but I LOVE the book.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m especially intrigued to find out why Lisa thinks the\u00c2\u00a0narrator is a lot like me (so far I don&#8217;t see it), but mostly I&#8217;m just enjoying Smith&#8217;s writing style.<\/p>\n<p>Also in my to-be-read pile:\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Cyrano <\/em>by Geraldine McCaughrean, and <em>The New Policeman <\/em>by Kate Thompson.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows <\/em>is at the bottom of my book pile, since I&#8217;ve already read the epilogue and was left rather cold and un-anxious to tackle that lengthy book.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometime, sometime, but not yet, thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just had a lovely weekend visit with my sister, who drove in from Indiana, and her best friend from high school, who drove down from Maine.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0My sister, Jim, and I\u00c2\u00a0made a visit to the best used bookstore I know, the Barrow Bookstore in Concord, and there I saw a copy of I Capture the Castle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/i-capture-the-castle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Capture the Castle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adult-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}