{"id":1185,"date":"2009-04-12T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T13:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2015-07-07T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:46:50","slug":"fantasy_the_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/fantasy_the_for.html","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy: The Forest of Hands and Teeth, by Carrie Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soooooo good.<\/p>\n<p>I bought this after reading about it <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/03\/10\/the-big-idea-carrie-ryan\/\">on John Scalzi&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tactile and intense.  Made me cry on the El train.  I felt like I was in Mary&#8217;s head.  I could barely put it down.<br \/>\nWow, what a book.  <a href=\"http:\/\/carrieryan.com\/faq.php\">Spring 2010<\/a> is tooooo long to wait for the next one! Too long!<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you won&#8217;t be able to read it without thinking of M. Night Shymalan&#8217;s The Village (a movie most people hated but I loved mostly for Joaquin&#8217;s quietly brooding performance. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/my_favorite_joa.html\">That scene where they&#8217;re on the porch<\/a>? Sigh.), but just put it out of your mind as the similarities are only circumstantial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soooooo good. I bought this after reading about it on John Scalzi&#8217;s blog. Tactile and intense. Made me cry on the El train. I felt like I was in Mary&#8217;s head. I could barely put it down. Wow, what a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/fantasy_the_for.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}