{"id":1200,"date":"2009-06-06T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T10:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:35:16","slug":"fiction_little_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/fiction_little_.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: Little Bee, by Chris Cleave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOVED it. My third favorite book so far this year (preceded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/fiction_the_gue.html\">#1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/short_stories_d_2.html\">#2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/fiction_incendi.html\">his previous novel<\/a> was good: intense and unexpected. But this book just went to an entirely higher level. Completely swept me away.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/snappy_is_as_sn.html\">British woman<\/a> crosses paths with a young African girl. And then we hear how their story started. And nothing was ever the same again. Really lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVED it. My third favorite book so far this year (preceded by #1 and #2). I thought his previous novel was good: intense and unexpected. But this book just went to an entirely higher level. Completely swept me away. A &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/fiction_little_.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-1200","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\/1200","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=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}