{"id":1279,"date":"2009-10-18T12:51:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:36:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:36:23","slug":"seduced_by_prai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/10\/seduced_by_prai.html","title":{"rendered":"Seduced by Prairie Lights."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/girlreaction\/sets\/72157622477234515\/\">a wee lil roadtrip to Iowa <\/a>we took on Friday.  One of just several reasons (PIE SHAKES. PIE. IN A SHAKE.)  to go to Iowa City was to hit up this great bookstore, Prairie Lights, recommended by one of my professors.  I haven&#8217;t been buying books at all in my unemployed state (borrowing! from various friends AND the library!) so I had given myself a $100 budget for the event.  (I actually came out $10 under! Yay me! Aren&#8217;t you proud of me for being so restrained?!?!)<\/p>\n<p><UL type=\"square\"><LI><strong>&#8220;The Flying Troutmans&#8221;, by Miriam Toews<\/strong> &#8211; the first cople pages sucked me in. You may remember me reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/fiction_a_compl.html\">another book by her<\/a> a couple years ago.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>&#8220;The Turtle Catcher&#8221; by Nicole Helget <\/strong>&#8211; another writer I&#8217;ve read before (you can search for Helget on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/readin.html\">this old page<\/a>) and a Minnesotan. I&#8217;m interested to see what her fiction is like.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>&#8220;Speak&#8221; by Laurie Halse Anderson<\/strong> &#8211; a YA selection. First few pages seem very intense.  On a side note: I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a great decision to house the YA downstairs in what primarily looks like a (tiny, little wee) kids&#8217; playroom. I would have liked to see this section upstairs, maybe near the fantasy\/sci fi section would be a good spot.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>&#8220;Normal People Don&#8217;t Live Like This&#8221; Dylan Landis <\/strong>&#8211; a short story collection about young girls.  Thanks again to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethcrane.com\/blog\/index.html\">Betsy Crane<\/a> for getting me on the short story bandwagon these last few years.  So pleasing sometimes to just be able to read a story and not have to set your book down and come back to it.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>&#8220;College Girl&#8221; by Patricia Weitz<\/strong> &#8211; Read a few pages. Seems a bit like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/07\/fiction_the_dis.html\">Frankie Landau-Banks<\/a> and a bit chic-lit-y and I really think I&#8217;m going to like it.<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to get readin&#8217;!  After I finish some homework, that is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard about a wee lil roadtrip to Iowa we took on Friday. One of just several reasons (PIE SHAKES. PIE. IN A SHAKE.) to go to Iowa City was to hit up this great bookstore, Prairie Lights, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/10\/seduced_by_prai.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":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","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=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}