{"id":1452,"date":"2010-12-11T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T10:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2011-10-29T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:06:18","slug":"ya_fiction_how_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/12\/ya_fiction_how_.html","title":{"rendered":"(YA) Fiction: How to Ditch Your Personal Fairy, by Justine Larbalestier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember, I&#8217;m a bit of a huge Larbalestier fan. I loved her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/04\/fantasy_magics.html\">Magic or Madness trilogy<\/a> and then I superextracrazytimes loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/yafantasy_liar.html\">her last book <strong>Liar<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Liar&#8221; was different than what came before it, and this book is even moreso. Far more lighthearted and silly (not in a bad way). I wondered if it was intended for younger readers than the others (I was thinking of looking up all their Lexile levels and comparing, heh) or just a different mindset. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoyable, but lighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember, I&#8217;m a bit of a huge Larbalestier fan. I loved her Magic or Madness trilogy and then I superextracrazytimes loved her last book Liar. &#8220;Liar&#8221; was different than what came before it, and this book is even &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/12\/ya_fiction_how_.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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","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=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}