{"id":2882,"date":"2015-07-04T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2015-07-04T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T23:11:17","slug":"historical-fiction-live-by-night-by-dennis-lehane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2015\/07\/historical-fiction-live-by-night-by-dennis-lehane.html","title":{"rendered":"Historical Fiction: Live by Night, by Dennis Lehane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yeah, I haven&#8217;t written about the books I&#8217;ve been reading in ages and ages although I have kept pretty much up to date with commenting on them on GoodReads. I guess I need an app for my blog, ha.  <\/p>\n<p>I thought this book was just beautiful. While it is one part of the story of the Coughlin family, and partly a story about gangsters (cough, outlaws, sorry, Joe) and corruption and American history, it&#8217;s also got this incredibly romantic streak running through it. The things that carry Joe through his life: not just the women he loves, but the places he loves, the objects he loves (that watch, for example). <\/p>\n<p>I read the first book in this series (Any Given Day) in a furious rush over spring break while visiting my dad&#8217;s library and similarly when I picked this book up, I really couldn&#8217;t put it down either. I remember liking Lehane&#8217;s Kenzie\/Gennaro series back in the day when I read those (pre-2004) but not like THIS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yeah, I haven&#8217;t written about the books I&#8217;ve been reading in ages and ages although I have kept pretty much up to date with commenting on them on GoodReads. I guess I need an app for my blog, ha. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2015\/07\/historical-fiction-live-by-night-by-dennis-lehane.html\">Continue reading <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":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2882","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\/2882","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}