{"id":2064,"date":"2014-06-04T20:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:34:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:34:19","slug":"judy-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/judy-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Life After Life<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Kate Atkinson (an incredible concept handled by a master writer)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Me Before You<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Jojo Moyes (one of my all-time favorites &#8212; a big surprise as I thought I wouldn&#8217;t take to it)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Light in the Ruins<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Chris Bojahlian\u00a0 (one of his best &#8212; about Italy during WW2, which most of us know nothing about)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Goldfinch<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Donna Tartt (Dickensian in scope and length and brilliance &#8212; may need extra time for a club to read)<\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;m in the middle of <em><strong>Frog Music\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Emma Donaghue, who wrote <em><strong>Room<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a fabulous storyteller, as those of you who read <b><i>Room<\/i><\/b>\u00a0know, and this new one is every bit as good a story. \u00a0At first, I didn&#8217;t think it would make a very good book club discussion, but it&#8217;s getting a lot more involved and I&#8217;m beginning to think it would.\u00a0 Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life After Life\u00a0by Kate Atkinson (an incredible concept handled by a master writer) Me Before You\u00a0by Jojo Moyes (one of my all-time favorites &#8212; a big surprise as I thought I wouldn&#8217;t take to it) The Light in the Ruins\u00a0by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/judy-kennedy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-reads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}