{"id":2098,"date":"2015-03-30T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2016-03-27T18:33:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T22:33:04","slug":"betsy-karch-wilson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/betsy-karch-wilson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seating Arrangements and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Betsy Karch Wilson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">I have read Magggie&#8217;s <em>Seating Arrangement<\/em>, and will look forward to this one! \u00a0 She \u00a0does paint very colorful characters! \u00a0I \u00a0just finished another great new book . \u00a0 \u00a0 It is <em>All the Light We Cannot See<\/em>\u00a0 by Anthony Doerr. \u00a0 \u00a0It is a novel about WWII, and centers on two young people, a blind French girl whose father carefully measures her paths, first in Paris and then in Saint Malo, and constructs models for her to follow, and a German youth who is an orphan and a brilliant radio engineer, and thus one of Hitler&#8217;s Youth Corps at a very young age. \u00a0 \u00a0Doerr&#8217;s writing is fabulous, his descriptions unbelievably beautiful&#8230;even and especially about war&#8230;his similes are magical. \u00a0 I never cease to be amazed at how so many writers that are new to me can come up with such descriptive language. \u00a0 I want to read it again, but I know someone at the library wants it next! \u00a0 I may get it on my Ipad so I can just keep looking at it. \u00a0 \u00a0Just the things he has to say about life in general are worth reading over. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Here&#8217;s to lots of good summer reading! \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/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>Posted by Betsy Karch Wilson I have read Magggie&#8217;s Seating Arrangement, and will look forward to this one! \u00a0 She \u00a0does paint very colorful characters! \u00a0I \u00a0just finished another great new book . \u00a0 \u00a0 It is All the Light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/betsy-karch-wilson-2\/\">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-2098","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\/2098","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=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}