{"id":3284,"date":"2016-08-30T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T16:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:33:27","slug":"3284-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/3284-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions from Reunion55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by Carol Benson from chat group emails after reunion. \u00a0Thanks, Carol:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayflower\u201d by Nathaniel Philbrick<br \/>\n&#8220;The All-Girls Filling Station\u2019s Last Reunion&#8221; by Fannie Flagg<br \/>\n&#8220;When Everything Changed\u201d by Gail Collins<br \/>\n&#8220;Not my Father\u2019s Son&#8221; by Alan Cummings<br \/>\n\u201cThe Girl Who Loved Baseball\u201d by Stephen King<br \/>\n&#8220;November 22, 1963\u201d by Stephen King<br \/>\n\u201cThe Green Mile\u201d by Stephen King<br \/>\n&#8220;Between the World and Me\u201d by Ta-Nahisi Coates<br \/>\n\u201cGhettoside\u201d by Jill Leowy<br \/>\n\u201cThe Turner House\u201d by Angela Floury<br \/>\n\u201cDead Wake:\u00a0 the Last Crossing of the Lusitania\u201d by Erik Larson<br \/>\n\u201cIn the Garden of the Beasts\u201d by Erik Larson<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0a P.S. from Rocki: \u00a0&#8220;Still hoping to find someone who has read my favorite snarky lit mystery whimsy\u2014 \u2018The Eyre Affair\u2019 by Jasper Fforde, which features female Special Ops Literary Detective\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Thursday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Next fighting the bad guys in a literary-centered Great Britain of the future.\u00a0 It is great fun for book groups, sending up sci fi, literary pretense, and I don\u2019t know what all!\u00a0 Somebody please try it!\u00a0 First of a series.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014Rocki Hill Hughes<\/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>Compiled by Carol Benson from chat group emails after reunion. \u00a0Thanks, Carol: \u201cMayflower\u201d by Nathaniel Philbrick &#8220;The All-Girls Filling Station\u2019s Last Reunion&#8221; by Fannie Flagg &#8220;When Everything Changed\u201d by Gail Collins &#8220;Not my Father\u2019s Son&#8221; by Alan Cummings \u201cThe Girl &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/3284-2\/\">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":"closed","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-3284","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\/3284","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=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}