{"id":823,"date":"2011-12-05T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-12-04T22:09:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T04:09:30","slug":"books-read-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/books-read-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6148028-catching-fire\">Catching Fire<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7260188-mockingjay\">Mockingjay<\/a>, Suzanne Collins<\/p>\n<p>After reading the comments on my previous post, I decided to read the second two books in the Hunger Games trilogy. Loved them. And I can see why many people hated the third book&#8211;according to the Amazon reviews, for many of the reasons that I liked it (mainly the main characters&#8217; actions and reactions).<\/p>\n<p>It actually ended up a little less dark than I had expected&#8211;not to spoil anything, I&#8217;ll just say there was one line in Catching Fire that I thought was foreshadowing things turning out very bad. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2744.Anansi_Boys\">Anansi Boys<\/a>, Neil Gaiman <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I read American Gods, but I have the feeling I liked this one better. It was, at least, a nice change to read something relatively cheerful and humorous.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching Fire and Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins After reading the comments on my previous post, I decided to read the second two books in the Hunger Games trilogy. Loved them. And I can see why many people hated the third book&#8211;according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/books-read-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}