{"id":2009,"date":"2012-06-19T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2012-06-19T13:06:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:06:58","slug":"home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/home-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Home again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back!  Got in from Istanbul last night; still recovering from the time change.  I expect to have a trip report written up with lots of pretty pics in the next week or so.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;d like to share a few recs with you.  As well as sightseeing, I used my vacation time to catch up on my reading, which has sadly fallen behind at home.  I read eight books and started a ninth in the twenty days I was gone.  Lots of good stories, but my absolute favorite of the bunch, the best book I&#8217;ve read so far all year, is Elizabeth Wein&#8217;s <i>Code Name Verity<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/covers.powells.com\/9781423152194.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably already heard lots of wonderful things about this book.  They are true.  All I&#8217;ll say for myself is the book has so many elements I love in fiction but haven&#8217;t seen a lot of in YA lately: a story focused more on friendship than romance, strong but not invulnerable female main characters, unreliable narration, and heart-wrenching sacrifices.  *happy sigh*<\/p>\n<p>I also managed to stumble on some new music to put on repeat.  Somehow I never happened to listen to Sara Bareilles before now, and her new EP is just lovely.  Particularly fond of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AJycDeZqtdc\">&#8220;Bright Lights and Cityscapes&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8VRuxhc6zSY\">&#8220;Lie To Me&#8221;<\/a>.  Give &#8217;em a listen!<\/p>\n<p>What have you been reading and listening to while I was gone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back! Got in from Istanbul last night; still recovering from the time change. I expect to have a trip report written up with lots of pretty pics in the next week or so. \ud83d\ude42 In the meantime, I&#8217;d like &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/home-again\/\">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":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}