{"id":2459,"date":"2014-08-06T09:56:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2014-08-06T09:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:56:46","slug":"a-book-shout-out-cuckoo-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/a-book-shout-out-cuckoo-song\/","title":{"rendered":"A book shout-out: <i>Cuckoo Song<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It always makes me sad when I read a book that is really lovely, and notice that not many people seem to be talking about it.  So I&#8217;m going to try and be both a better blogger and a better book-supporter, and give a shout-out whenever one of those books comes along.  <\/p>\n<p>Today I want to encourage you to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0330519735\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0330519735&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=megcreanoworn-20&#038;linkId=OV6IBVOPFWHQSOAS\"><i>Cuckoo Song<\/i><\/a> by Frances Hardinge:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0330519735\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0330519735&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=megcreanoworn-20&#038;linkId=OV6IBVOPFWHQSOAS\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blogpics\/cuckoo.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been meaning to read something by Hardinge for quite a while&#8211;I have her <i>Fly By Night<\/i> in my massive ebook backlog.  When a trusted friend highly recced <i>Cuckoo Song<\/i>, the description caught my interest immediately, and I dove right in.<\/p>\n<p>So glad I did!<\/p>\n<p>Why should you read it?  For the beautiful writing, the unique world-building that&#8217;s so well-integrated into the real world setting, and for the complexity and depth to all the characters and their changing relationships in the midst of this suspenseful adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Any books you&#8217;d like to give a shout-out to this week?  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always makes me sad when I read a book that is really lovely, and notice that not many people seem to be talking about it. So I&#8217;m going to try and be both a better blogger and a better &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/a-book-shout-out-cuckoo-song\/\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459"}],"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=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}