{"id":488,"date":"2023-06-12T08:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=488"},"modified":"2023-06-12T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T12:54:01","slug":"matt-brolly-the-running-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Matt Brolly ~ The Running Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F488&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F488&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p>First time reading this author.\u00a0 I believe it is an Amazon First Read.\u00a0 Started on <strong>5\/30\/2023<\/strong>.\u00a0 So far chapters seem short.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know about characters yet. <strong>6\/12\/2023<\/strong> and I finished the book today.\u00a0 For me it was just OK.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll give it a <strong>6\/10<\/strong>.\u00a0 The story seemed to stretch a bit when the author added a hurricane to the mix.\u00a0 Laurie, the main character and her husband David lost their baby to a still birth.\u00a0 David&#8217;s father was in prison for 16 years for a crime he actually didn&#8217;t commit.\u00a0 Frank (David&#8217;s father) comes back to Galveston and remembers he had a girlfriend in high school who was sick with a non curable disease.\u00a0 Things get lost in to many characters and to many different story lines going at once. <strong>14 days to finish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-489\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/therunninggirls.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First time reading this author.\u00a0 I believe it is an Amazon First Read.\u00a0 Started on 5\/30\/2023.\u00a0 So far chapters seem short.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know about characters yet. 6\/12\/2023 and I finished the book today.\u00a0 For me it was just OK.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll give it a 6\/10.\u00a0 The story seemed to stretch a bit when the author added &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matt Brolly ~ The Running Girls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattsbookreview","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}