{"id":887,"date":"2010-12-01T22:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T02:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/01\/kathy-reichs-gift-idea\/"},"modified":"2010-12-02T19:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T23:50:37","slug":"kathy-reichs-gift-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/01\/kathy-reichs-gift-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Reichs&#8217; Holiday Gift Suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathyreichs.com\">Kathy Reichs<\/a> when she came to New York to have lunch with a few bookish sorts (librarians, journalists, that sort of crowd) and tell us about her first YA novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1595143424\"><i>Virals<\/i><\/a>. It&#8217;s a suspense-mystery with a twist: The crimesolvers are a pack of teenage boys and girls, and I use the term &#8220;pack&#8221; advisedly, because fairly early on, a canine parovirus gets into their DNA and&#8230; well, to avoid giving too much away, let&#8217;s just say their puberty involves more than the usual changes. (There&#8217;s also a tangential connection to her previous thrillers, as the teenage protagonist talks very early on about her famous aunt, Temperance Brennan&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, shortly after that lunch, I asked if Reichs had any holiday gift suggestions, and she was enthusiastic about the most recent John Irving novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0345479734\"><i>Last Night in Twisted River<\/i><\/a>. But she also wanted to mention another of her favorite Irving novels&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image993\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/kathy-reichs.jpg\" width=\"175\" alt=\"kathy-reichs.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0345418018\"><i>The World According to Garp<\/i><\/a> is one of my favorite books; its take on writing, and being a writer, always stuck with me. <i>Garp<\/i> is a book that can&#8217;t be summed up, it must be read cover to cover. Comedy and tragedy at the same time. A great choice for aspiring writers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Kathy Reichs when she came to New York to have lunch with a few bookish sorts (librarians, journalists, that sort of crowd) and tell us about her first YA novel, Virals. It&#8217;s a suspense-mystery with a twist: The crimesolvers are a pack of teenage boys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}