{"id":10847,"date":"2016-06-18T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T01:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10847"},"modified":"2016-06-18T20:18:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T01:18:52","slug":"a-spool-of-blue-thread-by-anne-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10847","title":{"rendered":"A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Recently Added-69\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/27142774363\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/8\/7467\/27142774363_46c24d6afe_z.jpg\" alt=\"Recently Added-69\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The purple tag is from the Tulsa library.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I read a lot, we are one of the few families in America who get a newspaper delivered every day plus I read the online New York Times, and I get several magazines. Most of the time I have two books going, one nonfiction and one fiction. Every once in a while though I start reading a book where I shut down all my other reading and other activities until I finish it and<a href=\"http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/author\/31626\/anne-tyler\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Anne Tyler<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spool-Blue-Thread-Novel\/dp\/0553394398\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1466298312&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+spool+of+blue+thread\" target=\"_blank\">A Spool of Blue Thread<\/a>&#8221; is such a book. I quit all my other reading and a lot of other activities just to read this saga of the Whitshank family.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this may be one of those books where everybody gets something different out of the book. What I got was a family where everybody is a little different but there is a common thread between them. It is also a book about people and how they can change but basically stay the same. It is a book about families and the myths they have about themselves and how they think those myths make them exceptional. I loved this book. It may be one of the best books I have ever read. So I recommend it highly!<\/p>\n<p>I got this copy from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsalibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Tulsa Library<\/a>, for free!! I work that free angle hard because I am kind of cheap I guess. Plus I like to support our libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a lot, we are one of the few families in America who get a newspaper delivered every day plus I read the online New York Times, and I get several magazines. Most of the time I have two books going, one nonfiction and one fiction. Every once in a while though I start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[1735,1324,1734,1369],"class_list":["post-10847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-anne-tyler","tag-books","tag-literary-fiction","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10848,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions\/10848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}