{"id":9929,"date":"2015-07-10T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T17:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2015-07-11T22:10:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T03:10:16","slug":"9929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9929","title":{"rendered":"The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/19393728668\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/538\/19393728668_84d0976f3a_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by <a href=\"http:\/\/gabriellezevin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gabrielle Zevin<\/a> is one of those books that is hard for me to categorize. A.J. Fikry is a widowed book seller in a small island town and is pretty darn prickly. The book opens with a pretty young publisher rep coming to present her employers line of books for the upcoming season and he pretty much throws her out after demeaning and insulting her. Then I find out that he is only in his 40&#8217;s which speaking as a sometimes crusty guy myself, that is way too young to be that crusty.<\/p>\n<p>And then the storied part comes. Somebody steals a prized, very valuable book from him, somebody else leaves a baby in the store that he decides to raise and then the the pretty young bookseller comes back into the story. Given all that, I wouldn&#8217;t call this a &#8220;heart warming book&#8221; it is about a life that is lived with ups and downs and two steps backwards for every step forward. I loved the book and hated when it ended.<\/p>\n<p>It is a rare book that me, my wife, and my MIL all loved. I&#8217;d loan you the copy I read but MIL wants it back.<\/p>\n<p>I give it five stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin is one of those books that is hard for me to categorize. A.J. Fikry is a widowed book seller in a small island town and is pretty darn prickly. The book opens with a pretty young publisher rep coming to present her employers line of books [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[1324,1207,1140,1369],"class_list":["post-9929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-fiction","tag-novels","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=9929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9935,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}