{"id":249,"date":"2009-07-14T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-07-14T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:44:28","slug":"the-trouble-with-emily-dickinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/249","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Emily Dickinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/this-is-it-the-trouble-with-emily-dickinson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-250\" title=\"the trouble with emily dickinson\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/this-is-it-the-trouble-with-emily-dickinson.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"the trouble with emily dickinson\" width=\"104\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/this-is-it-the-trouble-with-emily-dickinson.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/this-is-it-the-trouble-with-emily-dickinson-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/this-is-it-the-trouble-with-emily-dickinson-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><\/a><strong> <\/strong>D&#8217;Arcangelo, Lyndsey.\u00a0 <em>The Trouble with Emily Dickinson<\/em>. Alpha World Press,<br \/>\nOct. 2008.\u00a0\u00a0 978-0-9821044-0-8.\u00a0 Grades 8 to 12.<\/p>\n<p>I almost didn&#8217;t include a photo of the cover for this book because it&#8217;s so, um, ugly.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a shame, because the book itself is charming.\u00a0 The publishers compare the story to Romeo and Juliet,\u00a0 but I think I would compare this title to that other &#8220;classic&#8221;\u00a0 we all know, <em>Annie On My Mind<\/em>.\u00a0 Yes, that classic 20th century love story is retold in a sweet, somewhat\u00a0 utopian story about students at a boarding school who are just trying to figure out who they are, and who they love.\u00a0 Nothing bad happens to any of the characters, and even when bad things happen, the problems get ironed-out in healthy, positive ways.\u00a0 Utopia, right?\u00a0 Both the youngsters and the adults behave appropriately for the most part, and that&#8217;s ok.\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s nice to read a &#8220;problem&#8221; novel where good things happen to good people, including the popular ones&#8211;enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Arla Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D&#8217;Arcangelo, Lyndsey.\u00a0 The Trouble with Emily Dickinson. Alpha World Press, Oct. 2008.\u00a0\u00a0 978-0-9821044-0-8.\u00a0 Grades 8 to 12. I almost didn&#8217;t include a photo of the cover for this book because it&#8217;s so, um, ugly.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a shame, because the book itself is charming.\u00a0 The publishers compare the story to Romeo and Juliet,\u00a0 but I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}