{"id":537,"date":"2009-10-31T13:09:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T18:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2009-10-31T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T18:09:34","slug":"how-beautiful-the-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/537","title":{"rendered":"How Beautiful the Ordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>Cart, Michael. <em>How Beautiful the Ordinary: twelve stories of identity<\/em>.\u00a0 October 2009. 368 p. Harper Teen, $16.99 (978-0-06-115498-0). Gr. 9-12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Users\/Michael\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-5.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Users\/Michael\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-6.png\" alt=\"\" \/><a id=\"ctl01_ContentPlaceHolder1_lnkJacket\" href=\"http:\/\/browseinside.harpercollins.com\/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061154980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/harperimages\/isbn\/medium\/0\/9780061154980.jpg\" alt=\"How Beautiful the Ordinary By Michael Cart, Francesca Lia Block, David Levithan, Ron Koertge, Eric Shanower, Julie Anne Peters, Jennifer Finney Boylan, William Sleater\" width=\"103\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Watching two lovers exchange words in the night.\u00a0 The excitement of your first kiss, your first sexual experience, your first Dyke March.\u00a0 Meeting someone new on myspace.\u00a0 The stories from Michael Cart&#8217;s new collection relate to the variety of identities and experiences in the LGBTQ community: transgendered, gay, lesbian, questioning\u00a0, but also the variety of experiences of being human: love, regret, betrayal, discovery.\u00a0 Contributors include well known names from young adult literature: Francesca Lia Block, Margo Lanagan, David Levithan, Jackie Woodson, Julie Ann Peters, and Gregory Maguire.\u00a0 Most of the entries are short stories, but Cart has included two graphic stories and a novella (Maguire&#8217;s piece).\u00a0 While\u00a0the reader will\u00a0have\u00a0 favorites among the collection, it would be difficult to think of one that\u00a0was not worth the read.\u00a0 Not only is each strong in language and character, all the stories are true page turners, with the reader hardly able to wait to see what happens on the next page or in the next story. &#8212;<em>Michael Santangelo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cart, Michael. How Beautiful the Ordinary: twelve stories of identity.\u00a0 October 2009. 368 p. Harper Teen, $16.99 (978-0-06-115498-0). Gr. 9-12. Watching two lovers exchange words in the night.\u00a0 The excitement of your first kiss, your first sexual experience, your first Dyke March.\u00a0 Meeting someone new on myspace.\u00a0 The stories from Michael Cart&#8217;s new collection relate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[96,171],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-how-beautiful-the-ordinary","tag-michael-santangelo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}