{"id":2272,"date":"2014-03-06T17:09:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:46:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:46:14","slug":"somebody-up-there-hates-you-by-hollis-seamon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Somebody Up There Hates You by Hollis Seamon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2310 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Somebody-Up-There-Hates-You.jpg\" alt=\"Somebody Up There Hates You\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When people ask Richard Casey what\u2019s wrong with him, he likes to reply that he has SUTHY syndrome.\u00a0 He waits an uncomfortable beat and then explains that SUTHY stands for \u201cSomebody Up There Hates You.\u201d\u00a0 After all, what other reason would there be for a 17-year-old to be in hospice care with a terminal cancer diagnosis?\u00a0 If I hadn\u2019t already read John Green\u2019s <a title=\"The Fault in Our Stars by John Green\" href=\"http:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/14\/the-fault-in-our-stars-by-john-green\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Fault in Our Stars<\/em><\/a>, I may not have believed it was possible that Seamon could have written so much humor into this story.\u00a0 Between Rich\u2019s wry sense of humor and his bumbling romance with a girl named Sylvie [the only other teen in the hospice unit], I laughed out loud often enough that my cat gave up on falling asleep in my lap \u2014 and that never happens!\u00a0 If you already read <em>TFiOS<\/em> and need something to hold you over until the movie comes out in June, you will probably enjoy this story too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people ask Richard Casey what\u2019s wrong with him, he likes to reply that he has SUTHY syndrome.\u00a0 He waits an uncomfortable beat and then explains that SUTHY stands for \u201cSomebody Up There Hates You.\u201d\u00a0 After all, what other reason would there be for a 17-year-old to be in hospice care with a terminal cancer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somebody Up There Hates You by Hollis Seamon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}