{"id":2905,"date":"2014-10-02T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2015-03-30T22:25:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T22:25:02","slug":"big-little-lies-by-liane-moriarty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2905","title":{"rendered":"Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2918 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Big-Little-Lies.jpg\" alt=\"Big Little Lies\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This book tells the story of\u00a0three women who have children starting kindergarten together in an affluent Australian town.\u00a0 It starts at the school fundraiser, Trivia Night, where &#8220;something&#8221; has happened. \u00a0We get snippets from the witnesses as they talk to the police. \u00a0The book then jumps back six months,\u00a0and we see how the women meet and how their lives become entangled.<\/p>\n<p>With all the talk of helicopter parenting, this book covers those types of parents and more with humor, suspense and some tragedy. \u00a0I loved the\u00a0main characters and enjoyed following their stories and learning about their lives,\u00a0but I also enjoyed the humorous snippets throughout from the other parents.\u00a0 This is an easy, quick read that I ended up reading over a long weekend because I needed to know what that something was that happened at Trivia Night . A definite recommendation.\u00a0 I enjoyed Moriarty, \u00a0whom I had never read before.\u00a0 I\u00a0have now reserved one of her other novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book tells the story of\u00a0three women who have children starting kindergarten together in an affluent Australian town.\u00a0 It starts at the school fundraiser, Trivia Night, where &#8220;something&#8221; has happened. \u00a0We get snippets from the witnesses as they talk to the police. \u00a0The book then jumps back six months,\u00a0and we see how the women meet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty<\/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":[3,4,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","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=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}