{"id":3103,"date":"2015-02-12T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:13:52","slug":"the-f-it-list-by-julie-halpern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"The F- It List by Julie Halpern"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I read this book in early fall, but I felt like it would make a good January post. \u00a0You know, with people making New Year’s resolutions about living their best lives<\/em> and all?\u00a0 After almost losing my father in September, this book really resonated with me. \u00a0I know it sounds super clich\u00e9, but both my real life experience and this book reminded me of just how short life can be — and how often we waste our time and energy on things that don’t even truly matter.\u00a0 Sometimes, you just have to say “F- IT!”<\/p>\n

After Alex’s father died, she had a major falling out with her best friend, Becca.\u00a0 The formerly inseparable friends were estranged for the entire summer, but Alex decided she was ready to forgive Becca at the start of the new school year. \u00a0The only problem? \u00a0Becca had recently been diagnosed with cancer, and their non-communication meant that Alex didn’t even know. \u00a0As they began to heal their broken friendship, the girls decided to make the best of the (potentially short) time Becca had left by working together to complete the wish list of sorts Becca had started compiling as a tween.\u00a0 They don’t like the term “bucket<\/em> list,” though, and decide to call it a “F- It” list instead. \u00a0Infused throughout with humor and romance, this is SO much more than a sob story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this book in early fall, but I felt like it would make a good January post. \u00a0You know, with people making New Year’s resolutions about living their best lives and all?\u00a0 After almost losing my father in September, this book really resonated with me. \u00a0I know it sounds super clich\u00e9, but both my … Continue reading The F- It List by Julie Halpern<\/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-3103","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\/3103","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=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}