{"id":3880,"date":"2015-09-03T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2015-09-03T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:25:16","slug":"love-may-fail-by-matthew-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3880","title":{"rendered":"Love May Fail by Matthew Quick"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3936\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1605439\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3936\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Love-May-Fail-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191 \" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Love-May-Fail-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Love-May-Fail.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So if you like quirky, messed up and lost characters that are in search for something better in their lives, then you will enjoy this book, <em>Love May Fail<\/em>.\u00a0 I enjoyed how this book was told through the perspectives of four wildly diverse characters: Portia Kane, a woman in search of goodness in men, after she leaves her pornographic husband who is having an affair; Mr. Vernon, a former high school English teacher contemplating suicide after being attacked by a student; Chuck Bass, an ex-heroin addict turned elementary teacher, and the crazy nun who reaches out to her son on her deathbed.\u00a0 These four characters&#8217; lives\u00a0all intertwine as the story unfolds:\u00a0they search for love and a purpose in life to rekindle that spark. \u00a0If you liked the author&#8217;s <em>Silver Linings Playbook<\/em>, then you will enjoy this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So if you like quirky, messed up and lost characters that are in search for something better in their lives, then you will enjoy this book, Love May Fail.\u00a0 I enjoyed how this book was told through the perspectives of four wildly diverse characters: Portia Kane, a woman in search of goodness in men, after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love May Fail by Matthew Quick<\/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-3880","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\/3880","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=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}