{"id":4147,"date":"2016-06-04T20:08:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T20:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2016-06-04T20:08:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T20:08:28","slug":"doctor-sleep-by-stephen-king-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4147","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Sleep by Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4164\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1530197\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4164\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Doctor-Sleep-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor Sleep\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Doctor-Sleep-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Doctor-Sleep.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I took a long break from Stephen King, so when I heard that he was writing this book I was very excited. \u00a0<em>The Shining<\/em> was a great book, so I was intrigued as to how he would pick up the story of Danny Torrance all grown up.\u00a0 This book did not disappoint me at all.\u00a0 Dan struggles with a drinking problem just like his Dad did in <em>The Shining<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0As he struggles with that, he&#8217;s suppressed his &#8220;shine.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0His friend from the Overlook Hotel, Dick Hallorann, makes a return visit in this book, and he serves as the conduit between past and future.\u00a0\u00a0Since Dick cannot be with Dan to face these new demons, a new character arrives on the scene that has the &#8220;shine&#8221; even stronger than his own.\u00a0 The monsters in the story are appropriately creepy and scary.\u00a0\u00a0 I would recommend this sequel If you&#8217;re a King fan, and especially if you loved <em>The Shining<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a long break from Stephen King, so when I heard that he was writing this book I was very excited. \u00a0The Shining was a great book, so I was intrigued as to how he would pick up the story of Danny Torrance all grown up.\u00a0 This book did not disappoint me at all.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doctor Sleep by Stephen King<\/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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviewed-by-chris-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","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=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}