{"id":4233,"date":"2016-10-18T17:57:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2016-10-18T17:57:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T17:57:26","slug":"me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-by-jesse-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4233","title":{"rendered":"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4259\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1485964\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4259\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Me-and-Earl-and-the-Dying-Girl-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Me-and-Earl-and-the-Dying-Girl-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Me-and-Earl-and-the-Dying-Girl.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This was my end of summer book to read.\u00a0\u00a0It didn&#8217;t take long at all to get through.\u00a0 You would find it in the YA section of the library but that doesn&#8217;t mean you shouldn&#8217;t seek it out as an adult reader.\u00a0 It deals with\u00a0a serious subject matter\u00a0with great humor.\u00a0\u00a0I felt that the\u00a0three main characters &#8212; Greg, Earl, and Rachel &#8212;\u00a0were appropriately portrayed as teenaged.\u00a0 They were not\u00a0as unrealistic as the characters in <em>The Fault In Our Stars.<\/em>\u00a0 I also felt that the author dealt with the relationship the kids had with their parents in a very mature and realistic manner.\u00a0\u00a0I also appreciated that the demise of Rachel was not a long, drawn out affair.\u00a0\u00a0For anyone who might not want to read the book, there is a movie that was made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my end of summer book to read.\u00a0\u00a0It didn&#8217;t take long at all to get through.\u00a0 You would find it in the YA section of the library but that doesn&#8217;t mean you shouldn&#8217;t seek it out as an adult reader.\u00a0 It deals with\u00a0a serious subject matter\u00a0with great humor.\u00a0\u00a0I felt that the\u00a0three main characters &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews<\/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":[3,6,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chris-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","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=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}