{"id":4269,"date":"2016-12-19T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2016-12-19T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:49:15","slug":"memoirs-of-an-imaginary-friend-by-matthew-dicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4269","title":{"rendered":"Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4306\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1499696\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4306\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Memoirs-of-an-Imaginary-Friend-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"memoirs-of-an-imaginary-friend\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Memoirs-of-an-Imaginary-Friend-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Memoirs-of-an-Imaginary-Friend.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have never read a book like this before. \u00a0It was recommended to me\u00a0by a\u00a0friend, so I took it on vacation and finished it during the week I was away.\u00a0 <span id=\"reviewTextContainer445428932\" class=\"readable\"><span id=\"freeText4533159463355394942\">The narrator\u00a0throughout\u00a0is Budo, the imaginary friend of Max, an eight-year-old autistic boy who &#8220;imagined&#8221; Budo 5 years earlier.\u00a0 Budo watches over Max, but being imaginary, cannot make his presence felt in the real world. This becomes a problem when Max is in real danger and Budo must find a way to help his friend.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"reviewTextContainer787523148\" class=\"readable\"><span id=\"freeText1807633747120010426\">The author has created\u00a0a world of\u00a0Imaginary Friends\u00a0that is\u00a0fascinating and well thought out, and his understanding of little boys like Max is also incredible.\u00a0 Budo&#8217;s biggest fear is that he will fade away into nothingness as all imaginary friends eventually do when kids grow up and stop believing in them.\u00a0 The bond between this special &#8220;imaginary&#8221; friend and the love he feels for the boy who created him makes this such a wonderful story.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never read a book like this before. \u00a0It was recommended to me\u00a0by a\u00a0friend, so I took it on vacation and finished it during the week I was away.\u00a0 The narrator\u00a0throughout\u00a0is Budo, the imaginary friend of Max, an eight-year-old autistic boy who &#8220;imagined&#8221; Budo 5 years earlier.\u00a0 Budo watches over Max, but being imaginary, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks<\/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-4269","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\/4269","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=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}