{"id":502,"date":"2011-01-26T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:10:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:10:50","slug":"the-book-of-lost-things-by-john-connolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-534 size-full\" title=\"The Book of Lost Things\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the-book-of-lost-things.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A coming-of-age tale centered upon young David, who has lost his mother and resents his new stepmother and baby brother.\u00a0 Trying to escape his circumstances, David stumbles into an eerie fairy tale world of knights and beasts much like those in the stories his mother used to recount.\u00a0 David sets out on a quest to find the king, whose Book of Lost Things holds the secret to his return home and, David hopes, perhaps even to his mother&#8217;s return to life. \u00a0Reminiscent at times of Lewis&#8217;s Narnia, at others of the Brothers Grimm, <em>The Book of Lost Things <\/em>will resonate with those who still believe in the magic of childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coming-of-age tale centered upon young David, who has lost his mother and resents his new stepmother and baby brother.\u00a0 Trying to escape his circumstances, David stumbles into an eerie fairy tale world of knights and beasts much like those in the stories his mother used to recount.\u00a0 David sets out on a quest to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}