{"id":85,"date":"2005-08-13T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2005-08-13T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T22:38:00","slug":"two-more-teen-summer-reading-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2005\/08\/two-more-teen-summer-reading-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more teen summer reading picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Hatching Magic<\/i> &#8211; Ann Downer, 2003<\/p>\n<p>Quite good fantasy set in modern-day Cambridge, MA (where we lived for many years). There are lots of references to familiar landmarks (the NECCO factory, Rosie&#8217;s, Harvard Square) which made it extra-enjoyable for me, and the depiction of the struggling academic lifestyle is accurate. The wyverns are believably animal-like as well as magical and seem like great pets!<\/p>\n<p><i>The Supernaturalist<\/i> &#8211; Eoin Colfer, 2004<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve yet to read any of the Artemis Fowl books, so I was glad to try something by Colfer. I didn&#8217;t like it much. It&#8217;s got the choppiness\/terseness I hate in much contemporary YA fiction, combined with a kind of macho action-overkill\/emotional flatness; beyond-bogus &#8220;science&#8221; (viruses that reproduce in millions instantly, for example); and a future world so dystopian that I couldn&#8217;t understand how the protagonists could even survive. Lots of the plot didn&#8217;t make much sense. Some good satirical bits though&#8211;for example, in this future world lawyers are like a private police force and paralegals are the muscle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hatching Magic &#8211; Ann Downer, 2003 Quite good fantasy set in modern-day Cambridge, MA (where we lived for many years). There are lots of references to familiar landmarks (the NECCO factory, Rosie&#8217;s, Harvard Square) which made it extra-enjoyable for me, and the depiction of the struggling academic lifestyle is accurate. The wyverns are believably animal-like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}