{"id":322,"date":"2005-05-23T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=322"},"modified":"2005-05-23T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T00:59:00","slug":"balogh_mary_sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/05\/balogh_mary_sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Balogh, Mary: Summer to Remember, A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"111689654162857012\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_111689654162857012\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Library romance roundup:<\/p>\n<p>First, pre-cruise, we have <strong>Mary Balogh&#8217;s <cite>A Summer to Remember<\/cite><\/strong>, via a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/asperityq\/36937.html\">review from Asperity on LJ<\/a>. This is a Regency novel (unlike the rest in this roundup, which are contemporary). Yeah, it&#8217;s got some very well-worn elements, a bet and a pretend engagement and a rake and an innocent, but it&#8217;s charming and humane all the same, with consequences, family relationships, and eventually a mutual rescue. It does have a bit of the sequel nature, in that it assumes a little too much that the reader will know everyone&#8217;s name and relationships, but it was otherwise a smooth read.<\/p>\n<p>(I read a bunch of Balogh&#8217;s other books in a gulp and got sick of the plots, so I put them aside and will try them again later in a more measured fashion.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library romance roundup: First, pre-cruise, we have Mary Balogh&#8217;s A Summer to Remember, via a review from Asperity on LJ. This is a Regency novel (unlike the rest in this roundup, which are contemporary). Yeah, it&#8217;s got some very well-worn elements, a bet and a pretend engagement and a rake and an innocent, but it&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/05\/balogh_mary_sum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balogh, Mary: Summer to Remember, A&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,12],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-romance","tag-balogh-mary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}