{"id":10917,"date":"2022-02-18T08:27:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2022-02-18T08:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T13:47:04","slug":"mix-mornings-book-club-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/blogs\/mornings\/2022\/02\/mix-mornings-book-club-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix Mornings BOOK CLUB &#8211; Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay&#8217;s Review #4:\u00a0 <strong>Skeleton Crew<\/strong> by <em>Stephen King<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let me say first, I&#8217;m a pretty big Stephen King fan.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not the <em>greatest<\/em> writer in the world but the dude can tell a story.\u00a0 In the mid 80&#8217;s he was topping bestsellers list with novels like <em>It, Tommyknockers, Christine,<\/em> and <em>Pet Semetary,\u00a0<\/em>so it makes sense that his publishers would jump at the chance to publish a collection of short stories.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a copy of <em>Skeleton Crew\u00a0<\/em>on my bookshelf since I was a kid but just decided to read it straight through last week, and let me tell you this.\u00a0 It&#8217;s OK.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 22 stories, half of them are kind of a waste of time.\u00a0 Ones I enjoyed include <em>The Monkey<\/em> (about a scary monkey doll), <em>Gramma<\/em> (about a scary gramma), and<em> Survivor Type<\/em> (about a guy who eats himself to stay alive).\u00a0 Sometimes fun and frequently twisted, Monkey Shines is a decent read for a stormy night but don&#8217;t go out of your way.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10918\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2022\/02\/681f85f0-jay4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tori&#8217;s review #4:\u00a0 <b>The Four Winds\u00a0<\/b>by <em>Kristin Hannah<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10920\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2022\/02\/702b38e7-tori-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay&#8217;s Review #4:\u00a0 Skeleton Crew by Stephen King Let me say first, I&#8217;m a pretty big Stephen King fan.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not the greatest writer in the world but the dude can tell a story.\u00a0 In the mid 80&#8217;s he was topping bestsellers list with novels like It, Tommyknockers, Christine, and Pet Semetary,\u00a0so it makes sense","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":10919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 01:26:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/mix967.ca\/blogs\/mornings\/2022\/02\/mix-mornings-book-club-week-5\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10921,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions\/10921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chyrfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}