{"id":3506,"date":"2012-11-06T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:55:36","slug":"the-death-and-life-of-charlie-st-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Death-Life-Charlie-Cloud\/dp\/0330488902\/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Charlie-St-Cloud-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Charlie St Cloud\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Charlie-St-Cloud-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Charlie-St-Cloud.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my reading group&#8217;s book of the month.  I read it last night in one sitting; it&#8217;s very easy to read.  It&#8217;s one of those books that reads more like a film than a novel, especially with its beautiful lead characters and dramatic settings.  I quite enjoyed the romantic aspect of it, which is very well handled; it feels fresh and innocent.  But overall this book isn&#8217;t for me.  It&#8217;s unchallenging and mawkish.  Also I couldn&#8217;t help thinking that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Lovely-Bones-Alice-Sebold\/dp\/0330485385\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1352202100&#038;sr=8-1\">The Lovely Bones<\/a> got there first with the idea of exploring the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>(43rd in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my reading group&#8217;s book of the month. I read it last night in one sitting; it&#8217;s very easy to read. It&#8217;s one of those books that reads more like a film than a novel, especially with its beautiful lead characters and dramatic settings. I quite enjoyed the romantic aspect of it, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}