{"id":6294,"date":"2017-01-12T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T10:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2017-08-07T06:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:09:40","slug":"alarm-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6294","title":{"rendered":"Alarm Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Alarm-Girl-Hannah-Vincent\/dp\/1908434457\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Alarm-Girl-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"alarm-girl\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Alarm-Girl-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Alarm-Girl.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read this for Reading Group.  I chaired the meeting so ended up reading it quite in-depth; after I&#8217;d finished it I went back to the beginning and re-read a lot of it. <\/p>\n<p>Indigo seems very childish for an 11 year old.  I found her very irritating and sulky, although I liked the way she isn&#8217;t yet conditioned to be &#8216;nice&#8217; i.e. socially acceptable.  I enjoyed Karen&#8217;s story more.  Her timeline jumped around but it made more sense when I went through the book again.  The gradual uncovering of her illness was very clever.  Indy&#8217;s story is set in South Africa, which adds another element of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a decent coming-of-age story.  I don&#8217;t know if I would go so far as to recommend it, but I enjoyed reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this for Reading Group. I chaired the meeting so ended up reading it quite in-depth; after I&#8217;d finished it I went back to the beginning and re-read a lot of it. Indigo seems very childish for an 11 year old. I found her very irritating and sulky, although I liked the way she isn&#8217;t [&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-6294","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\/6294","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=6294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}