{"id":10215,"date":"2021-05-27T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:15:48","slug":"sometimes-i-lie-by-alice-feeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/27\/sometimes-i-lie-by-alice-feeney\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sometimes I Lie&#8221; by Alice Feeney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41u+DbiSFIL._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"266\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sometimes-I-Lie-ALICE-FEENEY\/dp\/125014485X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=33BAAYT0UC7FH&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=sometimes+i+lie&amp;qid=1622120785&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=sometimes+%2Caps%2C285&amp;sr=1-1\">Copyright 2018 by Alice Feeney.  Published by Flatiron Books, New York.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Occasionally I read a book that I admire but have a hard time recommending.  This is one of them.  The problems I have with the book are (1) there are no likable characters and (2) I found the jumping around in time &#8211; from 1991 to 2016 &#8211; to be distracting.  That said, I have to admire the author&#8217;s craftsmanship.  She worked hard at developing an intense story and manages to tell it with some major plot twists that she keeps well-concealed.  So I admire the book but didn&#8217;t like reading it very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright 2018 by Alice Feeney. Published by Flatiron Books, New York. Occasionally I read a book that I admire but have a hard time recommending. This is one of them. The problems I have with the book are (1) there are no likable characters and (2) I found the jumping around in time &#8211; from &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/27\/sometimes-i-lie-by-alice-feeney\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2EL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10217,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions\/10217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}