{"id":4,"date":"2011-03-17T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2011-03-20T22:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:43:13","slug":"what-ive-been-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/2011\/03\/17\/what-ive-been-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t eat and read!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve just finished reading Grass<\/strong> by Cathy MacPhail<\/strong>.\u00a0 It was a real page turner – I genuinely couldn’t put it down (which explains the slight smudges of beetroot juice from my sandwich).<\/p>\n

It’s all about a boy who witnesses a murder and his choice not to grass (hence the title) on the murderer and the consequences this has for both him and his family.\u00a0 It’s a really convincing portrayal of the dilemmas he faces.\u00a0 You see him being sucked in to the world of the gangland leaders and understand how easy it is for him to justify his actions.<\/p>\n

I’d really recommend it to all readers, especially S1-S3.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just finished reading Grass by Cathy MacPhail.\u00a0 It was a real page turner – I genuinely couldn’t put it down (which explains the slight smudges of beetroot juice from my sandwich). It’s all about a boy who witnesses a murder and his choice not to grass (hence the title) on the murderer and the … Continue reading Don’t eat and read!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1109,104,1110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-crime","category-thriller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}