{"id":2035,"date":"2011-08-22T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T03:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2011-08-22T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T03:36:15","slug":"from-my-bookshelf-the-book-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/from-my-bookshelf-the-book-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"From my Bookshelf: &#8220;The Book Thief&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0&#8220;I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014 Markus Zusak<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2067\" title=\"JSP_4577\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JSP_4577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"910\" height=\"606\" \/>Last night, I finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/19063.The_Book_Thief\">&#8216;The Book Thief&#8221;<\/a>&#8230;while on my way home, on the train, between traffic lights and while walking (you see, I can be pretty good at reading while walking and never stumble at anything&#8230;not yet so far! hehe)&#8230;.and then, I had to stop, everything around me sort of stopped , too and in a slow motion as it felt like, I flipped on that last page, under a lamp post, few blocks away yet from our apartment. I deeply sighed and felt my heart squeezed. Like how squeezed it was when husband left for a business trip in Sydney last Sat night and wishing terribly he gets back home soon. =)<\/p>\n<p>This book was life-changing in many ways. Probably as life-changing as &#8216;The Diary of Anne Frank&#8217;. I knew her story but I haven&#8217;t read the book yet. So anyway, I have just picked &#8216;The Book Thief&#8217; up at Barnes &amp; Noble last July during my CA trip inspired from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasminestarblog.com\/index.cfm?postID=984&amp;good-reads-the-book-thief-one-day\">Jasmine Star&#8217;s recommendation<\/a>. I asked the lady at the bookstore if they had a copy and she told me to go to the Young Adult section. And I thought why would it be categorized there but I bought it anyway. To be honest, I&#8217;ve been slow at reading this (actually really slow in general that I have few more books from my shelf already screaming &#8216;pick me pick me!&#8217;) but it wasn&#8217;t until I&#8217;ve reached the 204th page that I couldn&#8217;t put down this book anymore.\u00a0And in the end, it was all heartbreaking but heartwarming all at the same time. It&#8217;s one of those books that make you miss your favorite characters in the story.\u00a0 And now, I&#8217;m hungry as the book thief\u00a0 to eat more words.<\/p>\n<p>So tell me, what book are you currently reading now? =)<\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.&#8221; \u2014 Markus Zusak Last night, I finished reading &#8216;The Book Thief&#8221;&#8230;while on my way home, on the train, between traffic lights and while walking (you see, I can be pretty good at reading while walking and never stumble &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-2035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-from-my-bookshelf","8":"tag-mark-zusak","9":"tag-the-book-thief"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JSP_4577.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}