{"id":541,"date":"2012-12-06T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T06:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2012-12-06T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T06:38:49","slug":"a-monster-calls-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/a-monster-calls-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monster Calls; Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8621462-a-monster-calls\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1331787035m\/8621462.jpg\" alt=\"A Monster Calls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8621462-a-monster-calls\">A Monster Calls<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/370361.Patrick_Ness\">Patrick Ness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/471012641\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book will rend your heart and then heal it.<\/p>\n<p>If you have ever had to watch helplessly as someone you love is slowly taken away from you by a long-term sickness or health issue, then this book will resonate deeply with you. It is not a difficult read and can be finished in a day or two, but the message is deep. How do you forgive yourself when you simply want to let go&#8230; when you have hung onto the hope of recovery for so long that it has exhausted the last morsel of strength from your soul and you have to admit that you are ready to move on to the last chapter.<\/p>\n<p>This book speaks to the exhaustion of caregivers, their resilience and pain, and the stages of grief that they begin to endure even before the one that they love has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The illustrated version is excellent with evocative, expressive drawings throughout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/14888405-ruth-ione\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book will rend your heart and then heal it. If you have ever had to watch helplessly as someone you love is slowly taken away from you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/a-monster-calls-book-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,104,103,105,106,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}