{"id":11481,"date":"2016-12-14T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11481"},"modified":"2016-12-14T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:09:20","slug":"book-27-of-52-pretty-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/book-27-of-52-pretty-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 27 (of 52) &#8211; Pretty Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11482\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/prettybaby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11482\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/prettybaby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/prettybaby.jpg 332w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/prettybaby-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretty Baby &#8211; Mary Kubica<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last December, I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/book-29-of-52-the-good-girl\/\">debut novel<\/a> from Chicago-based novelist Mary Kubica.\u00a0 Based on the strength of that work, I purchased her next two offerings over the past year and finally decided it was time to break in to one.\u00a0 Sadly, it was a bit of a let down.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pretty Baby<\/em> tells the tale, slowly, of a Chicago family, a runaway with a baby, and the slow descent into madness that comes from their intersection.\u00a0 The only plot point that comes as something of a surprise is the parentage of the baby, but the twist wasn&#8217;t all that interesting.\u00a0 Also, and I don&#8217;t know if this was an issue with the print version as well as the eBook, but the name of Halsted St. was consistently misspelled.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure this bothered nobody outside of the Chicagoland area, but bother me it did.<\/p>\n<p>I still have Kubica&#8217;s latest waiting on the Kindle, though I&#8217;m not particularly looking forward to it at this point.\u00a0 I can only hope that she returns to the promise of her previous work and that this isn&#8217;t an indicator of what is to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, I read the debut novel from Chicago-based novelist Mary Kubica.\u00a0 Based on the strength of that work, I purchased her next two offerings over the past year and finally decided it was time to break in to one.\u00a0 Sadly, it was a bit of a let down. Pretty Baby tells the tale, slowly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2889,6225,7042],"class_list":["post-11481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-kindle","tag-mary-kubica","tag-pretty-baby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}