{"id":20979,"date":"2023-12-27T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20979"},"modified":"2023-12-25T12:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T18:24:48","slug":"book-58-of-52-i-have-some-questions-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/book-58-of-52-i-have-some-questions-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 58 (of 52) &#8211; I Have Some Questions For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20980\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/somequestions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20980\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20980\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/somequestions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/somequestions.jpg 331w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/somequestions-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Have Some Questions For You &#8211; Rebecca Makkai<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A successful podcaster returns to her New Hampshire boarding school to teach a two-week class, becoming drawn to the unanswered questions surrounding the death of her former roommate.\u00a0 Falling down the rabbit hole, she teams up with two students, who started a podcast on the story for their class project, to dig deeper into the case, hoping to find enough evidence to spur a new trial.\u00a0 When a hunch leads to a big break in the case, they get a hearing to argue for a new trial and may have actually identified the real killer, but will that be enough?<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Makkai&#8217;s <em>I Have Some Questions for You<\/em> came to my attention after being nominated for Best Mystery &amp; Thriller in the Goodreads Choice Awards.\u00a0 I liked the concept, but the execution was a little lacking.\u00a0 The ending could have been tightened up a bit and, overall, there was a lot of superfluous fat that padded out the story with no real benefit to the overall tale.\u00a0 This was my first experience with Makkai&#8217;s work and I&#8217;m not sure when. or if, I&#8217;ll get back to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A successful podcaster returns to her New Hampshire boarding school to teach a two-week class, becoming drawn to the unanswered questions surrounding the death of her former roommate.\u00a0 Falling down the rabbit hole, she teams up with two students, who started a podcast on the story for their class project, to dig deeper into the [&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":[9295,10824,10823],"class_list":["post-20979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-i-have-some-questions-for-you","tag-rebecca-makkai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20979","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=20979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20981,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20979\/revisions\/20981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}