{"id":22487,"date":"2025-02-06T06:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22487"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:25:40","slug":"book-6-of-52-funny-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/book-6-of-52-funny-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 6 (of 52) &#8211; Funny Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22499\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/funnystory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22499\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/funnystory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/funnystory.jpg 424w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/funnystory-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Funny Story &#8211; Emily Henry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Daphne&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 Peter breaks up with her for his childhood best friend Petra, she is forced to move in with Miles, Petra&#8217;s ex-fianc\u00e9.\u00a0 After an unexpected invitation shows up for Peter and Petra&#8217;s wedding, a drunken Daphne jokingly responds that she and Miles will be attending, as a couple.\u00a0 The more time they spend together, though, Daphne finds herself falling for Miles.\u00a0 Despite their mutual attraction, they decide to just be friends.\u00a0 When a new job opportunity pops up, Daphne has to decide if she wants to stay and explore things with Miles or move away and start over once again.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>Funny Story<\/em> by Emily Henry took home the 2024 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance, I remembered enjoying the only other book of hers I had <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/book-57-of-52-happy-place\/\">read<\/a> and decided to give it a go, despite romance not really being my genre. Picking it up as my first use of my new Frankfort library card, it was a fun, if fairly obvious, tale and another enjoyable read. I don\u2019t know how much I will dip my toes back into the romance pool going forward, but this trip, once again, was worth the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Daphne&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 Peter breaks up with her for his childhood best friend Petra, she is forced to move in with Miles, Petra&#8217;s ex-fianc\u00e9.\u00a0 After an unexpected invitation shows up for Peter and Petra&#8217;s wedding, a drunken Daphne jokingly responds that she and Miles will be attending, as a couple.\u00a0 The more time they spend [&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":[10821,11758,11783,9295],"class_list":["post-22487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-emily-henry","tag-frankfort-public-library","tag-funny-story","tag-goodreads-choice-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487","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=22487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22501,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487\/revisions\/22501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}