{"id":19942,"date":"2023-01-24T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19942"},"modified":"2023-01-24T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:53:04","slug":"book-4-of-52-malibu-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/book-4-of-52-malibu-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 4 (of 52) &#8211; Malibu Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19943\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maliburising.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19943\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19943\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maliburising.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maliburising.jpg 421w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maliburising-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malibu Rising &#8211; Taylor Jenkins Reid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the biggest stars in the world, Mick Riva is loved by everyone.\u00a0 Everyone, that is, except for his children, who he abandoned and hasn&#8217;t seen for years.\u00a0 After years of struggle, they have found successes of their own, leading to a yearly party that has grown along with their status in the enclave of Malibu.\u00a0 1983 promises to be the biggest party yet, but with each child reaching a turning point in their lives, can the re-emergence of their father cast a pall over where they are going next?<\/p>\n<p>I first became acquainted with the work of Taylor Jenkins Reid last year with <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/book-20-of-52-daisy-jones-the-six\/\"><em>Daisy Jones &amp; The Six<\/em><\/a>, which was one of, if not the best book I read all year.\u00a0 <em>Malibu Rising<\/em> is the follow-up to that book and again brings us behind the scenes of the rich and famous, focusing on the family left behind when someone becomes a big star.\u00a0 Reid has an ability to bring the past to life, whether it&#8217;s the underdeveloped Malibu of the 1950s and &#8217;60s or the home of the rich and famous it would become by the early &#8217;80s.\u00a0 I definitely look forward to whatever is next from her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest stars in the world, Mick Riva is loved by everyone.\u00a0 Everyone, that is, except for his children, who he abandoned and hasn&#8217;t seen for years.\u00a0 After years of struggle, they have found successes of their own, leading to a yearly party that has grown along with their status in the enclave [&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":[10027,10373,10028],"class_list":["post-19942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-daisy-jones-the-six","tag-malibu-rising","tag-taylor-jenkins-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19944,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19942\/revisions\/19944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}