{"id":36,"date":"2008-07-26T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=36"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:08","slug":"lucy-sullivan-is-getting-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/lucy-sullivan-is-getting-married","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/tag\/5-hearts-award\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/5hearts.gif\" alt=\"Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married - 5 hearts award\" align=\"right\"><\/a>I love, love, love Marian Keyes&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060090375\/lawless03-20\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married<\/a>. Though it&#8217;s not perfect (see spoilers, below), I enjoy the story and particularly certain scenes so much that I&#8217;m still able to reread it regularly and enjoy it just as much each time I do. I really like Lucy, and overall the book is very funny and believable.<\/p>\n<p>SPOILERS <!--more-->Lucy is blatantly &#8220;weightist.&#8221; At one point she is furious when she thinks someone is mocking Meredia&#8217;s weight, yet Lucy repeatedly does this herself throughout the book.<\/p>\n<p>The whole dealing-with-her-dad&#8217;s-alcoholism section is fairly hefty and can be a bit of a drag to read. But it works.<\/p>\n<p>I love the scenes with Daniel at the restaurant, in his car, and at his apartment; and I love the Indian restaurant, and all the roommate stuff, and the work avoidance&#8230; it&#8217;s all great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love, love, love Marian Keyes&#8217;s Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married. Though it&#8217;s not perfect (see spoilers, below), I enjoy the story and particularly certain scenes so much that I&#8217;m still able to reread it regularly and enjoy it just as much each time I do. I really like Lucy, and overall the book is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,26,14],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-5-hearts-award","tag-irish-chick-lit","tag-marian-keyes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}