{"id":5,"date":"2008-06-07T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=5"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:08","slug":"otherwise-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/otherwise-engaged","title":{"rendered":"Otherwise Engaged: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Otherwise<\/a>The first American chick lit I read was Otherwise Engaged: A Novel<\/a>, by Suzanne Finnamore. While the story progresses from engagement to wedding, it’s not really about that so much as it is about relationships and life changes. It’s a bit more serious than, say, Bridget Jones’s Diary<\/i>, but it’s also more real, and it’s also very, very funny. I loved this book, and I loved the narrator. Yes, she’s neurotic and a bit self-centered, but she’s so cool and fun. Every time I read it, I wish I lived in San Francisco so I could be friends with her. Some of the scenarios – like getting into a fight with her fianc\u00e9 and wordlessly dividing their home into territories (including a neutral zone) – were so familiar I felt like I might have written this book in a previous life. This is essential chick lit – read it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first American chick lit I read was Otherwise Engaged: A Novel, by Suzanne Finnamore. While the story progresses from engagement to wedding, it’s not really about that so much as it is about relationships and life changes. It’s a bit more serious than, say, Bridget Jones’s Diary, but it’s also more real, and it’s […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[29,27,28],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-5-hearts-award","tag-american-chick-lit","tag-suzanne-finnamore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}