{"id":11031,"date":"2018-08-26T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11031"},"modified":"2024-06-07T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:26:22","slug":"six-impossible-things-dnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11031","title":{"rendered":"Six Impossible Things: DNF"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six Impossible Things<\/a><\/em> (2017) Elizabeth Boyle<\/p>\n

I get a LOT of sale books for the kindle, so in self-preservation I’m learning to give up on books I’m not enjoying.<\/p>\n

This was one of those books I should have loved, since it’s a mystery AND romance.<\/p>\n

\u201cGirls cannot join the Foreign Office.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, Roselie, girls are never spies.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cGrow up to be a diplomat? I fear, child, that is impossible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both characters are spies! There is danger and adventure!<\/p>\n

But I realized I didn’t care at all what happened to either of the characters, so I moved on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six Impossible Things (2017) Elizabeth Boyle I get a LOT of sale books for the kindle, so in self-preservation I’m learning to give up on books I’m not enjoying. This was one of those books I should have loved, since it’s a mystery AND romance. \u201cGirls cannot join the Foreign Office.\u201d \u201cNo, Roselie, girls are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,15,33,26],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-11031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british","category-disliked-or-abandoned","category-historical","category-romance","tag-dnf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2RV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10859,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/10859","url_meta":{"origin":11031,"position":0},"title":"DNF: Lost to a Spy","author":"Michelle","date":"May 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Lost to a Spy (2018) Sharon Cullen Set in Scotland in 1567 I picked this up when I saw it on sale because I thought the premise was interesting. 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