{"id":21732,"date":"2023-03-21T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21732"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:24:57","slug":"joy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21732","title":{"rendered":"Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Joy<\/em> (2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Poe_CS.php\">C.S. Poe<\/a> (A Lancaster Story)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAre there, like\u2026 street signs or\u2014\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not from around here,\u201d Nancy said to a guy at the counter who started laughing. \u201cNo, honey, just drive. The roads around here will bring you right through into the next town.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I put down the bin of dishes I\u2019d been holding and followed George around the counter to his work station. He gave me the world\u2019s worst tour, which basically consisted of: knives, fire, food in the freezer and pantry, thanks, kid!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t fail.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I snorted. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t,\u201d Silas continued quietly. \u201cPart of life is accepting there\u2019s always someone better than you at something. It\u2019s no reason to run away.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Publisher: Emporium Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy (2017) C.S. Poe (A Lancaster Story) \u201cAre there, like\u2026 street signs or\u2014\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s not from around here,\u201d Nancy said to a guy at the counter who started laughing. \u201cNo, honey, just drive. The roads around here will bring you right through into the next town.\u201d I put down the bin of dishes I\u2019d been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[191,668,292,196,148,41,26],"tags":[180,544],"class_list":["post-21732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-comfort-read","category-ebook","category-novella","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","tag-c-s-poe","tag-mm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5Ew","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17696,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/17696","url_meta":{"origin":21732,"position":0},"title":"Kneading You, Joy, The Color of You","author":"Michelle","date":"August 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Kneading You, Joy, The Color of You (2019, 2017) C.S. 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