{"id":2823,"date":"2012-02-25T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2018-01-17T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:56:34","slug":"miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2823","title":{"rendered":"Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children<\/a><\/em> (2011) Ransom Riggs<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I liked this right up until I realized it was book one in what will become an ongoing series.<\/p>\n

I love that the story is based upon found pictures–and that we get to see the pictures.<\/p>\n

I just hate getting involved in ongoing series when there is little resolution at the end of a book.<\/p>\n

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011) Ransom Riggs I liked this right up until I realized it was book one in what will become an ongoing series. I love that the story is based upon found pictures–and that we get to see the pictures. I just hate getting involved in ongoing series when there […]<\/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":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":[2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-young-adult"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-Jx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":696,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/696","url_meta":{"origin":2823,"position":0},"title":"White Corridor","author":"Michelle","date":"October 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"White Corridor (2007) Christopher Fowler Once again the Peculiar Crimes Unit is in danger of being closed. 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