{"id":339,"date":"2009-03-04T10:40:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T18:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providentiallife.wordpress.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-03-04T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T18:40:51","slug":"finished-illumination-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/finished-illumination-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Illumination Night."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-340 alignright\" style=\"border:0 none;margin:5px 15px;\" title=\"illuminationnight\" src=\"http:\/\/providentiallife.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/illuminationnight.jpg\" alt=\"illuminationnight\" width=\"212\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/illuminationnight.jpg 303w, https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/illuminationnight-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/>OK, so this is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Illumination-Night-Alice-Hoffman\/dp\/0425183262\">Alice Hoffman<\/a> book, so I basically should love it.<\/p>\n<p>I finished it last night, pushing my early bedtime back an hour because I was just SO close. And it was good, but the end made me sad.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the whole book made me sad. I love Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, and I loved the characters, and I wanted none of them to be sad, just happy. That&#8217;s what I always want for the characters I love. But, it did teach me a little about love, happiness, knowing yourself, loving the beach, and knowing where you belong. I&#8217;m glad I read it, and it gives me a good feeling to know I&#8217;ve completed something.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it&#8217;s the only book I&#8217;ve completed this year, and it&#8217;s March 4th. Jeff is on a shoot this weekend, and I think my goal might be 2 novels just to catch myself up and focus. My goal is to read 50 books this year, so I really need to get on the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Next up? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Montana-Sky-Nora-Roberts\/dp\/0515120618\">Montana Sky<\/a> by Nora Roberts for our <strong>Book Club<\/strong>. We wanted to read a romance novel for February. I realize it&#8217;s March. But I dare you to find a book club full of a better looking bunch of ladies than mine, even if we don&#8217;t read on time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is an Alice Hoffman book, so I basically should love it. I finished it last night, pushing my early bedtime back an hour because I was just SO close. And it was good, but the end made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/finished-illumination-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[124,126,413],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-read-love","tag-book-club-91423","tag-books","tag-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}