{"id":244,"date":"2010-07-23T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2010-10-31T18:55:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T00:55:44","slug":"going-bovine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Going Bovine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/goingbovine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"goingbovine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/goingbovine-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just finished reading Going Bovine by Libba Bray. This was my first tween\/teen book for my self-issued 20 book reading challenge. It&#8217;s been quite a while since I&#8217;ve read YA, I&#8217;ve been absorbed in children&#8217;s books and my adult book club selections for the past few years. I found myself a little shocked by the graphic language and content. I have been reading for the past several years with young elementary students in mind, after all!<\/p>\n<p>I did enjoy this book, as crazy at it was. I read right before bed the other night and I know this book was the source of some wicked crazy dreams that I had. This book tells the story of 16 year old Cameron, a boy who becomes terminally ill with mad cow disease. His illness causes him to have hallucinations and he finds himself on a strange adventure while trying to save the world. This is a pretty long book that gets confusing on several occasions. I think this was a good choice to bring me back into the realm of YA as it has so much going on: profanity, sex, drugs\/drinking, science-fictionish characters, and death. I thought this was a very cleverly written book. I really appreciated the humor and the crazy connections between Cameron&#8217;s reality and hallucinations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Going Bovine by Libba Bray. This was my first tween\/teen book for my self-issued 20 book reading challenge. It&#8217;s been quite a while since I&#8217;ve read YA, I&#8217;ve been absorbed in children&#8217;s books and my adult book club selections for the past few years. I found myself a little shocked by<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=244\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}