{"id":4373,"date":"2015-06-29T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2015-05-28T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T01:29:11","slug":"mayday-monday-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/29\/mayday-monday-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayday Monday (10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mayday-monday1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2823\" src=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mayday-monday1.jpg\" alt=\"mayday-monday\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mayday-monday1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mayday-monday1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1431016937l\/23341894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"475\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23341894-every-last-word\">Goodreads <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Every-Last-Tamara-Ireland-Stone\/dp\/1484705270\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1432862678&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=every+last+word\">Amazon<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span id=\"freeText12495280184672772095\"><em>If you could read my mind, you wouldn&#8217;t be smiling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can&#8217;t turn off.<\/p>\n<p>Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn&#8217;t help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she&#8217;d be <em>truly<\/em> crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam&#8217;s weekly visits to her psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline introduces Sam to Poet&#8217;s Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more &#8220;normal&#8221; than she ever has as part of the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.<\/span><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Every Last Word came out a few weeks ago (June 16) but deserves a highlight. For starters, I love the cover. Secondly, you don&#8217;t often see YA books that talk about mental health. This is sure to be a fantastic read and the reviews on Goodreads confirms it for me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you could read my mind, you wouldn&#8217;t be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can&#8217;t turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn&#8217;t help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ya-scavenger-hunt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}