{"id":4739,"date":"2014-10-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2014-10-25T11:51:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:51:46","slug":"somewhat-scary-completely-wonderful-books-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4739","title":{"rendered":"Somewhat scary &#038; completely wonderful: spooky season books pair #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;all know that I cannot read horror books; my imagination is just too good and needs no super-terrifying prompts.<\/p>\n<p>I can take on scary tales in measured doses and do love mysteries, of course..<\/p>\n<p>So as we count down the days till Hallowe&#8217;en, check out BooksYALove favorites to get you ghoul and ready for some frights! Today&#8217; pair, future based on past inequities and past predicting the future:<!--more Click for today's titles--><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Red-Rising.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4423\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=4423\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Red-Rising.jpg?fit=187%2C281&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"187,281\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Red-Rising.jpg?fit=187%2C281&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4423\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Red-Rising.jpg?resize=201%2C302\" alt=\"book cover of Red Rising by Pierce Brown published by Del Rey\" width=\"201\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twelve-Minutes-to-Midnight.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4205\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=4205\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twelve-Minutes-to-Midnight.jpg?fit=199%2C290&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"199,290\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twelve-Minutes-to-Midnight.jpg?fit=199%2C290&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4205\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Twelve-Minutes-to-Midnight.jpg?resize=201%2C293\" alt=\"book cover of Twelve Minutes to Midnight by Christopher Edge published by Albert Whitman\" width=\"201\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Red Rising, by Pierce Brown (book review) \u2013 class warfare on Mars, to the death!\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4352\">Red Rising<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 is like <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0 plus <em>Hunger Games<\/em>\u00a0 set on Mars in a future caste-driven universe &#8211; a scary, bloody race for survival.<\/p>\n<p>London mental patients uncontrollably transcribe dreadful visions of the future at <a title=\"Twelve Minutes to Midnight, by Christopher Edge (book review) \u2013 visions of future \u2013 lunacy or conspiracy?\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4061\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twelve Minutes to Midnight<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; teen writer of supernatural tales Penelope investigates in late 1899, accompanied by a proper chaperone, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Would you rather be fighting for your life in the wilderness or searching for answers in a madhouse?<\/p>\n<p>**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;all know that I cannot read horror books; my imagination is just too good and needs no super-terrifying prompts. I can take on scary tales in measured doses and do love mysteries, of course.. So as we count down the days till Hallowe&#8217;en, check out BooksYALove favorites to get you ghoul and ready for some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,50,30,51,98,62],"tags":[90,11,20,5,70,37,16,43,39,49,31,15,21,35,33,3,8,28,61],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-historical","category-legends","category-mystery","category-reflective","category-science-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}