{"id":9269,"date":"2018-04-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2018-04-24T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:55:15","slug":"v-vikki-wakefield-writing-small-town-in-between-days-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9269","title":{"rendered":"V = Vikki Wakefield writing small-town In Between Days (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9518\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=9518\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/in-between-days.jpg?fit=1400%2C2100&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1400,2100\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"in-between-days\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/in-between-days.jpg?fit=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/in-between-days.jpg?resize=201%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"US book cover of In-Between Days by Vikki Wakefield, published by Simon Schuster BFYR | recommended on BooksYALove.com\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/in-between-days.jpg?resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/in-between-days.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/in-between-days.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 402w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/in-between-days.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>Waiting for that car to return from the hanging forest,<br \/>\nwaiting to finish school and leave this tiny town,<br \/>\nwaiting for the right guy to notice her (really notice)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jacklin wishes she could go to Europe like her sister did (why&#8217;d she come home?) or actually get paid for her job at the town&#8217;s failing grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>Is Ma just waiting for Jacklin and Trudy to leave town for good?<\/p>\n<p>Is renovating the old drive-in movie show with Jeremiah and Roly worthwhile?<\/p>\n<p>What about that guy camping in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/the-facts\/suicide-prevention\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suicide grove<\/a> of the national forest nearby?<\/p>\n<p>Look for this summer tale of interpersonal drama and some questionable choices in hardcover or paperback at your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/libraries\" target=\"_blank\">local library<\/a> or favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" target=\"_blank\">independent bookstore<\/a> (more opening every week in USA!)<\/p>\n<p>What are you waiting for today?<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>: In-Between Days \/ Vikki Wakefield. Simon Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2016 (hardcover), 2017 (paperback). [<a href=\"http:\/\/vikkiwakefield.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">author site<\/a>]  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/In-between-Days\/Vikki-Wakefield\/9781442486577\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">publisher site<\/a>]  Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for that car to return from the hanging forest, waiting to finish school and leave this tiny town, waiting for the right guy to notice her (really notice)&#8230; Jacklin wishes she could go to Europe like her sister did (why&#8217;d she come home?) or actually get paid for her job at the town&#8217;s failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9518,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10,90,104,22,4,11,20,5,37,16,18,44,43,184,180,31,15,9,21,57,73,35,3],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-australia","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-mothers","tag-movies","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/in-between-days.jpg?fit=1400%2C2100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","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=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9524,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions\/9524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}