{"id":406,"date":"2015-05-07T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:42:55","slug":"limerick-review-sisters-by-raina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"LIMERICK REVIEW: SISTERS by Raina Telgemeier"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WcyQrmLGqgk\/VUuwNhS6jjI\/AAAAAAAAF9Y\/ryVvWqMFwP4\/s1600\/Sisters2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Sisters2.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">click to embiggen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n<i>A surfeit of conflicts sisterical<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Makes this graphic novel hysterical &#8211; <\/i><br \/>\n<i>And a journey by car<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Makes it all worse by far<\/i><br \/>\n<i>A truce would be some sort of miracle!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<i><b>Other Noteworthy Info<\/b><\/i>: This incredibly fun graphic novel, published last year, is the companion to <i>Smile<\/i> and continues Raina&#8217;s autobiographical childhood\/tween adventures. Anyone who has siblings, or stepsiblings, or even aggravating cousins, will laugh and relate, and the author&#8217;s engaging, friendly, funny drawing style is sure to appeal to a wide reading audience. Honestly? It made me REALLY GLAD I did not grow up with sisters&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-wLJQD-yUpoo\/VUuwpyxXM_I\/AAAAAAAAF9g\/XpML7CQPX5E\/s1600\/Sisters1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Sisters1.jpg\" width=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nI received an ARC of this book courtesy of last year&#8217;s KidLitCon, after which it promptly got mislaid for several months. Oops! Hopefully the poetry makes up for it.<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/aff\/readersrant7?product=9780545540605\" target=\"_blank\"><i>SISTERS<\/i><\/a> by Raina Telgemeier at an online e-tailer, or at a real life, independent bookstore near you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click to embiggen A surfeit of conflicts sisterical Makes this graphic novel hysterical &#8211; And a journey by car Makes it all worse by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,32,44,55,21,5,39,58],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-graphic-novels","tag-humor","tag-nonfiction","tag-realistic-fiction","tag-reviews","tag-sibling-fiction","tag-sisters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8551,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/8551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}