{"id":34,"date":"2007-09-14T21:05:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T01:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/review-of-rise-and-shine-by-anna-quindlen\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T01:13:13","slug":"review-of-rise-and-shine-by-anna-quindlen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Review of Rise and Shine, by Anna Quindlen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"book-details\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image33\" height=\"96\" alt=\"rise_and_shine.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/rise_and_shine.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Rise and Shine<\/div>\n<div id=\"book-author\">by Anna Quindlen<\/div>\n<p>Reviewed September 14, 2007.<br \/>\nRandom House, New York, 2006. 269 pages.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I like Anna Quindlen\u2019s writing. She creates depth, windows into people\u2019s souls.<\/p>\n<p>This book is the story of Bridget Fitzmaurice, a social worker in Manhattan, and her older sister Meghan, one of the most recognized people on TV, the host of <em>Rise and Shine,<\/em> a network\u2019s morning show.<\/p>\n<p>When Meghan lets something slip on the air that she shouldn\u2019t have, it looks like her career is over. When Bridget learns about the other pressures in Meghan\u2019s life behind that, she wonders if she really knew her sister.<\/p>\n<p>Will any of their lives ever be the same again? Well, no. We all grow and change. This novel looks at a window of time when the lives in one family change dramatically. Perhaps partly I liked it because Bridget is almost exactly the same age as me\u2014and it\u2019s a time of change for me, too.<\/p>\n<p>If someone told me the plot of this novel, I\u2019m not sure I would have thought I\u2019d like it. But in Anna Quindlen\u2019s hands, it\u2019s a treasure. You enjoy getting to know these people.<\/p>\n<p>This review is on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/rise_and_shine.html\">http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/rise_and_shine.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen Reviewed September 14, 2007. Random House, New York, 2006. 269 pages. I like Anna Quindlen\u2019s writing. She creates depth, windows into people\u2019s souls. This book is the story of Bridget Fitzmaurice, a social worker in Manhattan, and her older sister Meghan, one of the most recognized people on TV, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}