{"id":11309,"date":"2012-04-23T19:39:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T00:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11309"},"modified":"2012-04-23T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T00:39:50","slug":"book-report-penny-candy-by-jean-kerr-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/book-report-penny-candy-by-jean-kerr-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Penny Candy<\/i> by Jean Kerr (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001BG4R0G\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B001BG4R0G\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/pennycandy.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001BG4R0G\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B001BG4R0G\" target=\"_blank\">This book<\/a> is Jean Kerr&#8217;s follow-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/19\/book-report-please-dont-eat-the-daisies-by-jean-kerr-1957\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Please Don&#8217;t Eat The Daisies<\/em><\/a>&#8211;thirteen years later.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a slightly less eclectic mix, with most of the essays dealing with managing a household.  By this time, her five children are spaced out in ages so that she&#8217;s had milk in sippy cups for years.  That resonated with me, although I only have two children, raising the second one seems a bit like a repeat at times.  <em>Haven&#8217;t we covered this already?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kerr makes allusions, again, to Kipling, which I can appreciate having read <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/book-report-kipling-a-selection-of-his-stories-and-poems-volume-ii-selected-by-john-beecroft-1956\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kipling recently<\/a>.  Remind me sometime to write a piece about the loss of allusion in modern writing, replaced with political sucker punches which serve a similar role for a different subset of the reading public.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.  I&#8217;m just sad that there are so few Jean Kerr titles available.  Looks like a couple more collections and a couple of plays.  Not that I see any of them in the seedy book fairs I hang out in.  I&#8217;ll have to go to Amazon to get them if I get that hankering.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B001BG4R0G&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is Jean Kerr&#8217;s follow-up to Please Don&#8217;t Eat The Daisies&#8211;thirteen years later. The book is a slightly less eclectic mix, with most of the essays dealing with managing a household. By this time, her five children are spaced out in ages so that she&#8217;s had milk in sippy cups for years. That resonated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11312,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions\/11312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}