{"id":1653,"date":"2019-01-21T02:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T07:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2018-12-30T22:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:56:30","slug":"book-review-the-love-curse-of-the-rumbaughs-by-jack-gantos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs by Jack Gantos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/515NQ7EGQ9L._SX333_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/515NQ7EGQ9L._SX333_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/515NQ7EGQ9L._SX333_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/515NQ7EGQ9L._SX333_BO1204203200_-50x74.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/515NQ7EGQ9L._SX333_BO1204203200_.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April, 2006<br \/>\nISBN: 0374336903<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Available: New and Used<br \/>\nIvy Spirico, age seven, is fascinated by the Rumbaugh twins, an elderly pair who run the town pharmacy, believe in eugenics, and enjoy taxidermy. She stumbles onto the family secret: the Rumbaughs are cursed with a warped and obsessive love of their mother and have committed bizarre acts to preserve her memory. Ivy, infected with the curse of the Rumbaughs, must come to terms with it. Is she genetically predestined to fulfill the curse, or can she choose to reject it? Reading\u00a0<i>The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs\u00a0<\/i>is like watching a car crash: you know what will happen, see it in slow motion, and watch it all with appalled fascination. Jack Gantos, widely known for his entertaining children\u2019s books, has reinvented himself here and created an extraordinarily creepy, morbid, and disturbing atmosphere in this homage to the gothic novel. Contains: frank discussions of sex, references to rape and incest, grave-robbing, and corpse mutilation. Entry by Francesca the Librarian.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April, 2006 ISBN: 0374336903 Available: New and Used Ivy Spirico, age seven, is fascinated by the Rumbaugh twins, an elderly pair who run the town pharmacy, believe in eugenics, and enjoy taxidermy. She stumbles onto the family secret: the Rumbaughs are cursed with a warped and obsessive love of their mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-horror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-qF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}