{"id":247,"date":"2011-06-08T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=247"},"modified":"2011-06-08T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:10:11","slug":"summer-reading-recommendations-staff-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/summer-reading-recommendations-staff-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading Recommendations: Staff Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here are some recreational reading titles recommended by our staff reviewers. As always, make sure you know what you&#8217;re getting into. Not every book is a good fit for every reader. Just a note- Wrath James White is not for the weak of stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten&#8217;s recommendations: <em>Allison Hewitt Is Trapped<\/em> by Madeleine Roux and <em>Red Moon Rising <\/em>by Peter Moore (YA), and the very funny<em> Bad Kitty<\/em> books by Nick Bruel (children&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<p>Michele&#8217;s recommendations: <em>The Snow Queen&#8217;s Shadow<\/em> (Princess Novels, #4) by Jim Hines and <em>Magic Slays<\/em> (Kate Daniels, #5) by Ilona Andrews<\/p>\n<p>Colleen&#8217;s recommendations: Blood &amp; Gristle by Michael Louis Calvillo, Bone Marrow Stew by Tim Curran, and Skulls by Tim Marquitz (YA)<\/p>\n<p>Brandi&#8217;s recommendations:\u00a0 <em>The Seance <\/em>by John Harwood and <em>The Crossroads<\/em> by Chris Grabenstein (children&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<p>Erik&#8217;s recommendations: <em>The Templar Chronicles <\/em>by Joseph Nassise, <em>Wolf Hunt<\/em> by Jeff Strand, and <em>Resurrection<\/em> by Tim Curran<\/p>\n<p>Sheila&#8217;s recommendations: <em>The Brain Eater&#8217;s Bible <\/em>by J.D. McGhoul and Pat Kilbane (this has an iPad app as well), and <em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies&#8211; Dreadfully Ever After<\/em> by Steve Hockensmith<\/p>\n<p>David&#8217;s recommendations: <em>Population Zero<\/em> by Wrath James White and Fathers and Sons (Blackguard, #1) by Edward R. Morris (David also mentioned his own book, <em>Hunting the Moon Tribe<\/em>, which came out in April, but I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s no self-interest there).<\/p>\n<p>As always, not every book is appropriate for every reader.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve reviewed some of these books here at MonsterLibrarian.com, but not all of them, so make sure you check to see that the book you are thinking of reading is really your cup of tea. Have a great summer reading, and check back later for more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here are some recreational reading titles recommended by our staff reviewers. As always, make sure you know what you&#8217;re getting into. Not every book is a good fit for every reader. Just a note- Wrath James White is not for the weak of stomach. Kirsten&#8217;s recommendations: Allison Hewitt Is Trapped by Madeleine Roux<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/summer-reading-recommendations-staff-picks\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[276,311,285,287,309,306,305,304,83,307,284,298,156,293,296,283,248,277,282,286,312,279,302,244,281,308,278,299,289,247,301,249,300,292,291,280,295,288,290,297,303,41],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-allison-hewitt-is-trapped","tag-bad-kitty","tag-blood-gristle","tag-bone-marrow-stew","tag-book-lists","tag-david-agranoff","tag-edward-r-morris","tag-fathers-and-sons","tag-horror-fiction","tag-hunting-the-moon-tribe","tag-ilona-andrews","tag-jeff-strand","tag-jim-hines","tag-john-harwood","tag-joseph-nassise","tag-kate-daniels","tag-leisure-reading","tag-madeleine-roux","tag-magic-slays","tag-michael-louis-calvillo","tag-nick-bruel","tag-peter-moore","tag-population-zero","tag-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies","tag-princess-novels","tag-reading-lists","tag-red-moon-rising","tag-resurrection","tag-skulls","tag-staff-recommendations","tag-steve-hockensmith","tag-summer-reading","tag-the-brain-eaters-bible","tag-the-crossroads","tag-the-seance","tag-the-snow-queens-shadow","tag-the-templar-chronicles","tag-tim-curran","tag-tim-marquitz","tag-wolf-hunt","tag-wrath-james-white","tag-ya-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}