{"id":9650,"date":"2017-10-20T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9650"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:26:48","slug":"the-club-that-rewrites-personal-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/the-club-that-rewrites-personal-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Club that Rewrites Personal Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/10\/DirtyBookClub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9651\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/10\/DirtyBookClub.jpg\" alt=\"DirtyBookClub\" width=\"216\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>M.J. Stark has the picture-perfect life in New York City, but behind this life is a sense of debilitating loneliness. When her boss backstabs her and her boyfriend offers her a new life in California, she takes it. \u00a0Once there, she is left to herself with the ocean and her elderly neighbor.\u00a0 When her neighbor moves to Paris, she leaves M.J. an invitation to a secret club: one that only reads erotic books.\u00a0 M.J. grows curious and accepts meeting the three other hand-selected club members: Addie, who is sex obsessed and avoids responsibility; Britt, an overloaded mom whose husband leaves her wanting someone new; and Jules, a hopeless romantic whose fairy-tale life is falling apart. As they bond over naughty bestsellers, they learn friendship might just be what they need to rewrite their own stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.J. Stark has the picture-perfect life in New York City, but behind this life is a sense of debilitating loneliness. When her boss backstabs her and her boyfriend offers her a new life in California, she takes it. \u00a0Once there, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/the-club-that-rewrites-personal-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions\/9652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}