{"id":10780,"date":"2011-03-16T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=10780"},"modified":"2011-03-08T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T19:49:12","slug":"still-summer-by-jacquelyn-mitchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/still-summer-by-jacquelyn-mitchard\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four \"\"<\/a>close friends, Tracy, Olivia, Holly and Janis\u00a0who met years earlier at St. Ursula’s High School, decide to reunite by taking a relaxing trip to the Caribbean in Jacquelyn Mitchard’s Still Summer<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At the last minute\u00a0Janis\u00a0cancels due to the health of her husband, so Tracy invites her nineteen year old daughter, Cammie,\u00a0in the hope to salvage their fragile relationship.\u00a0 After\u00a0boarding a private yacht, complete with\u00a0the two person crew of Lenny and Michel\u00a0to navigate the waters, they set sail on their journey upon the Opus.<\/p>\n

In the early days of their journey, Cammie develops a relationship with the young and handsome co-captain, Michel, much to the chagrin of her mother, Tracy.\u00a0 When Michel and Cammie set off for a secluded part of the beach, they are discovered and head back to Opus to suffer the consequences.\u00a0 When trying to dock with the boat a tragic accident ensues with both Lenny and Michel falling overboard and the women don’t know if they are dead or alive.\u00a0 Quickly the foursome realize they are alone on the boat – now without a working engine.<\/p>\n

Soon thereafter, they are discovered by a trio of modern day pirates – with deadly results.\u00a0 Still Summer<\/em><\/strong> captures\u00a0some of the\u00a0turmoil between these women held over from their youth\u00a0 as well as the\u00a0desperation of trying to survive on the open sea.\u00a0 I listened to the audiobook version of Still Summer<\/em><\/strong>, which made for a suspenseful and emotional journey of survival and what it means to live a fulfilling life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four close friends, Tracy, Olivia, Holly and Janis\u00a0who met years earlier at St. Ursula’s High School, decide to reunite by taking a relaxing trip to the Caribbean in Jacquelyn Mitchard’s Still Summer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At the last minute\u00a0Janis\u00a0cancels due to the health of her husband, so Tracy invites her nineteen year old daughter,[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,8],"tags":[1560,331,444,679],"class_list":["post-10780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-staff-picks","tag-contemporary-literature","tag-suspense","tag-thriller","tag-womens-friendships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2NS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10780"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10987,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780\/revisions\/10987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}