{"id":25665,"date":"2015-09-14T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=25665"},"modified":"2015-09-04T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:34:08","slug":"the-guest-cottage-by-nancy-thayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-guest-cottage-by-nancy-thayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guest Cottage by Nancy Thayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1121843\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25666\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Guest-Cottage.jpg?resize=197%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Guest Cottage\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Guest-Cottage.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Guest-Cottage.jpg?w=262&amp;ssl=1 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1121843\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Guest Cottage<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Nancy Thayer is a great companion to <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1126301\" target=\"_blank\">Enchanted August<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/enchanted-august\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post of July 15th<\/a>). Not only are both set in idyllic New England\u00a0islands, both novels\u00a0 are self-limiting in that the cottage rental is for the month of August. (Is this\u00a0a east coast\u00a0thing? It seems very exotic to this midwesterner).<\/p>\n<p>The knowledge that this a short-term co-habitation allows for a pleasantly predictable dramatic arc (meet-cute, attraction,\u00a0development of romance and friendship, sadness of the looming end of summer).<\/p>\n<p>The characters in both books are suffering from unsatisfactory or dysfunctional family situations, and are looking for healing, as well as escape, however brief. They find all this, as well as transformation and joy.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first Nancy Thayer book I&#8217;ve read, and I&#8217;m happy to find that she has many more in her backlist. She actually lives in Nantucket so her writing has the ring of authority.<\/p>\n<p>What is therapeutic is\u00a0the satisfaction\u00a0she obviously takes in the\u00a0quotidian tasks of cooking, grocery shopping,\u00a0 cleaning up, and so on. Life on the island also consists of going to the beach, sailing, visiting\u00a0quaint shops and getting ice cream. One could do a lot worse than spending time in these fictional worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guest Cottage by Nancy Thayer is a great companion to Enchanted August (see blog post of July 15th). Not only are both set in idyllic New England\u00a0islands, both novels\u00a0 are self-limiting in that the cottage rental is for the month of August. (Is this\u00a0a east coast\u00a0thing? It seems very<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-guest-cottage-by-nancy-thayer\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3143,408,226],"class_list":["post-25665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-nantucket","tag-romance","tag-summer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-6FX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25665","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25665"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25690,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25665\/revisions\/25690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}