{"id":3123,"date":"2019-05-01T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T08:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2019-05-01T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T08:30:50","slug":"three-reasons-love-from-a-to-z-is-on-my-tbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":";three reasons Love From A To Z is on my TBR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3168\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/three-reasons-love-from-a-to-z-is-on-my-tbr.png\" alt=\"three reasons love from a to z is on my tbr\" width=\"1010\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was the release day of <em>Love From A To Z<\/em> by S.K. Ali, and I could not be more excited. I&#8217;m already counting down the days* to it being on the shelves in Malaysia so I can pick up both this and <em>Saints And Misfits<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Book buying ban? Who&#8217;s she?<\/p>\n<h5>*Related post: <a href=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=3136\">;the a to z of journals<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard nothing but good things about both S.K. Ali&#8217;s books, but I thought I&#8217;d make a short list of why I am super excited for it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3170 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/a-to-z-bookmark.jpg\" alt=\"a to z bookmark\" width=\"520\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Characters who journal are, in my opinion, a little rare these days. Especially <em>male<\/em> characters who journal? I think it&#8217;s going to give a very different approach to the story, and it lets the reader really understand the characters. This was surprisingly a huge draw for me. I think it&#8217;s a combination of the way the synopsis was phrased &#8211; with the <em>marvels<\/em> and <em>oddities<\/em> approach &#8211; and the way the characters looked on the cover.<\/li>\n<li>The author described the novel as a &#8216;think-com&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SajidahWrites\/status\/1080654051912675328\">in a tweet<\/a> rather than a &#8216;rom-com&#8217;, and it has intrigued me so much. I know the romance is a part of the story, but it&#8217;s going to be thought-provoking as well. The way the characters are described, and the way a few reviews I&#8217;ve read have talked about the book tell me it is going to be something that will really stir the emotions.<\/li>\n<li>I will admit though, the main thing that had me really, really excited about the novel was the fact that it is the first time I am seeing a main character with multiple sclerosis (MS). I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever talked about it on my blog, but in December 2015, I was diagnosed with MS. My family was all shaken up about it, because my aunt has the same, and she deteriorated over the past few years, so it was quite a hit to us. Dealing with it over the past few years has had me feeling all over the place, so I am really excited about connecting with a character that is going through something similar. There are many strands of MS, but the emotions of it all are going to be there, and I cannot wait for the roller-coaster of feels I know I&#8217;m about to be hit with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there you have it, my short list of reasons I am so excited for <em>Love From A To Z<\/em>. The more I hear about it, the more reviews I read, the more excited I get!<\/p>\n<p>Is it on your TBR too?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3053\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer.png\" alt=\"footer\" width=\"1010\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer.png 1010w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer-768x304.png 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer-600x238.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3051\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post.jpg\" alt=\"pin this post\" width=\"1010\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post-300x15.jpg 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post-768x38.jpg 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post-600x30.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3171 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/three-reasons-love-from-a-to-z-is-on-my-tbr-pin-200x300.png\" alt=\"three reasons love from a to z is on my tbr pin\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the release day of Love From A To Z by S.K. Ali, and I could not be more excited. I&#8217;m already counting down the days* to it being on the shelves in Malaysia so I can pick up both this and Saints And Misfits. Book buying ban? Who&#8217;s she? *Related post: ;the a to z of journals I&#8217;ve heard nothing but good things about both S.K. Ali&#8217;s books, but I thought I&#8217;d make a short list of why I am super excited for it. Characters who journal are, in my opinion, a little rare these days. Especially male characters who journal? I think it&#8217;s going to give a very different approach to the story, and it lets the reader really understand the characters. This was surprisingly a huge draw for me. I think it&#8217;s a combination of the way the synopsis was phrased &#8211; with the marvels and oddities approach &#8211; and the way the characters looked on the cover. The author described the novel as a &#8216;think-com&#8217; in a tweet rather than a &#8216;rom-com&#8217;, and it has intrigued me so much. I know the romance is a part of the story, but it&#8217;s going to be thought-provoking as well. The way the characters are described, and the way a few reviews I&#8217;ve read have talked about the book tell me it is going to be something that will really stir the emotions. I will admit though, the main thing that had me really, really excited about the novel was the fact that it is the first time I am seeing a main character with multiple sclerosis (MS). I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever talked about it on my blog, but in December 2015, I was diagnosed with MS. My family was all shaken up about it, because my aunt has the same, and she deteriorated over the past few years, so it was quite a hit to us. Dealing with it over the past few years has had me feeling all over the place, so I am really excited about connecting with a character that is going through something similar. There are many strands of MS, but the emotions of it all are going to be there, and I cannot wait for the roller-coaster of feels I know I&#8217;m about to be hit with. And there you have it, my short list of reasons I am so excited for Love From A To Z. The more I hear about it, the more reviews I read, the more excited I get! Is it on your TBR too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[639,59],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-post","tag-three-reasons-love-from-a-to-z-is-on-my-tbr","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}