{"id":29512,"date":"2026-03-28T13:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29512"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:57:58","slug":"29512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/03\/28\/29512\/","title":{"rendered":"Give me a book rec for someone who hates reading but wants to enjoy it. Please [smiley face]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW032826.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW032826.jpeg\" alt=\"Give me a book rec for someone who hates reading but wants to enjoy it. Please [smiley face]\" class=\"wp-image-29511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW032826.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW032826-300x294.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Give me a book rec for someone who hates reading but wants to enjoy it. Please [smiley face]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Try out a book that doesn&#8217;t have large walls of text to overcome! Novels-in-verse like Jason Reynolds&#8217; <em>Long Way Down <\/em>or Mar\u00eda Dolores \u00c1guila&#8217;s <em>A Sea of Lemon Trees (<\/em>which was just on the Long List for the National Book Award) are phenomenal options. Graphic novels are great too &#8212; like K. O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s <em>Tea Dragon Society <\/em>or Harmony Becker&#8217;s <em>Himawari House. <\/em>Plus, you can find all of these and more over with my friends at the ERC!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try out a book that doesn&#8217;t have large walls of text to overcome! Novels-in-verse like Jason Reynolds&#8217; Long Way Down or Mar\u00eda Dolores \u00c1guila&#8217;s A Sea of Lemon Trees (which was just on the Long List for the National Book Award) are phenomenal options. Graphic novels are great too &#8212; like K. O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s Tea Dragon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/03\/28\/29512\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Give me a book rec for someone who hates reading but wants to enjoy it. Please [smiley face]&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29528,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29512\/revisions\/29528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}