{"id":4899,"date":"2019-06-23T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2019-06-23T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T22:46:55","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-643featuring-the-fisherman-the-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4899","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #643:<br>Featuring <em>The Fisherman &#038; the Whale<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2019\/06\/fwhale.JPG\"><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nI\u2019m sending you to the <em>Horn Book<\/em> today. I reviewed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jessicalanan.com\/\">Jessica Lanan&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>The Fisherman &#038; the Whale<\/em> (Simon &#038; Schuster, May 2019). If you&#8217;re so inclined to read it, the review is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbook.com\/2019\/06\/choosing-books\/reviews\/review-of-the-fisherman-the-whale\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> at the <em>Horn Book&#8217;s<\/em> site. It&#8217;s a splendid wordless tale, this one.  <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome.<\/p>\n<p><center><font size=3><strong>* * * Jules&#8217; Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font><br \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>1)<\/strong><\/font> Halfway marks. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>2)<\/strong><\/font> I&#8217;m not at ALA Annual this weekend but have enjoyed reading about it on social media \u2014 especially the Coretta Scott King Book Awards celebration photos. It&#8217;s 50 years old this year. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/2019\/06\/03\/50-years-of-csk-book-awards\/\">Here&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> a great article about it. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>3)<\/strong><\/font> Knowing that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2019\/01\/14\/boom-ala-midwinter-exclusives-include-buffy-ben-10-magicians-and-rl-stine\/\">this tote bag<\/a><\/strong> exists in the world, even if I never got one. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>4)<\/strong><\/font> This made me laugh very hard, and you will get this if you are watching <em>Big Little Lies<\/em>, season two:<br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Remember when Meryl Streep invented necklace acting? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BigLittleLies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BigLittleLies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wSRBWgPAdQ\">pic.twitter.com\/wSRBWgPAdQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jamie Jirak (@JamieCinematics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamieCinematics\/status\/1140438020069449728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<font size=4><strong>5)<\/strong><\/font> <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fleabag-Season-1\/dp\/B01J4SST1K\">Fleabag<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>6)<\/strong><\/font> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gen.medium.com\/lets-celebrate-a-man-who-actually-made-things-right-5b33b2e03e71\">This<\/a><\/strong> is a good piece about speaking up. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>7)<\/strong><\/font> I watched the last episode of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/shows\/broad-city\">Broad City<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. There were tears. ABBI + ILANA FOREVER. <\/p>\n<p>What are <strong><font size=4>YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I\u2019m sending you to the Horn Book today. I reviewed Jessica Lanan&#8217;s The Fisherman &#038; the Whale (Simon &#038; Schuster, May 2019). If you&#8217;re so inclined to read it, the review is here at the Horn Book&#8217;s site. It&#8217;s a splendid wordless tale, this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}