{"id":4109,"date":"2013-08-03T07:31:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T11:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2013-07-24T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T11:32:08","slug":"ive-been-looking-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/08\/03\/ive-been-looking-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve been looking for this"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Years ago, I undertook the ransacking of my memory to create an exhaustive list of books I’ve read.\u00a0 You might think that was crazy, one of my best friends did.\u00a0 And I probably did fail to remember some of the stories I had read during my near thirty years of life (at the time).\u00a0 But I used some tricks and did some searching and came up with something that was pretty complete.<\/p>\n

Eventually, all I was left with were those books for which I could remember the cover or a few plot points, but could never find the right thing.\u00a0 The Things I Did For Love<\/em> is just such a book – THE final book plot and cover details that haunted my memory and would not allow me to simply write off that I could not write it down in my Great Read It list.<\/p>\n

Thanks to CLIQUEY PIZZA 2: more 80’s teen book series & pop culture, <\/a>I now know what the title of this dang book is, and the author, and I can put it on my Read It list for good.\u00a0 In fact, once I read the Cliquey Pizza<\/a> coverage on The Things I Did For Love<\/em>, I automatically went out and re-purchased a copy that I intend to re-read just because it has been a massive thorn in my list for so long!\u00a0 …and because I’m not quite done reliving the cheesy teen romances that I used to love.<\/p>\n

Thank you Cliquey Pizza<\/a> for saving my list!\u00a0 Thank you from the bottom of my heart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Years ago, I undertook the ransacking of my memory to create an exhaustive list of books I’ve read.\u00a0 You might think that was crazy, one of my best friends did.\u00a0 And I probably did fail to remember some of the stories I had read during my near thirty years of life (at the time).\u00a0 But… Continue reading I’ve been looking for this<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,56],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-reading","tag-teen-romance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/junk-food-and-wildfires\/","url_meta":{"origin":4109,"position":0},"title":"Junk food and Wildfires","author":"leems","date":"November 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A little background:\u00a0 I went a little insane one summer and started compiling a list of all the books I had ever read.\u00a0 By memory... 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