{"id":13,"date":"2016-06-03T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/?p=13"},"modified":"2016-06-01T18:09:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T00:09:37","slug":"what-im-reading-anglehood-by-amy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/what-im-reading-anglehood-by-amy\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Reading – Anglehood by A.J. Cattapan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angelhood by A.J. Cattapan<\/a>
\nVinspire Publishing
\nCategory: Young Adult
\nGenre: Fantasy<\/p>\n

Hi, Aadi\u00a0here.<\/p>\n

This week I’m reading Angelhood by\u00a0A.J. Cattapan.<\/p>\n

It’s such a touching story about a subject that we deal with a lot in Nacerma. Suicide is common here; even expected sometimes. I wish everyone in Nacerma could read this book and discover their true worth as human beings. Unfortunately, they can’t, but you can. Check it out.<\/p>\n

Seventeen-year-old theater geek Nanette believes her life is headed toward stardom on Broadway. But when her dream theater college rejects her and her best friend dies in a terrible accident, Nanette decides the world would be better off without her. Unfortunately, the afterlife offers something less than a heavenly situation. Trapped between alternating periods of utter darkness and light, Nanette is stuck following a high school freshman around. Soon, she learns she\u2019s a guardian angel, and the only way she can earn her wings is to keep her young charge, Vera, from committing the same sin she did\u2014taking her own life. Unfortunately, Nanette is missing more than just her wings. She has no tangible body or voice, either. Frustrated by her inability to reach out to Vera and haunted by memories of her old life, Nanette wants to give up, but then she sees what happens when another Guardian at the high school turns his back on his charge. The shock is enough to supercharge Nanette\u2019s determination. She\u2019s going to find peace in the afterlife\u2026as soon as she can convince Vera that living is what life is all about.<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/p>\n

A boy I\u2019ve never noticed before is sitting in the back corner. He looks much too old for this freshman English class. By the stubble on his chin, I\u2019d guess he\u2019s at least a senior, but he could pass for college-aged. His hair is thick and wavy, and he wears a sweater that looks like it\u2019s straight out of the 1950s\u2014v-neck with a button-down shirt underneath. Apparently, he likes retro looks. A quirky smile plays on his lips, and I\u2019m thinking he could break a lot of hearts despite his throwback style. Yes, I definitely would\u2019ve noticed him if he had been in the room before. Did he just move to the district? Or was he transferred here from another class?
\nThe bell rings, and Ms. Kitchin starts class. The students break into groups based on the colored strip they pulled, and Ms. Kitchin directs them to look at the poem on page 345. As the students move their desks, I watch the new boy, but he sits there, watching Ms. Kitchin. She ignores him. I wonder if she\u2019s even noticed there\u2019s a new kid in her class. He has no books. He doesn\u2019t even have a colored strip of paper.
\nI glide around the room to avoid the students as they move their desks. I know from my experience in the church that they can move right through me, but old habits die hard. Besides, it\u2019s too weird to know people can penetrate your space. When I shift to a new spot out of everyone\u2019s way, I realize the new boy is now looking at something behind me, and the smile that was playing on his lips before has broken into a full-on grin. I turn to see what has caused this amusement for him, but there\u2019s nothing behind me but an empty whiteboard. I turn back. He\u2019s still smiling, and his eyes are fixed on me. I figure there must be some mistake, so I glide a few feet to the right. His eyes follow me. I glide back to the left. His grin broadens even more.
\n\u201cDo you think I can\u2019t see you?\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Check it out. It’s available at Amazon.com<\/a>\u00a0in paperback and Kindle additions.<\/p>\n

Have you already read this book? Tell us what you thought of it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angelhood by A.J. Cattapan Vinspire Publishing Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Hi, Aadi\u00a0here. This week I’m reading Angelhood by\u00a0A.J. Cattapan. It’s such a touching story about a subject that we deal with a lot in Nacerma. Suicide is common here; even expected sometimes. I wish everyone in Nacerma could read this book and discover their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What I'm Reading - Anglehood by A.J. Cattapan #fridayreads #amreading","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,23,26,22,21],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-im-reading","tag-a-j-cattapan","tag-angel","tag-angelhood","tag-book","tag-ya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/angelhood-e1463168158450.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7xtYd-d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}