{"id":9270,"date":"2019-07-09T01:39:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9270"},"modified":"2019-07-09T02:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T07:37:19","slug":"favorite-found-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9270","title":{"rendered":"favorite found families"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday<\/a> from That Artsy Reader Girl invites us to invent our own topic relating to book characters. I thought I’d share ten of my favorite found families of literature — the ones who are brought together by fortune or happenstance, rather than blood, \u00c3\u00a0 la Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings or Sherlock and Watson (in any of their iterations):<\/p>\n

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  1. A Man Called Ove<\/em> by Fredrik Backman: Shared location<\/li>\n
  2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society<\/em> by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows: Shared location\/interests<\/li>\n
  3. Night Circus<\/em> by Erin Morganstern: Coworkers<\/li>\n
  4. The Illuminae Files trilogy by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff: Shared nemesis<\/li>\n
  5. Akata Witch<\/em> by Nnedi Okorafor: Classmates\/Shared abilities<\/li>\n
  6. Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 <\/em>by Ngozi Ukaza: Teammates<\/li>\n
  7. Spinning Silver<\/em> by Naomi Novik: Shared nemesis<\/li>\n
  8. A Gentleman in Moscow<\/em> by Amor Towles: Shared location<\/li>\n
  9. The Graveyard Book<\/em> by Neil Gaiman: Shared location<\/li>\n
  10. Geekerella<\/em> by Ashley Poston: Coworkers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How about you? Have you enjoyed any books that center around found families?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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