{"id":20091,"date":"2022-11-20T20:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T01:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=20091"},"modified":"2022-11-20T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T02:33:09","slug":"the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Sometimes books don&#8217;t find us until the right time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry<\/strong>, released in 2022<\/p>\n<p>A. J. Fikry owns a bookstore. He had a copy of a rare book that he was planning to auction off and retire on the proceeds. But someone stole it. Or maybe he did something to it in a drunken stupor, which is the condition he&#8217;s in every evening since his wife died. After a scare, Fikry&#8217;s doctor tells him to start exercising &#8212; and he does.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry\/\">the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about books, and love. I like how the side characters have their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Kunal Nayyar, Christina Hendricks, Lucy Hale, and David Arquette. Directed by Hans Canosa (<strong>Conversations with Other Women<\/strong>). The playful music is by Jeff Eden Fair and Starr Parodi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Sometimes books don&#8217;t find us until the right time.&#8221; The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, released in 2022 A. J. Fikry owns a bookstore. He had a copy of a rare book that he was planning to auction off and retire on the proceeds. But someone stole it. Or maybe he did something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5,53],"class_list":["post-20091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20091"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20102,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091\/revisions\/20102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}