{"id":2874,"date":"2024-09-01T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2024-08-31T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T18:51:48","slug":"book-dont-go-without-me-by-rosemary-valero-oconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/09\/01\/book-dont-go-without-me-by-rosemary-valero-oconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Don&#8217;t Go Without Me by Rosemary Valero-O&#8217;Connell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DontGoWithoutMeBG-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Book: Don't Go Without Me by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell\" class=\"wp-image-2875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DontGoWithoutMeBG-copy.jpg 537w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DontGoWithoutMeBG-copy-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Go Without Me <\/strong><br>by Rosemary Valero-O&#8217;Connell<br><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/short_box?lang=en&amp;mx=2\">published by Shortbox <\/a>(link to their X page, their website is broken)<br>2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an enjoyable and visually pleasing collection of three illustrated stories: of a couple becoming unintentionally separated during an inter-dimensional trip, a spacecraft that runs on human memories malfunctioning explosively, and people preparing for a giant to wake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valero-O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s illustrations are extremely charming &#8211; I love the shapes of their inter-dimensional animals, the softness of their characters&#8217; noses (some so similar to my bi-racial nose), and the detailed illustrations created with such nicely chosen limited color palettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Whatever you want to do, do it now.<br>Wherever you want to be, be there tonight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Concise, well-told stories; skilled and pleasing illustrations; and somehow also lessons about valuing life and what you have.  This is a great collection!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.silversprocket.net\/products\/dont-go-without-me-by-roesmary-valero-oconnell?srsltid=AfmBOopvCacJh9-1ckTuR1LB40Tp778IheaKlfueTcvZ5RifZj27Dlrw\">This selection was highly praised by the staff at Silver Sprocket<\/a>, but there are so many good choices to be made there, that I can&#8217;t take too much credit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Go Without Me by Rosemary Valero-O&#8217;Connellpublished by Shortbox (link to their X page, their website is broken)2019 This is an enjoyable and visually pleasing collection of three illustrated stories: of a couple becoming unintentionally separated during an inter-dimensional trip, a spacecraft that runs on human memories malfunctioning explosively, and people preparing for a giant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/09\/01\/book-dont-go-without-me-by-rosemary-valero-oconnell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: Don&#8217;t Go Without Me by Rosemary Valero-O&#8217;Connell&#8221;<\/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":[9],"tags":[266,8],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-graphical-fiction","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}