{"id":23293,"date":"2015-03-17T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=23293"},"modified":"2015-03-11T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T21:50:31","slug":"this-is-my-favorite-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/this-is-my-favorite-book\/","title":{"rendered":"This is My FAVORITE Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=334486\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23299\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/I-Remember-Nothing.jpg?resize=270%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"I Remember Nothing\" width=\"270\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/I-Remember-Nothing.jpg?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/I-Remember-Nothing.jpg?resize=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>A key to good readers advisory is to be able to remember titles and authors.\u00a0 One of my favorite audiobooks is <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=334486\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>I Remember Nothing<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Nora Ephron. The problem is that I can <em>never<\/em>\u00a0remember this title. Not only do I keep checking it out, thinking I haven&#8217;t listened to it before,\u00a0 I also fail to remember the title when I&#8217;m telling staff and patrons what a great Book-on-CD it is.<\/p>\n<p>And it really is. Ephron read the book herself and she has a marvelous voice and impeccable timing.\u00a0 Particularly interesting, I thought, were the stories about her early career in newspaper and magazine journalism. She isn&#8217;t shy about dishing about the legendary writers and publishers she worked with, whose names I can&#8217;t recall (except for Katie and Phil Graham of the <em>Washington Post)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She also has some handy tricks for social situations in which names (or whether you, in fact, really know a person) escape you.<\/p>\n<p>Recommendation:\u00a0 check the box marked &#8220;Reading History&#8221; in your library account, and you&#8217;ll always have a record of what you&#8217;ve checked out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key to good readers advisory is to be able to remember titles and authors.\u00a0 One of my favorite audiobooks is I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron. The problem is that I can never\u00a0remember this title. Not only do I keep checking it out, thinking I haven&#8217;t listened to it<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/this-is-my-favorite-book\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,10],"tags":[165,298,2873],"class_list":["post-23293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","tag-humor","tag-memory","tag-menopause"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-63H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions\/23378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}