{"id":29352,"date":"2016-09-15T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=29352"},"modified":"2016-09-14T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:01:19","slug":"online-book-challenge-or-changing-horses-in-the-middle-of-the-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-book-challenge-or-changing-horses-in-the-middle-of-the-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Book Challenge or Changing Horses in the Middle of the Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"online<\/a>Hello Fellow Readers!<\/p>\n

Here’s your mid-month check up for this month’s Online Reading Challenge! How’s it going – have you found something to read this month that gets you excited?<\/p>\n

I had every intention of reading The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Katarina Bivald, but it just didn’t grab me. I wasn’t liking any of the characters and the portrayal of Iowa was not sitting well with me. Maybe I should have stuck with it a little longer; maybe it would have grown on me. But, you know what – life’s too short to read books you don’t like, no matter how highly recommended they come. (And lots of people like this book – check out our own blogger Rachel’s review<\/strong><\/a> – so don’t take my word for it!)<\/p>\n

So, I’m changing horses in the middle of the stream and reading The Thirteenth Tale<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Diane Setterfield instead. This is another title that has been highly recommended to me, about a writer who is hired to help a mysterious author write their biography. Lots of intrigue and secrets and research. I’m hoping this one grabs – and keeps! – my attention.<\/p>\n

If you’re still looking for that great Book About Books, I’d steer you towards The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Gabrielle Zevin, a quick read that is by turns sweet and sharp and often very funny, about a bookseller on a remote island that unexpectedly finds love.<\/p>\n

Let us know what you’re reading – everyone likes a good recommendation (whether we end up reading the book or not!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Fellow Readers! Here’s your mid-month check up for this month’s Online Reading Challenge! How’s it going – have you found something to read this month that gets you excited? I had every intention of reading The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald, but it just didn’t grab[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[10,3371],"tags":[3834,3395],"class_list":["post-29352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-online-book-challenge","tag-books-about-books","tag-online-reading-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7Dq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352\/revisions\/29354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}