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It was a wonderful Sunday to spend outdoors, provided you’re the star of a murder mystery set in turn of the century London.\u00a0 Idle away the afternoons of the April-May monsoon season with a couple picks from DPL.<\/p>\nIt was a wonderful Sunday to spend outdoors, provided you’re the star of a murder mystery set in turn of the century London.\u00a0 Idle away the afternoons of the April-May monsoon season with a couple picks from DPL.<\/p>\n
If you have the attention span of a gnat and enjoy nonfiction like myself, it’s a good time to skim through Best American Essays 2008<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Here an editor has reviewed and picked the best of this genre.\u00a0 You know, the kinds of thought pieces the Quad-City sophisticates and literati chortle over at all the premiere area intellectual salons.<\/p>\n We buy an edition every year, as well as Best American Magazine Writing<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0 Best Nonrequired Reading<\/a>,<\/strong> and Best American Short Stories<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Think how many of those little advertiser cards would get strewn on your floor had you actually parsed through each magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a wonderful Sunday to spend outdoors, provided you’re the star of a murder mystery set in turn of the century London.\u00a0 Idle away the afternoons of the April-May monsoon season with a couple picks from DPL. If you have the attention span of a gnat and enjoy nonfiction[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[575,573,576,574],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-elitest","tag-essays","tag-short-attention-span","tag-short-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-O2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}