{"id":31254,"date":"2017-07-03T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=31254"},"modified":"2017-07-03T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:59:16","slug":"now-departing-for-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/now-departing-for-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Departing for: Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

This month we’re heading north, to Alaska. Just the name conjures up images of a rugged, wild frontier. A land of extremes – in landscape, in weather, in individualism, in wildlife, this beautiful place is full of adventures great and small and has the stories to prove it.<\/p>\n

You’ll find a wide range of titles to choose from this month. There are quite a few mysteries set in Alaska, including the Kate Shugak series by Dana Stabanow and the Maxie and Stretch series by Sue Henry. There are also a lot of romances, like, a lot. Maybe all that cold weather is good for snuggling? Check out Fire and Ice<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>by Julie Garwood, Northern Lights<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Nora Roberts or Darkness<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Karen Robards.<\/p>\n

For fiction, consider Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>about a (fictional) Jewish state that has been established in Sitka, Alaska after World War II. Protocol Zero<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by James Abel (also known as Clive Cussler), is a thriller that fans of Michael Crichton will appreciate. To the Bright Edge of the World<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Eowyn Ivey is historical fiction set in 1885, told through the letters of a young couple. Or try Jodi Picoult’s The Tenth Circle<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a story of revenge set the in the Alaskan bush.<\/p>\n

If you prefer non-fiction, you’ve got some great books to look at including Into the Wild<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jon Krakauer about a privileged young man who headed into the wilds of Alaska in an attempt to live off the land, or 81 Days Below Zero<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Brian Murphy about a young Army pilot that survived brutal conditions after crash landing in the Arctic in 1943.<\/p>\n

I am going to read Snow Child<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Eowyn Ivey about a childless couple homesteading in Alaska who, after building a figure out of snow, find a little girl in their woods. It sounds like an intriguing mix of history and magical realism. I’ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n

Now, what about you – what are you reading this month?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Fellow Online Challenge Readers! This month we’re heading north, to Alaska. Just the name conjures up images of a rugged, wild frontier. A land of extremes – in landscape, in weather, in individualism, in wildlife, this beautiful place is full of adventures great and small and has the stories[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":[3371],"tags":[108,3395],"class_list":["post-31254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-book-challenge","tag-alaska","tag-online-reading-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-886","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31254","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=31254"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31265,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31254\/revisions\/31265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}