{"id":32864,"date":"2018-06-15T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=32864"},"modified":"2018-06-11T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:59:30","slug":"online-reading-challenge-mid-month-check-in-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-mid-month-check-in-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge &#8211; Mid-Month Check In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?attachment_id=32896\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32896\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32896\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/child-reading.jpg?resize=450%2C571&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"571\" \/><\/a>Hello All!<\/p>\n<p>Are you enjoying the June Reading Challenge? Have you found something fun to read? Or are you still looking for the right title?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started reading my book (<a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;pos=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Wrinkle in Time<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Madeleine L&#8217;Engle). I&#8217;m still trying to keep all the &#8220;mrs&#8217;s&#8221; straight, but I&#8217;m quickly getting caught up in the story. What I&#8217;ve found interesting is how other people react when I ask if they&#8217;ve read this book. I heard a lot of enthusiastic yeses; everyone seemed to love it. Best response, though, was from a co-worker who told me that <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;pos=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Wrinkle in Time<\/strong><\/em><\/a> was the book made her a library patron. When the teacher at school that was reading it to her class wasn&#8217;t reading fast enough for Shelley, she asked her Mom to take her to the library so that she could check out a copy. Thus began a lifelong love affair with reading (and, I hope, libraries!)<\/p>\n<p>Another great story came from a Challenge reader that commented she is going to read a book written in 1898 that had been a childhood favorite of her mother. I love this idea! It shows how books are a bridge &#8211; to the past, to the future, to knowledge, to entertainment and that they can also be a connection to the people in our lives. Books (stories) are magic.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you&#8217;re reading and, maybe, <em>why<\/em> you chose what you did!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello All! Are you enjoying the June Reading Challenge? Have you found something fun to read? Or are you still looking for the right title? I&#8217;ve started reading my book (A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L&#8217;Engle). I&#8217;m still trying to keep all the &#8220;mrs&#8217;s&#8221; straight, but I&#8217;m quickly getting<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-mid-month-check-in-5\/\">[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":[977,1811,3395],"class_list":["post-32864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-online-book-challenge","tag-book-club","tag-childrens-books","tag-online-reading-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8y4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32864","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=32864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32897,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32864\/revisions\/32897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}