{"id":32989,"date":"2018-07-16T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=32989"},"modified":"2018-07-14T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T20:00:31","slug":"online-reading-challenge-mid-month-check-in-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-mid-month-check-in-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge – Mid-Month Check-in"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Howdy Readers! How’s your Westward Expansion reading experience going this month?<\/p>\n

I am working away at reading Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage<\/strong><\/em><\/a> which recounts the journey of Lewis and Clark. It has been a bit of a slog so far – interesting but maybe too<\/em> detailed – but I haven’t gotten to the actual journey yet. Things should pick up then.<\/p>\n

If you’re still searching for a book to read be sure to stop by any of the Davenport Library locations and check our displays which have a variety of interesting titles. Or reach for a DVD – we have a wide range to choose from. You can go classic\/nostalgic and check out a television Western which used to be so popular – Rawhide<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Gunsmoke<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Little House on the Prairie<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Bonanza<\/strong><\/em><\/a> or The Virginian<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. We also have a huge collection of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to look beyond the stereotypes, there are some excellent documentaries that are well worth watching. Lewis and Clark: the Journey of the Corps of Discovery<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and The West<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, both produced by Ken Burns, are beautifully done.<\/p>\n

For a modern, often violent look at the Old West try There Will Be Blood<\/strong><\/em><\/a> or The Revenant<\/strong><\/em><\/a> or the remake of True Grit<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howdy Readers! How’s your Westward Expansion reading experience going this month? I am working away at reading Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage which recounts the journey of Lewis and Clark. It has been a bit of a slog so far – interesting but maybe too detailed – but I haven’t gotten[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":[12,3371],"tags":[3254,3395,773],"class_list":["post-32989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","category-online-book-challenge","tag-dvds","tag-online-reading-challenge","tag-westerns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8A5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989","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=32989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32989\/revisions\/32992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}