{"id":33305,"date":"2018-09-28T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=33305"},"modified":"2018-09-25T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T22:53:33","slug":"online-reading-challenge-september-wrap-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-september-wrap-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge &#8211; September Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;cn=1257674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-33308\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33308\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/love-and-ruin.jpg?resize=263%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Hello Online Challenge Readers!<\/p>\n<p>How did your month of September go, reading-wise? Did you find something wonderful, or did this month fall short for you? Make sure to share!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid, after a string of 8 straight good-to-excellent reads, September fell short for me. I was all set to read <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;cn=1257674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Love and Ruin<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Paula McLain, but it never caught my interest enough to stick with it. Maybe it was the subject matter &#8211; the main characters were often abrasive and made many poor decisions. Maybe it was my mood or the weather, or the fact that I had other things going on and taking up my time. Who knows why a book and reader fail to connect? Often it&#8217;s just timing &#8211; the right book at the right moment. And what doesn&#8217;t work at one time, might be perfect later. Fortunately, I know where there are <em>hundreds<\/em> of other books, all free for checking out! There&#8217;s always another great read waiting!<\/p>\n<p>What about you &#8211; how did your reading go in September? And, have you ever picked up a book and found, no matter how badly you wanted to read it, it just wasn&#8217;t for you? What have been your epic book fails? Let us know your experiences in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Online Challenge Readers! How did your month of September go, reading-wise? Did you find something wonderful, or did this month fall short for you? Make sure to share! I&#8217;m afraid, after a string of 8 straight good-to-excellent reads, September fell short for me. I was all set to read<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-september-wrap-up-2\/\">[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":""},"categories":[10,3371],"tags":[2657,977,582,3395],"class_list":["post-33305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-online-book-challenge","tag-1930s","tag-book-club","tag-great-depression","tag-online-reading-challenge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8Fb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33305","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=33305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33309,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33305\/revisions\/33309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}