{"id":33477,"date":"2018-11-01T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=33477"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:56:39","slug":"online-reading-challenge-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge – November"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It’s November and that means it’s time for reading – Alternate Histories!<\/p>\n

Alternate Histories are kind of like brain teasers for the reader by asking the unanswerable What If?<\/em> question. They fall mostly into two categories:<\/p>\n

General.<\/strong> What If<\/em> Lincoln had lived? Or JFK? What If<\/em> the Nazi’s had won World War II? What If<\/em> Rome had not fallen? How would the world be different now? Better? Worse? Some titles that fall into this category include 11\/22\/63<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Stephen King (about preventing the assisination of John F Kennedy), Fatherland<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Robert Harris (if the Nazi’s had won WWII), and multiple titles by Harry Turtledove. Or perhaps you believe history could use some spicing up – try Naomi Novik’s excellent His Majesty’s Dragon<\/strong><\/em><\/a> where the Napoleonic Wars are fought with the help of dragons (it’s quite good – really!).<\/p>\n

Personal.<\/strong> What If<\/em> you could go back and make different choices in your own life? How would your life be different? Some examples would include The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Andrew Greer about a woman who finds herself transported to other lives she might have\u00a0 lived: Replay<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Ken Grimwood is about a man who dies repeatedly, only to wake as his younger self again and again, each time with a chance to reclaim a lost love, make a fortune on the stock market or correct a wrong; or If I Could Turn Back Time<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Beth Harbison about a successful but unhappy 38-year-old who, after a knock on her head, wakes up just before her 18th birthday.<\/p>\n

A kind of “sub-category” would be the Time Travel<\/strong> novels (remember, there are no Library Police! Read what interests you! Plus, I just made up this genre and I get to make the rules!) These would include Outlander<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Diana Gabaldon and it’s many sequels and The Time Traveler’s Wife<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Audrey Niffenegger.<\/p>\n

Be sure to stop by any Davenport Library location and check out the Online Reading Challenge displays for lots more ideas and suggested titles.<\/p>\n

I am planning on reading The Jane Austen Project<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Kathleen Flynn about two researchers that go back in time to recover a suspected unpublished Jane Austen novel. Wouldn’t that be fabulous?<\/p>\n

Now, what about you? What you be reading this month?<\/p>\n

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