{"id":33691,"date":"2018-11-30T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=33691"},"modified":"2018-11-21T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T21:04:10","slug":"online-reading-challenge-november-wrap-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-november-wrap-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge &#8211; November Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;cn=1219267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-33695\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33695\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/jane-austen-project.jpg?resize=264%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>My Friends, it has happened. I have experienced an Epic Failure this month &#8211; I did not complete a book for our Alternate Histories challenge.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the fault of the book (<a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;cn=1219267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Jane Austen Project<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Kathleen Flynn), it just wasn&#8217;t the right time for me to connect with it. Does that ever happen to you? Where the book just doesn&#8217;t work for you, even though you think it should? I have had this happen more than once; I often (although not always) return to the book later and everything clicks. So I&#8217;ll put this book on my TBR (to-be-read) list and try again another day.<\/p>\n<p>However! All is not lost &#8211; I did finish watching the first season of <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;cn=1110953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Outlander<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (from the Diana Gabaldon books) and enjoyed it so much that I&#8217;m going to continue to watch more seasons (two more are available on DVD; season four is currently airing). At the end of season one, Claire and Jamie have decided that they&#8217;re going to try to change history and therefore save the Scots. This is, of course, the great temptation of time travel &#8211; changing what went wrong. But what are the ripple effects of one change, even a small one? What is the cost and would it prevent the tragedy, or is it doomed to happen no matter what? Intriguing questions, if impossible to answer.<\/p>\n<p>What about you &#8211; what did you read that was intriguing and interesting? Or was this an epic fail for you too? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Friends, it has happened. I have experienced an Epic Failure this month &#8211; I did not complete a book for our Alternate Histories challenge. It&#8217;s not the fault of the book (The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn), it just wasn&#8217;t the right time for me to connect with<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-november-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":"","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":[10,12,3371],"tags":[2013,977,4767,3395,426],"class_list":["post-33691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dvds","category-online-book-challenge","tag-alternate-history","tag-book-club","tag-epic-fail","tag-online-reading-challenge","tag-time-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8Lp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691","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=33691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691\/revisions\/33696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}