{"id":34758,"date":"2019-04-30T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=34758"},"modified":"2019-04-29T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:38:01","slug":"online-reading-challenge-april-wrap-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-april-wrap-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge &#8211; April Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/favorite-books-of-2017\/stacks-of-books-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32192\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32192\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/stacks-of-books.jpg?resize=363%2C471&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"471\" \/><\/a>Hello Fellow Readers!<\/p>\n<p>How did your reading about reading go this month? I have just one word for how mine went &#8211; fail! Argh! I had every intention of reading a book this month, in fact I had three titles as possibilities. I also thought I would have lots of down time this month but in fact I did not. Everything came together (in a bad way) to keep me from getting much reading done.<\/p>\n<p>Has this ever happened to you, where you go through a period of not having time to read, or nothing catches your attention? While I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m in a full-blown reading slump (I&#8217;ve already read a book for next month!), I have struggled in the past with reading inertia. If this dread syndrome ever happens to you, here are some ideas to\u00a0 get yourself back on the reading train.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookish.com\/articles\/how-to-break-out-of-a-reading-slump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>How to Break Out of a Reading Slump<\/strong><\/em><\/a> from Bookish<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybookcave.com\/19-ways-to-beat-your-reading-slump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>19 Ways to Beat a Reading Slump<\/strong><\/em><\/a> from Book Cave<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/2018\/01\/04\/reading-slump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Bookish Things to Do While in a Reading Slump<\/strong><\/em><\/a> from Book Riot<\/p>\n<p>And for a bit of humor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theodysseyonline.com\/10-stages-reading-slump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>10 Stages of a Reading Slump<\/strong><\/em><\/a> from Odyssey<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s your turn &#8211; what did you read for April? Have you ever been in a reading slump and if so, how did you get yourself out of it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Fellow Readers! How did your reading about reading go this month? I have just one word for how mine went &#8211; fail! Argh! I had every intention of reading a book this month, in fact I had three titles as possibilities. I also thought I would have lots of<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-april-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":[10,3371],"tags":[3395],"class_list":["post-34758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-online-book-challenge","tag-online-reading-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-92C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758","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=34758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34769,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758\/revisions\/34769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}