{"id":38617,"date":"2020-12-01T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=38617"},"modified":"2020-11-30T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:11:43","slug":"online-reading-challenge-december-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-december-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge – December"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Here we are with the last Challenge of the year (what a year, right?) This month our inspiration film is the classic, The Maltese Falcon<\/strong><\/em><\/a> starring Humphrey Bogart. For me, the film is nearly incomprehensible – I still don’t understand the fuss over the statue – but it’s still a great film, with several famous character actors, an incredibly stylish black-and-white film noir feel and Bogart at his charismatic best. So what kind of books does this film inspire?<\/p>\n

Of course, you can read books by Dashiell Hammett who wrote the book<\/strong> <\/a>our film is based on as well as classics such as The Thin Man<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and The Red Harvest<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 One of his contemporaries, Raymond Chandler, wrote several outstanding detective novels including The Big Sleep<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0and Farewell My Lovely.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Others to consider include James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, L.A. Confidential<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), Ross MacDonald (the Lew Archer series) and James Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Double Indemnity<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and Mildred Pierce<\/strong><\/em><\/a>). Newer authors include Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), Robert B Parker (the Spencer series), Lawrence Block (the Matthew Scudder series) and Mickey Spillane (the Mike Hammer series).<\/p>\n

I am planning on reading The Thin Man<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Dashiell Hammett about married private detectives Nick and Nora Charles and their dog Asta. It’s supposed to have lots of fun. snappy dialogue and has inspired a radio show, a television series, movies and even a Broadway play.<\/p>\n

What about you – what will you be reading in December? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Challenge Readers! Here we are with the last Challenge of the year (what a year, right?) This month our inspiration film is the classic, The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart. For me, the film is nearly incomprehensible – I still don’t understand the fuss over the statue – but[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":[1326,3395,5564],"class_list":["post-38617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-online-book-challenge","tag-noir","tag-online-reading-challenge","tag-private-detectives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-a2R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617","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=38617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617\/revisions\/38621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}