{"id":40061,"date":"2021-04-02T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=40061"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:17:22","slug":"online-reading-challenge-april-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-april-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge – April"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

New month, new author for our Online Reading Challenge! This month we’re reading books by and similar to Jojo Moyes.<\/p>\n

Jojo Moyes writes about women, friendship and community. Many of her novels are classified as romance, but her newer titles are catalogued as fiction. Her break-out novel was Me Before You<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, followed by After You<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and Still Me<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. In addition she’s written favorites such as The Girl You Left Behind<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and The Giver of Stars.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

If you’ve read everything by Moyes, or would like to try similar authors, take a look at these titles:<\/p>\n

What Alice Forgot<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Liane Moriarty<\/p>\n

Landline<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Ranbow Rowell<\/p>\n

One Day<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by David Nicholls<\/p>\n

The Summer I Found You<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jolene Perry<\/p>\n

The Rosie Project<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Graeme Simsion<\/p>\n

You Me Everything<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Catherine Issac<\/p>\n

Red at the Bone<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jacqueline Woodson<\/p>\n

Welcome to Pine Away Motel and Cabins<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Katarina Bivald<\/p>\n

The Oysterville Sewing Circle<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>by Susan Wiggs<\/p>\n

Very Valentine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Adriana Trigiani<\/p>\n

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Balli Kaur Jaswal<\/p>\n

Lots of great choices, right? I’m planning to read The Giver of Stars<\/strong><\/em><\/a> which picked up a lot of interest when Reese Witherspoon chose it for her book club. It’s also garnered some controversy and mixed reviews since it was released a few months after another book on the same topic, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Kim Richardson was published (which I have read and it is excellent) The topic is fascinating – the horseback librarians of rural Appalachia during the Great Depression – and I’m looking forward to seeing how this compares to Book Woman<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

What about you – what will you be reading this month?<\/p>\n

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Hello Challenge Readers! New month, new author for our Online Reading Challenge! This month we’re reading books by and similar to Jojo Moyes. Jojo Moyes writes about women, friendship and community. Many of her novels are classified as romance, but her newer titles are catalogued as fiction. Her break-out novel[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":[470,3395,408],"class_list":["post-40061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-online-book-challenge","tag-friendship","tag-online-reading-challenge","tag-romance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-aq9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40061","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=40061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40114,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40061\/revisions\/40114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}