{"id":47310,"date":"2023-05-01T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=47310"},"modified":"2023-05-01T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:07:55","slug":"online-reading-challenge-may-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-may-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge &#8211; May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ORC-Logo-2023-Poster-Header-002.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46345\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ORC-Logo-2023-Poster-Header-002.jpg?resize=1050%2C494&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"494\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ORC-Logo-2023-Poster-Header-002.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ORC-Logo-2023-Poster-Header-002.jpg?resize=632%2C297&amp;ssl=1 632w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ORC-Logo-2023-Poster-Header-002.jpg?resize=1020%2C480&amp;ssl=1 1020w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ORC-Logo-2023-Poster-Header-002.jpg?resize=768%2C361&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ORC-Logo-2023-Poster-Header-002.jpg?resize=1536%2C723&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a>Welcome Readers!<\/p>\n<p>This month the Online Reading Challenge travels to Ireland, nicknamed the Emerald Isle for its wide expanses of lush, green fields! Our Main title is <a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1383015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Good Eggs<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Rebecca Hardiman. Here\u2019s a quick summary from the author.<\/p>\n<p><em>A hilarious and heartfelt debut novel following three generations of a boisterous family whose simmering tensions boil over when a home aide enters the picture, becoming the \u00a0calamitous force that will either undo or remake them\u2014perfect for fans of Where\u2019d YouGo, Bernadette and Evvie Drake Starts Over.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When Kevin Gogarty\u2019s irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother, Millie, is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, recently unemployed, is already at his wits\u2019 end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work, leaving him solo with his rebellious teenage daughter, Aideen, whose troubles escalate when she befriends the campus rebel at her new boarding school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Into the Gogarty fray steps Sylvia, Millie\u2019s upbeat home aide, who appears at first to be their saving grace\u2014until she catapults the Gogarty clan into their greatest crisis yet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With charm, humor, and pathos to spare, Good Eggs is a delightful study in self-determination; the notion that it\u2019s never too late to start living; and the unique redemption that family, despite its maddening flaws, can offer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1383015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regular Print<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1432891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Single Book Club Titles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1399484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Large Print<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Readers! This month the Online Reading Challenge travels to Ireland, nicknamed the Emerald Isle for its wide expanses of lush, green fields! Our Main title is Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman. Here\u2019s a quick summary from the author. A hilarious and heartfelt debut novel following three generations of a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-may-6\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[10,3371,5,1],"tags":[6842,490,3395,6843],"class_list":["post-47310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-online-book-challenge","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","tag-good-eggs","tag-ireland","tag-online-reading-challenge","tag-rebecca-hardiman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-cj4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47310","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47627,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47310\/revisions\/47627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}