{"id":4905,"date":"2009-11-09T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2009-11-02T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T18:57:31","slug":"all-iowa-reads-chooses-book-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/all-iowa-reads-chooses-book-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"All Iowa Reads Chooses Book for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2083495\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4906\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Driftless.jpg?resize=175%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Driftless\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>The 2010 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowacenterforthebook.org\/archive\/2009\/10\/air09book\" target=\"_blank\">All Iowa Reads<\/a><\/strong> book was announced at the annual Iowa Library Association conference at the end of October. Praised as a &#8220;quiet masterpiece,&#8221; <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2083495\" target=\"_blank\">Driftless<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is the newest novel by David Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes has an interesting back story, so to speak. He was a rising young writer at the University of Iowa&#8217;s Writers&#8217; Workshop, and had several books published in the 1970&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0 motorcycle crash in 1977, which partially paralyzed Rhodes, \u00a0ended his publishing career till <em>Driftless<\/em> came out this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Driftless<strong> <\/strong><\/em>shares a rhythm with the farming community it documents, and its reflective pace is well-suited to characters who are far more comfortable with hard work than with words,&#8221; according to the Christian Science Monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Davenport Public Library newsletter for announcements of events and discussions concerning <em>Driftless <\/em>throughout 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 All Iowa Reads book was announced at the annual Iowa Library Association conference at the end of October. Praised as a &#8220;quiet masterpiece,&#8221; Driftless is the newest novel by David Rhodes. Rhodes has an interesting back story, so to speak. He was a rising young writer at the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/all-iowa-reads-chooses-book-for-2010\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[259,895,402,902,901],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book-clubs","tag-driftless","tag-fiction","tag-midwest","tag-rural"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1h7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4940,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}