{"id":6801,"date":"2010-05-13T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2010-05-11T09:59:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:59:44","slug":"we-read-it-so-you-dont-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/we-read-it-so-you-dont-have-to\/","title":{"rendered":"“We Read it So You Don’t Have To” *"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Are you on your way to a dinner party where you know people will be dropping the names of hot new authors? And you barely have time to skim the newspaper, let alone devour big, fat sagas the way you used to do?<\/p>\n

Well, look no further than www.earlyword.com<\/a><\/strong>. It’ll give you quick reviews of popular and notorious books, movies based on books, books featured on Oprah, Comedy Central, etc.\u00a0 It even forecasts “Major Titles on Sale in the Coming Week,” (no one can blame you for not reading what hasn’t even hit the shelves yet!)<\/p>\n

A favorite of librarians, Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust<\/strong><\/em> reviews are featured prominently.<\/p>\n

In the Book Group link, you’ll find information about authors available for book group discussions by phone.<\/p>\n

Can’t remember the book everyone is suddenly talking about? You can quickly check the New York Times Bestsller lists.<\/p>\n

*Motto of Newsweek’s<\/em><\/strong> book reviewer. “You love reading newsy nonfiction, but you just don\u2019t have the time. We get it, and we\u2019re here to help. Give us five minutes, and we\u2019ll give you the whole book\u2014the big ideas, the best bits, the buzziest details. And you\u2019ll get hours of your life back…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you on your way to a dinner party where you know people will be dropping the names of hot new authors? And you barely have time to skim the newspaper, let alone devour big, fat sagas the way you used to do? Well, look no further than www.earlyword.com. It’ll[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":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[1020,3252,174,1189],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-websites","tag-bestsellers","tag-books","tag-reading","tag-what-to-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1LH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6871,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}