{"id":347,"date":"2010-04-18T20:53:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2010-04-18T20:53:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:53:35","slug":"reading-update-april-18-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/18\/reading-update-april-18-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Update: April 18, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took some time to update my reading list on LibraryThing<\/a> and discovered that I’ve reached 25 books.\u00a0 One third of my goal!\u00a0 I finished The Age of Chivalry<\/a>, a National Geographic book from 1969.\u00a0 I’ve got a volume about the Renaissance<\/a> that I dug out of the linen closet.\u00a0 But first there are books to finish: the essays about the Civil War and Bound for Glory<\/a>.\u00a0 I have an early reviewer book, too, and it’s on my tablet PC as a pdf file.\u00a0 Books everywhere…analog and virtual! I’ve abandoned Jimmy Carter for now.<\/p>\n

I’ve been so busy reading analog books that I haven’t turned on my Kindle for awhile and when I tried today, the battery was dead.\u00a0 Out of sight, out of mind.\u00a0 The analog books are much more visible!\u00a0 And my goal was to work through the pile in the bedroom.<\/p>\n

I started a new audio book as I gardened and walked today.\u00a0 Blood in the Cotswold<\/a> is part of Rebecca Tope’s British mystery series.\u00a0\u00a0 I would highly recommend the Alan Bradley books in audio: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie<\/a> and The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag<\/a>.\u00a0 Great narrator, wonderful prose, written somewhat tongue in cheek.\u00a0 I looked forward to a couple long drives to I could listen to big chunks of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took some time to update my reading list on LibraryThing and discovered that I’ve reached 25 books.\u00a0 One third of my goal!\u00a0 I finished The Age of Chivalry, a National Geographic book from 1969.\u00a0 I’ve got a volume about the Renaissance that I dug out of the linen closet.\u00a0 \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-5B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}