{"id":647,"date":"2012-04-28T21:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=647"},"modified":"2012-04-28T21:30:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T02:30:41","slug":"finally-i-finished-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/28\/finally-i-finished-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, I Finished a Book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my post on April 6, I haven&#8217;t been able to really concentrate on a book. \u00a0I read<em> Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise<\/em>, which turned out to be Christian fiction, a genre I have not read before. \u00a0 It was fine&#8230;not so preachy but more about trusting God and being in community. Feisty, quirky characters, each with a secret.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I stalled out. \u00a0Some of it certainly has to do with the it being Spring&#8230;there is a TON of gardening to do. \u00a0I am tackling a huge flower garden space and trying to help my husband with the vegetable farming as well. \u00a0I did listen to <em>The Camel Club<\/em>, the first book in Baldacci&#8217;s series. \u00a0I also listened to <em>Messenger of Truth<\/em> on my recent trip to Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/365project.org\/witchyrichy\/365\/2012-04-19\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Balitmore Book Shopping on 365 Project\" src=\"http:\/\/media.365project.org\/1\/2852406_emowyz0134_m.jpg\" alt=\"Balitmore Book Shopping on 365 Project\" width=\"206\" height=\"275\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I visited The Book Escape, the book store on Federal Hill that <a href=\"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/14\/book-store-tourism\/\">I visited last year<\/a>. \u00a0This year, I snapped a picture. \u00a0And found some interesting books, too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Angle of Repose<\/em>, Wallace Stegner<\/li>\n<li><em>Lyra&#8217;s Oxford<\/em>, Philip Pullman<\/li>\n<li><em>Building a Bridge to the 18th Century<\/em>, Neil Postman<\/li>\n<li><em>The Remains of the Day<\/em>, Kazuo Ishiguro<\/li>\n<li><em>Innocent Traitor<\/em>, Alison Weir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>It&#8217;s a great place to browse with treasures on every shelf. \u00a0And it&#8217;s that experience&#8211;browsing a bookstore&#8211;that digital editions cannot replace. \u00a0Scanning the shelves, taking in titles and authors, reaching up for a volume, skimming the book jacket, flipping through the pages. \u00a0Thinking about authors and series and then seeking them out. \u00a0No search function here and that&#8217;s a good thing since the pursuit may provide an interesting diversion. \u00a0The goal of bookstore browsing is not always to find the exact book but instead to find a book. \u00a0I had no intention of buying any of these books; instead, I found them, intrigued by titles or author names. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got rural writing on my mind and have been dabbling in Ivan Doig and Wendell Berry. \u00a0So, Stegner seemed a natural choice. And a serious one, compared to my more recent reading.<\/div>\n<div>So, after nearly a month of just dabbling in books but not getting into anything, I picked up Baldacci&#8217;s <em>Stone Cold<\/em> last night and finished it about an hour ago. \u00a0My first full book in some time&#8230;and it didn&#8217;t last long enough to really answer the what next question? \u00a0It was a quick reading fix but still leaves me wondering where I want to head with my reading. \u00a0I have several of Ivan Doig&#8217;s books in both analog and digital format, ditto for Berry. \u00a0They would be a good fit with our current agricultural undertaking.<\/div>\n<div>Or I could take the easy road and finish off the Camel Club series&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my post on April 6, I haven&#8217;t been able to really concentrate on a book. \u00a0I read Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise, which turned out to be Christian fiction, a genre I have not read before. \u00a0 It was fine&#8230;not so preachy but more about trusting God and being \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/28\/finally-i-finished-a-book\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[50,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}