{"id":30800,"date":"2023-03-01T06:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30800"},"modified":"2023-03-01T18:42:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:42:56","slug":"it-ends-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/01\/it-ends-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"It Ends: 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the Springfield-Greene County Library 2023 Winter Reading Challenge has come to an end. In the end, I only read books in 14 of the 15 categories. I did not read a banned book, as I don’t have many banned books easily at hand, and I’ve read most of the ones I own (I think).<\/p>\n

So here it is, the completed form:<\/p>\n

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The list includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Listen to a Book<\/b><\/td>\nHow I Write<\/a><\/i> by Janet Evanovich with Ina Yalof<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Set in Space<\/b><\/td>\nMerchanter’s Luck<\/a><\/i> by C.J. Cherryh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Instructional<\/b><\/td>\nA Beginner’s Guide to Glass Engraving<\/a><\/i> by Seymour Isenberg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Religious or Spiritual<\/b><\/td>\nBreathe! You Are Alive<\/a><\/i> by Thich Nhat Hanh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Female Detective<\/b><\/td>\nFinding Lizzy Smith<\/a><\/i> by Susan Keene<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cozy<\/b><\/td>\nThe Maine Mutiny<\/a><\/i> by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Author of Color<\/b><\/td>\nA Black Woman\u2019s Civil War Memoirs<\/a><\/i> by Susie King Taylor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kid’s Chapter Book<\/b><\/td>\nFor the Love of Benji<\/a><\/i> by I.F. Love<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Under 200 Pages<\/b><\/td>\nThe Book of Irish Limericks<\/a><\/i> by Myler Magrath<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Banned Book<\/b><\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Speculative Fiction<\/b><\/td>\nConquistador<\/a><\/i> by S.M. Stirling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nature\/Outdoors<\/b><\/td>\nWeird Hikes<\/a><\/i> by Art Bernstein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Page Turner<\/b><\/td>\nRacing the Light<\/a><\/i> by Robert Crais<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wartime Setting<\/b><\/td>\nI’m No Hero<\/a><\/i> by Charlie Plumb<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pictorial<\/b><\/td>\nFantin-Latour<\/a><\/i> by Michelle Verrier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

So I’ve read sixteen books this year, total, and I’m happy to get back to self-guided reading. I like the Winter Reading Challenge at the outset of the year, where part of the fun is picking out books from the Nogglestead stacks that fit the categories (I didn’t need a library book this year), but it does become a bit of a chore when you get to the last category or two.<\/p>\n

I turned in my form at the Library Center on Saturday, but in a stunning turn of events, they were out of mugs<\/em>. Not that I needed another, gentle reader, but it would have been a bit of a trophy. The librarian at the reference desk mentioned that they might order more and contact me when they’re available, but time will tell, and time is already nodding its head in the negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the Springfield-Greene County Library 2023 Winter Reading Challenge has come to an end. In the end, I only read books in 14 of the 15 categories. I did not read a banned book, as I don’t have many banned books easily at hand, and I’ve read most of the ones I own (I think). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30808,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30800\/revisions\/30808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}