{"id":31865,"date":"2024-02-08T07:36:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31865"},"modified":"2024-02-07T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T17:53:35","slug":"the-2024-winter-reading-challenge-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/08\/the-2024-winter-reading-challenge-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2024 Winter Reading Challenge: Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, gentle reader, in a little over a month, I read 14 books and listened to 1 to complete the 2024 Winter Reading Challenge:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/2024winterreadingchallengecomplete.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/11\/book-report-death-in-dittmer-by-james-r-wilder-2023\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Death in Dittmer<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/12\/book-report-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-by-erich-maria-remarque-1928-2002\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">All Quiet on the Western Front<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/13\/book-report-blood-relatives-by-ed-mcbain-1975-2\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Blood Relatives<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/14\/book-report-treasure-in-hells-canyon-by-bill-gulick-1979\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Treasure in Hell&#8217;s Canyon<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/17\/book-report-karate-do-nyumon-by-gichin-funakoshi-1943-1994\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Karate-d\u014d Ny\u016bmon<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/19\/book-report-generation-b-music-melodies-by-ernie-bedell-2022\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Generation B Music &#038; Melodies<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/21\/book-report-sharpes-trafalgar-by-bernard-cornwell-2002\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharpe&#8217;s Trafalgar<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/22\/book-report-tales-from-the-missouri-tigers-by-alan-goforth-2003\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Tales from the Missouri Tigers<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/23\/book-report-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time-by-mark-heddon-2003\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/24\/book-report-mine-the-harvest-by-edna-st-vincent-millay-1954-2\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Mine the Harvest<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/26\/musing-on-shakespeare-much-ado-about-nothing\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Much Ado About Nothing<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/01\/book-report-lolita-by-vladimir-nabokov-1955\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Lolita<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/03\/book-report-midnight-cowboy-by-james-leo-herlihy-1965\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Midnight Cowboy<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/06\/on-unqualified-by-anna-faris-2017\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Unqualified<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/07\/book-report-blood-debts-by-shayne-silvers-2015\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Blood Debts<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gentle reader, that counts only as 13 books in my annual total&#8211;<em>Unqualified<\/em> is an audiobook and does not count, and neither does <em>Much Ado About Nothing<\/em><\/a>.  But considering that I finished one book on January 2 before starting the Winter Reading Challenge, I read one book not counted in the Winter Reading Challenge before completing it, and have finished another book or two since, and I am in good shape for my annual reading already.  And it&#8217;s leap year, so I have an extra day to run up my annual total.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly seems like that was a long month, but I attribute that both to the dietary restrictions (doing the Whole 30 Diet with my beautiful wife) and the late great employment uncertainty.  But I read a lot, so that&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, gentle reader, in a little over a month, I read 14 books and listened to 1 to complete the 2024 Winter Reading Challenge: I read: Death in Dittmer All Quiet on the Western Front Blood Relatives Treasure in Hell&#8217;s Canyon Karate-d\u014d Ny\u016bmon Generation B Music &#038; Melodies Sharpe&#8217;s Trafalgar Tales from the Missouri Tigers [&hellip;]<\/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-31865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31865","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=31865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31867,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31865\/revisions\/31867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}