{"id":34569,"date":"2025-11-20T18:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34569"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:37:43","slug":"a-look-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/20\/a-look-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Springfield-Greene County Library <em>Bookends<\/em> magazine\/calendar is out, and it lists the categories in the 2026 Winter Reading Challenge:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/winterreadingchallenge2026preview.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Categories include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a Different Country<\/li>\n<li>In Two Time Periods<\/li>\n<li>Vacation<\/li>\n<li>Native American Author<\/li>\n<li>Nonhuman Character<\/li>\n<li>Translated<\/li>\n<li>Genre New To You<\/li>\n<li>Short Story or Poetry<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction \/ Nonfiction<\/li>\n<li>Based on a Real Person \/ Event<\/li>\n<li>About Family<\/li>\n<li>Money<\/li>\n<li>Part of a Series<\/li>\n<li>500+ Pages<\/li>\n<li>Inspiring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looks like a cinch, although <em>Genre New To You<\/em> might be challenging&#8211;what have I not read?  I hope I don&#8217;t have to turn to modern women&#8217;s monster erotica.  Also, <em>500+ Pages<\/em> might bog me down depending upon what I select.  But books are all so long in the 21st century that this won&#8217;t necessarily be that difficult.  Although I find modern thick thrillers to be boggy as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Springfield-Greene County Library Bookends magazine\/calendar is out, and it lists the categories in the 2026 Winter Reading Challenge: Categories include: In a Different Country In Two Time Periods Vacation Native American Author Nonhuman Character Translated Genre New To You Short Story or Poetry Science Fiction \/ Nonfiction Based on a Real Person \/ [&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-34569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569","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=34569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34570,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569\/revisions\/34570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}