{"id":8650,"date":"2010-12-13T08:20:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T14:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8650"},"modified":"2010-12-13T08:20:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T14:20:21","slug":"ive-read-my-share-and-a-bostonians-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/13\/ive-read-my-share-and-a-bostonians-share\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Read My Share and A Bostonian&#8217;s Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m starting to wonder what I&#8217;ll have to do since I&#8217;m sitting on 97 books this year and am 450 pages into an 800 page compendium of Heinlein, Massachusetts librarians are issuing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/12\/12\/mass_library_issues_50_book_reading_challenge\/?p1=Local_Links\" target=\"_blank\">a challenge for 2011<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Could you read 50 books in a single year?<\/p>\n<p>The New Bedford Public Library is challenging adults to do just that in its 50 Book Challenge, which runs through Dec. 10, 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pikers.<\/p>\n<p>Off course, I&#8217;m not the standard citizen here.  I&#8217;m the literary equivalent of the crazy cat lady.  Come to think of it, according to those who market pet products, I&#8217;m the crazy cat lady equivalent of a crazy cat lady, too.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll finish this one local memoir and maybe this collection of sonnets, which will put me at 99, and if I don&#8217;t get good push on the Heinlein book, I might have to pick up a coffeetable book or short paperback to make quota. <\/p>\n<p>(Link seen <a href=\"http:\/\/tjic.com\/?p=18967\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m starting to wonder what I&#8217;ll have to do since I&#8217;m sitting on 97 books this year and am 450 pages into an 800 page compendium of Heinlein, Massachusetts librarians are issuing a challenge for 2011: Could you read 50 books in a single year? The New Bedford Public Library is challenging adults to [&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-8650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650","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=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}