{"id":11595,"date":"2013-06-25T07:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T12:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=11595"},"modified":"2013-06-25T07:22:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T12:22:47","slug":"nightstand-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130625-11595.htm","title":{"rendered":"Nightstand (June 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back to slow reading, not much completed on my Nightstand this month&#8211;but I&#8217;m learning that we have seasons of reading and seasons of working, seasons of new stuff and seasons of old familiar. These seasons are good&#8211;and I&#8217;m still enjoying what books I am reading.<\/p>\n<p><b>This month, I read:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The Fan<\/em> by Peter Abrahams<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is the earliest of Peter Abrahams&#8217; that I&#8217;ve read so far&#8211;and I didn&#8217;t really like it. It took quite a while to get to the suspense part of the story, the main characters motivations were never really clear, and it had way too much sex in it. If I end up with another one like this from him, I may end up 50-paging it.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>While the Clock Ticked<\/em> by Franklin Dixon<\/strong><br \/>\nPicking up the Hardy Boys again&#8211;this time at a new library with different parts of the series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img title=\"What's on my Nightstand\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"What's on my Nightstand\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-IMG_20130625_071508.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Currently in progress<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The 5:30 Challenge: 5 ingredients, 30 minutes, dinner on the table<\/i> by Jeanne Besser<\/li>\n<li><em>Bondage of the Will<\/em> by Martin Luther<\/li>\n<li><em>Glimpses of Grace<\/em> by Gloria Furman<\/li>\n<li><em>The Thyroid Sourcebook for Women<\/em> by Sara Rosenthal<\/li>\n<li><em>Unbroken<\/em> by Laura Hildenbrand<br \/>\nEveryone who read and reviewed this in the past year has raved about it&#8211;so when a few gals from church started talking about starting a book club and wanted suggestions for books, I threw this title into the mix. So far, at about halfway through, I&#8217;m <i>loving<\/i> it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to drop by <a href=\"http:\/\/books.5minutesformom.com\/32426\/whats-on-your-nightstand-june-25\/\">5 Minutes 4 Books<\/a> to see what others are reading this month!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"What's on Your Nightstand?\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/buttons\/nightstand.jpg\" title=\"What's on Your Nightstand?\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back to slow reading, not much completed on my Nightstand this month&#8211;but I&#8217;m learning that we have seasons of reading and seasons of working, seasons of new stuff and seasons of old familiar. These seasons are good&#8211;and I&#8217;m still enjoying what books I am reading. This month, I read: The Fan by Peter Abrahams &#8230; <a title=\"Nightstand (June 2013)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130625-11595.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nightstand (June 2013)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11595"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11620,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions\/11620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}