{"id":1405,"date":"2010-02-23T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2010-02-23T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:15:11","slug":"nightstand-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100223-1405.htm","title":{"rendered":"Nightstand (February 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time again for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/2224\/whats-on-your-nightstand-february\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Minutes 4 Books&#8217;<\/a> monthly meme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/2224\/whats-on-your-nightstand-february\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"What's on Your Nightstand?\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/nightstand.jpg\" title=\"What's on Your Nightstand?\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100126-1171.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Last month&#8217;s nightstand:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"On my nightstand\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/20100126-1.jpg\" title=\"On my nightstand\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done quite a bit less reading than usual this month, partly because the time between meme posts is shorter, but mostly because I&#8217;ve been so busy with Love Month (and keeping up with school).<\/p>\n<p><b>What I actually read this month was:<\/b><br \/>\n(Links lead to my reviews of the book, never to a site selling you something.)<\/p>\n<p><u>Fiction<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Beyond the Gathering Storm<\/i> by Janette Oke<\/li>\n<li><i>How Do I Love Thee?<\/i> by Nancy Moser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Nonfiction<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"books\/tierney_j-bestcasescenario.htm\"><i>The Best Case Scenario Handbook<\/i><\/a> by John Tierney<\/li>\n<li><i>The Bombshell Manual of Style<\/i> by Laren Stover<\/li>\n<li><i>Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations<\/i> by Jonathon Green<\/li>\n<li><i>Christmas Letters from Hell<\/i> by Michael Lent<\/li>\n<li><i>Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway<\/i> by Dave Barry<\/li>\n<li><i>The Two-Headed Boy and other medical marvels<<\/i> by Jan Bondeson<br \/>\nInteresting information, reads like a academic journal&#8211;not EXACTLY my favorite kind of reading (although I do quite a bit of it, I prefer it to be in my field!) I stopped this title after 80 pages.  But with this one officially done, I&#8217;ve finished the Dewey Decimal category 610 at my library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Juvenile<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 titles by <a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100130-1407.htm\">Allan Ahlberg<\/a>\n<li><i>The Anne of Green Gables Storybook<\/i><br \/>\nWhy does anyone write adaptations?  And why does anyone read them?  This is basically all the worst attributes of the Anne movies without any of the redeeming attributes of the Anne books.  Ugh!<\/li>\n<li><i>Inkspell<\/i> by Cornelia Funke <\/li>\n<li><i>Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/i> by Alexandra Wallner<br \/>\nMeh. This children&#8217;s biography of LMM wasn&#8217;t anything spectacular, IMHO.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Mystery of the Broken Blade<\/i> by Franklin Dixon<\/li>\n<li><i>Princess of the Midnight Ball<\/i> by Jessica Day George<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>On my nightstand for next month:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"On my nightstand\" src=\"images\/20100223-1.jpg\" title=\"On my nightstand\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><u>Fiction<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>John 3:16<\/i> by Nancy Moser<\/li>\n<li><i>When Tomorrow Comes<\/i> by Janette Oke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Nonfiction<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Don&#8217;t Waste Your Life*<\/i> by John Piper<\/li>\n<li><i>Dug Down Deep*<\/i> by Joshua Harris<\/li>\n<li><i>Forgotten God<\/i> by Francis Chan<\/li>\n<li><i>When God Writes Your Love Story*<\/i> by Eric and Leslie Ludy <\/li>\n<li><i>The World&#8217;s Last Night and other essays<\/i> by C.S. Lewis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Juvenile<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Bus Station Mystery<\/i> by Gertrude Chandler Warner<\/li>\n<li><i>Celtic Fairy Tales<\/i> by Philip and Brent<\/li>\n<li><i>The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault<\/i> by Perrault and Holmes<\/li>\n<li><i>Dairy Queen<\/i> by Catherine Gilbert Murdock<\/li>\n<li><i>The Flickering Torch Mystery<\/i> by Franklin Dixon<\/li>\n<li><i>The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales*<\/i> by Philip and Mistry <\/li>\n<li>Children&#8217;s picture books AJ-AL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*The asterisk marks books I&#8217;m currently in the middle of.<\/p>\n<p>Drop by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/2224\/whats-on-your-nightstand-february\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Minutes 4 Books<\/a> to see what others are reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time again for 5 Minutes 4 Books&#8217; monthly meme. Last month&#8217;s nightstand: I&#8217;ve done quite a bit less reading than usual this month, partly because the time between meme posts is shorter, but mostly because I&#8217;ve been so busy with Love Month (and keeping up with school). What I actually read this month was: &#8230; <a title=\"Nightstand (February 2010)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100223-1405.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nightstand (February 2010)<\/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\/1405"}],"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=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}