{"id":7180,"date":"2011-06-18T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2011-06-18T14:10:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:10:59","slug":"a-readers-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110618-7180.htm","title":{"rendered":"A Reader&#8217;s Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, I once again broke my personal library rule. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of 100 items, I checked out 115.<\/p>\n<p>But really, can you blame me?<\/p>\n<p>When books call your name&#8230;and don&#8217;t cost money&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<p>And really, considering my personal appetite for books&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Take this week, for instance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/20110618-01.jpg\" alt=\"Last Week's Reading\" class=\"aligncenter\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nSince my library visit last Sunday (six days ago), I have read&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;9 children&#8217;s picture books<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>Do the Doors Open by Magic?<\/i> by Catherine Ripley<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>Health<\/i> magazine, April 2011 issue<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>Bones and the Dinosaur Mystery<\/i> by David Adler<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>Yo! I know: Brain Building Quizzes<\/i> by Times for Kids<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>I&#8217;ll Mature When I&#8217;m dead<\/i> by Dave Barry<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>A Wodehouse Bestiary<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>Return to Harmony<\/i> by Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>Firegirl<\/i> by Tony Abbott<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>The Secret of the Lost Tunnel<\/i> by Franklin Dixon<\/p>\n<p>I also listened to 7 compact discs ranging from Kanye West (yuck) to Harry Nillson (mostly enjoyable except for the one song that included the f-word&#8211;why?!?) to Favorite TV theme songs.<\/p>\n<p>And I started a few additional books&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>Christianity: A Follower&#8217;s Guide<\/i> edited by Pete Briscoe<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor<\/i> by Lionel Ady<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>Thrive<\/i> by Dan Buettner<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>K.I.S.S Guide to Photography<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I could really call this a typical reading week for me&#8211;but it&#8217;s definitely not <i>atypical<\/i>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Also, because I&#8217;m a nerd and way too interested in my own reading statistics, I&#8217;ve determined that with 25 of my 115 items already consumed and four in progress, I&#8217;m well on my way to reading every item I&#8217;ve checked out. (Over 1\/5 of the way done with five more weeks to go until everything has to go back.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, I once again broke my personal library rule. Instead of 100 items, I checked out 115. But really, can you blame me? When books call your name&#8230;and don&#8217;t cost money&#8230; Well, I couldn&#8217;t resist. And really, considering my personal appetite for books&#8230; Take this week, for instance. Since my library visit last Sunday &#8230; <a title=\"A Reader&#8217;s Week\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110618-7180.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Reader&#8217;s Week<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180"}],"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=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}