{"id":1897,"date":"2009-01-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:18:51","slug":"support-your-local-library-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/library_challenge-21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288394977346438466\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/library_challenge-21-300x300.jpg\" style=\"display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I am really into these Blogging Reading Challenges. So far, I&#8217;ve entered more challenges than what I&#8217;ve read books in 2009. Let me see, so far, four challenges and, well, &#8230; one boook. Hey, quit smirking.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I use the Tulsa City County Library a lot so I wanted a challenge for public libraries and I found one on the <a href=\"http:\/\/kbr44.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/2009-support-your-local-library.html\">Oklahoma Book Lady <\/a>blog. It is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com\/\">J. Kaye&#8217;s Book Blog <\/a>and you can read all the rules and enter the challenge by clicking on the graphic above.<\/div>\n<p>There are three levels of participation: 12, 25, or 50 books. They all have to be checked out from a library and they all have to be begun and finished in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going for the 12 book level. I picked up my first book on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my 12 books.<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Roads to Quoz&#8221; by William Least Heat-Moon &#8211; 1\/20\/2009<br \/>2. &#8220;Scarpetta<b>&#8221; <\/b>by Patricia Cornwell &#8211; 2\/20\/2009<br \/>3. &#8220;Runner&#8221; by Thomas Perry, due January 2009<br \/>4. &#8220;Murder in the Latin Quarter&#8221; by Cara Black, <b>finished 5\/2\/2009<\/b>.<br \/>5.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1812\">The Associate&#8221; by John Grisham <\/a>, finished in April 2009.<br \/>6. &#8220;The Monster in the Box&#8221; by Ruth Rendell, finished November 2009.<br \/>7. &#8220;The Year of the Flood&#8221; by Margaret Atwood, finished November 2009.<br \/>8. &#8220;The Associate&#8221; by John Grisham<br \/>9. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power&#8221; by Jeff Sharlet, 2009<br \/><b> <\/b><br \/>10. &#8220;The Lost Symbol&#8221; by Dan Brown 2009<br \/>11. &#8220;War Dances&#8221; by Sherman Alexie 2009<br \/>12. &#8220;The Scarecrow&#8221; by Michael Connelly 2009<br \/>13. &#8220;Roadside Crosses&#8221; by Jeffery Deaver 2009<br \/>14. &#8220;Road Dogs&#8221; by Elmore Leonard 2009<br \/>15. &#8220;Parallel Play &#8211; Growing up with Undiagnosed Asperger&#8217;s&#8221; by Tim Page 2009<br \/>16. &#8220;Runner&#8221; by Thomas Perry 2009<br \/>17. &#8220;That Old Cape Magic&#8221; by Richard Russo 2009<br \/>18. &#8220;Rough Country&#8221; by John Sandford<br \/>20. &#8220;The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year&#8221; by Michael Stein&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really into these Blogging Reading Challenges. So far, I&#8217;ve entered more challenges than what I&#8217;ve read books in 2009. Let me see, so far, four challenges and, well, &#8230; one boook. Hey, quit smirking. I use the Tulsa City County Library a lot so I wanted a challenge for public libraries and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,712],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-reading-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}