{"id":274,"date":"2008-03-24T17:32:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T21:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2008\/03\/24\/q1-2008-books\/"},"modified":"2009-09-06T22:40:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T02:40:30","slug":"q1-2008-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2008\/03\/24\/q1-2008-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Q1 2008 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope to read 50 books in 2008. Here is what I have read so far:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes<\/a> I had never read any Sherlock Holmes, so when I finished everything on my nightstand I grabbed this one off the bookcase. Except for a few words I had to learn, from my husband, it was a pretty good read.<\/li>\n
  2. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt<\/a> I put off reading this for over a year. My mom got it for me at Christmas a year ago. Now that I am teaching Sunday School, I am more into religious stuff. It was a very interesting read. I know it is her fictionalized version of events, but I am sure she did her research on the times, so it was interesting to find out what it was like then.<\/li>\n
  3. Angels Fall<\/a> Just a quick romantic mystery. Pretty well written, good twists.<\/li>\n
  4. Prodigal Summer<\/a> I LOVE Barbara Kingsolver. So far I have enjoyed every one of the books I have read by her. This one took me a lot longer than I expected. It was a little hard to get into, but once I did I really liked it. It was a wonderful combination of 3 tales.<\/li>\n
  5. Back Roads<\/a> Heart-wrenching tale about a young man taking care of his younger sisters.<\/li>\n
  6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)<\/a>Having never read the Chronicles of Narnia, I snitched the whole set from my church library and am reading them one after the other. This one was very interesting. I saw the movie on DVD last year, but the book was totally better.<\/li>\n
  7. Prince Caspian (Narnia)<\/a> I liked this one a lot. I love that the kids got to go back. I missed the beavers though, they were some of my favorite characters.<\/li>\n
  8. A Mango-Shaped Space<\/a> For 2 days I took a little break from Narnia, and headed to the world of synesthesia. This well written Young Adult novel told the story of Mia, a 13 year-old middle child with synesthesia. For the first time, she admits to others that she experiences this phenomenon. It has it ups and downs, and I definitely cried. It is a great book for preteens, teens, and parents.<\/li>\n
  9. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Narnia)<\/a> Back on to Narnia. I liked this one best so far. It was a great adventure, with some interesting moments. Although sometimes I feel like he was half-asleep while he was writing and missed some parts.<\/li>\n
  10. The Silver Chair (Narnia)<\/a> Just started this one. Not liking it so much so far, but I have to finish it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    March 24<\/strong><\/span><\/span> was the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I hope to read 50 books in 2008. Here is what I have read so far: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes I had never read any Sherlock Holmes, so when I finished everything on my nightstand I grabbed this one off the bookcase. Except for a few words I had to learn, from my husband, Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laundry-list","category-readingmaterials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}