{"id":3361,"date":"2015-02-10T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2015-02-10T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:30:00","slug":"2015-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/2015-reading-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/book_snake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3362 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/book_snake-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Book Snake\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/book_snake-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/book_snake.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>As my mom (who I know reads these blog posts) will attest, I&#8217;ve always been a big reader.\u00a0 Apparently, it&#8217;s what our family does.\u00a0 I noticed a lot of people posting in December about how many books they read in 2014, and I realized I had absolutely no clue how many books I read.\u00a0 A lot?<\/p>\n<p>So when I saw that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> was doing a 2015 Reading Challenge, I decided to participate.\u00a0 It seemed like an easy way to keep track of what I was reading.\u00a0 But then how many books should I pick?\u00a0 I decided to go easy and I picked 52.\u00a0 One book a week.\u00a0 That&#8217;s easily doable, and allows for some longer books.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I finished my 7th book of the year.\u00a0 Goodreads tells me that puts me 2 books ahead of schedule.\u00a0 Go me!<\/p>\n<p>But I can always use recommendations for books to read.\u00a0 What have you read lately?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll start.\u00a0 I read The Martian based on everyone&#8217;s recommendation.\u00a0 Based on the book blurb, I didn&#8217;t think it sounded all that great, but really, all of these people couldn&#8217;t be wrong.\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t.\u00a0 It was amazing.\u00a0 Go read it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else doing a book challenge this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my mom (who I know reads these blog posts) will attest, I&#8217;ve always been a big reader.\u00a0 Apparently, it&#8217;s what our family does.\u00a0 I noticed a lot of people posting in December about how many books they read in 2014, and I realized I had absolutely no clue how many books I read.\u00a0 A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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