{"id":5046,"date":"2020-07-25T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2020-07-31T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T06:16:12","slug":"books-2020-jan-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/?p=5046","title":{"rendered":"Books &#8211; 2020 (Jan-June)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Got through 17 books in the first half of 2020. Not quite as many as I&#8217;d hoped for, but close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fiction: 13<br>Non-Fiction: 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/116060004_10163874666355635_5748762958367321326_o-870x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/116060004_10163874666355635_5748762958367321326_o-870x1024.jpg 870w, https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/116060004_10163874666355635_5748762958367321326_o-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/116060004_10163874666355635_5748762958367321326_o-768x904.jpg 768w, https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/116060004_10163874666355635_5748762958367321326_o-1305x1536.jpg 1305w, https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/116060004_10163874666355635_5748762958367321326_o.jpg 1625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorites would probably have to be The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (I recommend the audio book, which was fantastic!) and Becoming (also on audio book, read by Michelle Obama herself.) I also enjoyed 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and the Poldark Series by Winston Graham, which I decided to read after watching the PBS series. And Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite authors, so those were both good, too. I read Trumpet of the Swan aloud to Bree and Cate; they always asked for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one more chapter!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m so thankful to our public libraries that had ebooks available even while they were closed, and which now are open for pickups. Love, love, love my local libraries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got through 17 books in the first half of 2020. Not quite as many as I&#8217;d hoped for, but close. Fiction: 13Non-Fiction: 4 My favorites would probably have to be The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (I recommend the audio book, which was fantastic!) and Becoming (also on audio book, read by Michelle Obama herself.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-our-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}