{"id":17904,"date":"2018-05-10T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bapl.org\/?p=17904"},"modified":"2018-05-10T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:56:37","slug":"jennes-quest-to-100-books-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/jennes-quest-to-100-books-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenne\u2019s Quest to Read 100 Books in 2018: April update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Jenne from BAPL&#8217;s Youth Services department is on a quest to read 100 books this year. Here is the update for April!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see, April was a slow reading month. I\u2019m working on getting a small business off the ground in addition to my regular job at the library, so I didn\u2019t have as much free time this month! But don\u2019t worry, we\u2019re only 10 days in May and I\u2019m already on book #5 so I\u2019m still very much on track to hit 100 by the year\u2019s end (and probably even before).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><strong>We\u2019ll Always Have Parrots <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Donna Andrews- I discovered this series of punnily titled mysteries while on vacation in Florida in February, and I\u2019ve been enjoying them ever since. The birds from the title always have some role in the story, which makes for an amusing mystery. <\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A Discovery of Witches <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>by Deborah Harkness<\/strong>&#8211; The first in a trilogy about a vampire and a witch falling in love and fighting bad guys, this book sometimes made me feel like I was reading <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twilight<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for grown ups. But I also really enjoyed the story and the characters and am about to start the second in the trilogy. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17905 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/jenneapril.png?resize=398%2C334&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/jenneapril.png?w=940&amp;ssl=1 940w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/jenneapril.png?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/jenneapril.png?resize=768%2C644&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/>April reads: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sayers Swindle (Book Collector Mystery #2) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Victoria Abbott<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2040823?locg=421\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll Always Have Parrots (Meg Langslow #5)<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Donna Andrews<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/7223522?locg=419\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (Miss Julie #1)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Ann B. Ross<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/7980269?locg=421\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paris By the Book<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Liam Callanan<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/7223522?locg=419\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Death Overdue (The Haunted Library Mysteries #1)<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Allison Brook<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/7311297?locg=419\"><i>A Discovery of Witches<\/i><\/a> by Deborah Harkness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenne from BAPL&#8217;s Youth Services department is on a quest to read 100 books this year. Here is the update for April! As you can see, April was a slow reading month. 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