{"id":20160,"date":"2018-12-14T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/?p=20160"},"modified":"2018-12-14T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:59:56","slug":"jennes-quest-to-read-100-books-concluded-did-she-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/jennes-quest-to-read-100-books-concluded-did-she-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenne&#8217;s Quest to Read 100 Books, Concluded! (Did she make it?!?!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Of course she did! Jenne, one of BAPL&#8217;s youth services librarians, has been on a quest to read 100 books this year. We&#8217;re talking novels! It is an impressive feat of literary longevity. Way to read, Jenne! See below for her October and November reports with some great recommendations. 100 books! That&#8217;s a lot of pages!\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-20165 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jenne3-300x300.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><b>November<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Books read this month: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books read so far this year: 104<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">November got away from me and not only did I not read as much as I\u2019d hoped, I also forgot to post my October books! So I\u2019ll post both now. Mostly cozy mysteries again this month, because they\u2019re fast and fluffy and only occasionally cause me to be afraid of things that go bump in the night. I\u2019m not doing so well at keeping up with my nonfiction reading, but I\u2019m going to keep trying! Any guesses for what my final count will be for the year??<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorites: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stand by Me<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Neta Jackson- This is the first in a short series about a college age woman who is exploring her faith and trying to help people in a Chicago community. It sounds like kind of a boring premise but the book itself was inspiring. <\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Death of a Toy Soldier <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Barbara Early- <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As always, I\u2019m a sucker for a cozy mystery and this was no exception. This series takes place in a vintage toy shop, which is a fun setting. To be honest this book made me want to open a toy shop, though hopefully it would be a murder free one.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>November reads<\/strong>: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stand by Me<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Neta Jackson<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wolfe Widow (Book Collector Mystery #3) <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Victoria Abbott<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Death of a Toy Soldier (Vintage Toyshop Mystery #1)<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Barbara Early<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The Marsh Madness (Book Collector Mystery #4)<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Victoria Abbott<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>October<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Books read this month: 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books read so far this year: ONE HUNDRED!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did it, guys! Technically I finished the 100th book at 12:05 am on November 1st, but since I hadn\u2019t yet gone to bed, I decided to count it towards October. Fittingly, and probably not surprisingly, the book that brought me to my goal was&#8230;a cozy mystery! That\u2019s right, hide your shock. Anyways, it\u2019s been very fun to work towards this goal, and now I guess I\u2019ll just stop reading for the rest of the year. NOT. I\u2019m obviously going to keep reading, so I\u2019ll finish out the year with these posts, since I know everyone is heavily invested in my reading now. I\u2019m going to try to read 5 non-fiction books before the end of the year, which I\u2019ve already realized is ambitious but here we go!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorites: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>First Comes Loves<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Emily Giffin- <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I related to this book because of a loss in my own life, but I also just liked it for the realness of the story. The two sisters are a hot mess and they hardly ever see eye to eye. They\u2019ve kept a lot of secrets, which have hurt them both. But when their biggest secrets and fears are revealed they must learn to love despite them. I found both of their stories to be inspiring, especially since neither of them ended up with a neat little storybook happy ending. It shows that life and love are messy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Case for Jamie (Charlotte Holmes #3) <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Brittany Cavallaro- <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wedding Cake Crumble (Cupcake Bakery Mystery #10) <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Jenn McKinlay<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>October reads: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/8383417?locg=431\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hitting the Books (Library Lover\u2019s Mystery #9)<\/span><\/a> <\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Jenn McKinlay<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/7163445?locg=431\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>First Comes Love<\/em><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Emily Giffin<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/8252534?locg=431\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What If It\u2019s Us<\/span><\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Becky Albertalli<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/7555853?locg=431\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (Meg Langslow #8)<\/em><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Donna Andrews<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bethlehem.sparkpa.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/7977925?locg=419\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Case for Jamie (Charlotte Holmes #3)<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>Wedding Cake Crumble (Cupcake Bakery Mystery #10)\u00a0<\/i>by Jenn McKinlay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20162 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jennefinal.png?resize=940%2C788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20161 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jenne_100books.jpg?resize=1060%2C861&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1060\" height=\"861\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Of course she did! Jenne, one of BAPL&#8217;s youth services librarians, has been on a quest to read 100 books this year. We&#8217;re talking novels! It is an impressive feat of literary longevity. Way to read, Jenne! See below for her October and November reports with some great recommendations. 100 books! 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