{"id":125,"date":"2012-05-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2012-05-01T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:00:00","slug":"happy-blog-birthday-to-me-reflective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Happy Blog Birthday to me! (reflective)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-4FYASPwzmDY\/T5_UGNkpeRI\/AAAAAAAAH6g\/kuCvqZlr0DA\/s1600\/cake-slice.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" sketch of birthday cake slice with candle><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"141\" width=\"117\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-4FYASPwzmDY\/T5_UGNkpeRI\/AAAAAAAAH6g\/kuCvqZlr0DA\/s200\/cake-slice.png?resize=117%2C141\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Wow &#8211; BooksYALove is a year old today!<br \/>Nearly 200 no-spoiler book recommendations posted,<br \/>Multiple blog challenges completed,<br \/>Now it&#8217;s time for the 2012 version of <a href=\"http:\/\/michellerafter.com\/the-wordcount-blogathon\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordCount Blogathon<\/a>, the challenge that got me finally started in blogging and the community that kept me going the whole year &#8217;round.<\/p>\n<p>I write the recommendations on BooksYALove for readers who seek something a bit different, who want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.org\/Libraries\/Awards\/YoungAdultsChoices2012_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">interesting books<\/a> that aren&#8217;t just the usual bestsellers piled in stacks at the front of the bookstore or screaming from ads. And no spoilers &#8211; ever! If you want to know the exact ending of a book or whodunit or who winds up with whom, you&#8217;ll need to read reviews somewhere else.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-i4hzMb6TRWk\/T5_WwdomFoI\/AAAAAAAAH64\/eaL_JDv80Vc\/s1600\/IMG_0020.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" photo of woman sitting next to statue children reading a book><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-i4hzMb6TRWk\/T5_WwdomFoI\/AAAAAAAAH64\/eaL_JDv80Vc\/s200\/IMG_0020.JPG?resize=200%2C150\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Young adult books are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2012\/03\/28\/the-power-of-young-adult-fiction\/when-authors-take-risks-thats-not-kid-stuff\" target=\"_blank\">not only for teenagers<\/a>, of course, as today&#8217;s YA authors skillfully navigate their characters through the perils of love and loss, identity and community, dreams and disasters that <a href=\"http:\/\/thewhitworthian.com\/2012\/04\/20\/book-review-young-adult-books-offer-valuable-insight-for-adults\/\" target=\"_blank\">folks of all ages share<\/a>. While some YA books are brief reads, others go well over 400 pages in hardback. If you like historical fiction or mysteries or paranormal intrigue or science fiction, you&#8217;ll find great YA books to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a toast to authors and to readers &#8211; may we share many memories together through young adult books for many years to come!<br \/>**kmm<\/p>\n<p>Birthday cake clipart courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webweaver.nu\/clipart\/birthday.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.webweaver.nu\/clipart\/birthday.shtml<\/a>. Photograph of reader statue (c)Katy Manck 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow &#8211; BooksYALove is a year old today!Nearly 200 no-spoiler book recommendations posted,Multiple blog challenges completed,Now it&#8217;s time for the 2012 version of WordCount Blogathon, the challenge that got me finally started in blogging and the community that kept me going the whole year &#8217;round. I write the recommendations on BooksYALove for readers who seek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[22,4,125,82,11,44,49,126,56],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflective","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-blogathon2012","tag-blogging","tag-communication","tag-friendship","tag-memories","tag-publishers","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}