{"id":2401,"date":"2013-10-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2013-10-23T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:13:10","slug":"tbr-2012-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2401","title":{"rendered":"TBR 2012 update &#8211; slowly, but surely!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my last update on <a title=\"Blogathon &amp; TBR wrapup = busy month of June!\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/2013\/07\/blogathon-tbr-wrapup-busy-month-of-june.html\" target=\"_blank\">July 1<\/a> chronicling my progress through the shelves full of pre-2013 books that I was determined to finally recommend on BooksYALove, I have<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>traveled to Singapore and Indonesia, via Japan and Korea,<\/li>\n<li>driven several hundred miles in Texas presenting IASL&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iasl-online.org\/sla\/giggleIT\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">GiggleIT Project<\/a> for global student writing through school libraries,<\/li>\n<li>moved 3 truckloads of\u00a0 semi-tropical plants in containers to their winter home,<\/li>\n<li>and read many, many eGalleys online with 30-60 day expiration dates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Chaos.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2460\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=2460\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Chaos.jpg?fit=529%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"529,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chaos\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Chaos.jpg?fit=529%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2460\" alt=\"Book cover of The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson published by Margaret McElderry Books\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Chaos-198x300.jpg?resize=92%2C139\" width=\"92\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Chaos.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Chaos.jpg?w=529&amp;ssl=1 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a>I haven&#8217;t written up as many <a href=\"http:\/\/evie-bookish.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/2013-tbr-pile-reading-challenge-sign-ups.html\" target=\"_blank\">TBR2012 Challenge<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pearl.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2765\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=2765\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pearl.jpg?fit=417%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"417,648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pearl\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pearl.jpg?fit=417%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2765\" alt=\"book cover of Pearl by Jo Knowles published by Henry Holt Books\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pearl-193x300.jpg?resize=92%2C144\" width=\"92\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pearl.jpg?resize=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pearl.jpg?w=417&amp;ssl=1 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a> books as I did earlier in the year, but did spotlight Nalo Hopkinson&#8217;s highly inventive Canadian-Jamaican fantasy <em>The Chaos<\/em>\u00a0 (my no-spoiler review <a title=\"The Chaos, by Nalo Hopkinson (book review) \u2013 myth to reality on city streets\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/2013\/10\/the-chaos-by-nalo-hopkinson-book-review-myth-to-reality-on-city-streets.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and Jo Knowles&#8217; growing up novel <em>Pearl<\/em>\u00a0 (more <a title=\"Pearl, by Jo Knowles (book review) \u2013 mystery fathers, faithful friendship\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/2013\/09\/pearl-by-jo-knowles.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), which brings my total to 51 for the year. Over one per week &#8211; not bad!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s on your to-be-read shelf these days?<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my last update on July 1 chronicling my progress through the shelves full of pre-2013 books that I was determined to finally recommend on BooksYALove, I have traveled to Singapore and Indonesia, via Japan and Korea, driven several hundred miles in Texas presenting IASL&#8217;s GiggleIT Project for global student writing through school libraries, moved [&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":[19,98],"tags":[5,31,56,60,8],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reflective","tag-coping","tag-non-us-author","tag-reading","tag-tbr2012","tag-us-author"],"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\/2401","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=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}