{"id":36,"date":"2013-01-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2013-04-29T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:58:10","slug":"january-progress-on-tbr2012-challenge-reflective-read-lots-recommended-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"January progress on TBR2012 Challenge (reflective) – read lots, recommended more"},"content":{"rendered":"
Faced with overflowing shelves of 2012-dated ARCs (advance reader copies) and published books as the old year wound down, I leaped at the TBR Challenge posted by Evie on her Bookish blog<\/a> (I’m #251). So, in January, I’ve re-read and written recommendations on BooksYALove (and am posting the brief reviews for several titles on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) for these 2012 books:Fantasy:
\nWatersmeet<\/i><\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Ellen Jensen Abbott<\/p>\n

Historical fiction:
\nA Hundred Flowers<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Gail Tsukiyama<\/p>\n

Paranormal:
\nEvery Other Day<\/a>, <\/i>by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
\nThe Unnaturalists<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Tiffany Trent<\/p>\n

Realistic fiction – Young Adult:
\nThe Butterfly Clues<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Kate Ellison
\nThe Difference Between You and Me<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Madeleine George
\nFish in the Sky<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Fridrik Erlings
\nMoonglass<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Jessi Kirby
\nPutting Makeup on the Fat Boy<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Bil Wright
\nWhat Happens Next<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Colleen Clayton<\/p>\n

SciFi:
\nAdaptation<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 by Malinda Lo
\nYear Zero<\/i><\/a>, by Rob Reid<\/p>\n

As you’re hunting up these great books, remember to check with your local library<\/a> and independent bookstore<\/a>, since all these titles have been published already. Keeping your book-dollars close to home is good sense and good business, as these singing booksellers<\/a> remind us!<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m making progress on my To-Be-Read stack of new books and 2013 ARCs, while also writing up my To-Be-Recommended books from 2012 (and some from 2011!). Let’s see what February brings…
\n**kmm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faced with overflowing shelves of 2012-dated ARCs (advance reader copies) and published books as the old year wound down, I leaped at the TBR Challenge posted by Evie on her Bookish blog (I’m #251). So, in January, I’ve re-read and written recommendations on BooksYALove (and am posting the brief reviews for several titles on www.abookandahug.com) […]<\/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":[19,41,98,62],"tags":[82,99,55,97,49,31,56,60,3,8],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-paranormal","category-reflective","category-science-fiction","tag-blogging","tag-bookandahug","tag-books","tag-habits","tag-memories","tag-non-us-author","tag-reading","tag-tbr2012","tag-teens","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\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}