{"id":1310,"date":"2016-03-17T21:07:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T01:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2016-03-17T21:07:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T01:07:02","slug":"more-on-gamifying-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"More on Gamifying Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1001\">gamifying reading<\/a> before both here and at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/\">In One Place<\/a>, my mostly reading blog. I&#8217;m continuing this approach as part of National Reading Month*, celebrated in March.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/thestorybykindle.tumblr.com\/\">The Story,<\/a> Amazon&#8217;s new reading newsletter, they featured Book Bingo, a bingo card with ideas for different kinds of books to read. I printed it out and decided to go for a black out, filling in all the blocks. I&#8217;m two books in and will certainly not finish it by the end of the month, but I&#8217;m happy to keep playing for the rest of the year as a way to mix up my reading. It has already encouraged me to pull <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/16570\/book\/128265551\">The Man in the High Castle<\/a><\/em> off the shelf as an example of a genre I don&#8217;t usually read, that of alternate history.<\/p>\n<p>Interested? You can download the bingo card <a href=\"http:\/\/thestorybykindle.tumblr.com\/post\/137640495095\/book-bingo-shake-up-your-reading-list-during\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*I can&#8217;t seem to find the actual sponsor for National Reading Month. It&#8217;s linked to NEA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/886.htm\">Read Across America<\/a> program that celebrates Dr. Seuss&#8217;s birthday at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about gamifying reading before both here and at\u00a0In One Place, my mostly reading blog. I&#8217;m continuing this approach as part of National Reading Month*, celebrated in March. In The Story, Amazon&#8217;s new reading newsletter, they featured Book Bingo, a bingo card with ideas for different kinds of books to read. I printed it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on Gamifying Reading<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,79,54],"tags":[411],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-gaming","category-reading","tag-national-reading-month"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-l8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}