{"id":1920,"date":"2020-01-07T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2020-01-07T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T21:00:06","slug":"rainy-days-are-meant-for-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Days Are Meant for Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Painting<\/a>I have always loved to read, tucked in a chair, sprawled on the bed or the floor, backed up against a tree, floating in the pool. Here at the farm I have the choice of several porches, indoor and outdoor, equipped with rocking chairs and small tables whatever cuppa I have carried along with me.<\/p>\n

But, the older I’ve gotten, the less focus I seem to have for longer periods of time, a weakened ability to dive into a book, leaving the world behind. It’s not a surprise: adult life is much more complicated kid life when someone else was doing most of the things that I do now: I helped a bit with laundry and cooking, but I had specific chores rather than wide responsibilities. And then there’s work, of course, that boxes in the number of hours available in general.<\/p>\n

Honestly, part of the reason I managed a reading workshop when I taught middle school and fully supported the school’s “drop everything and read” program was that it meant my students AND me sometimes had 50 minutes of reading in a day. Teachers were encouraged to be good role models, and I was happy to oblige.<\/p>\n

I am determined to get back to those days of reading for hours on end, immersed in a book, in a story, to the point where the world fades away. I can turn off that grown up voice suggesting that I could be doing much more productive kinds of things than “just” reading. Just, indeed.<\/p>\n

And, there is nothing like a rainy day to curl up and read.<\/p>\n

I have given myself over to One Good Deed<\/em><\/a>, David Baldacci’s new book, which I hope is going to become a series. It is 1949, and Aloysius Archer has just been released after a wrongful prison sentence and bussed to Poca City where he is determined to get a clean start. Despite those plans, he quickly gets pulled into a murder mystery. Baldacci’s novel has all the elements of a classic crime novel, with gritty realism and snappy dialog. Archer is a compelling character who discovers his army scout training can come in handy when you are the prime suspect in a murder.<\/p>\n

I’m also in the midst of two other non-fiction books but for now, you can find me curled up by the fire with Baldacci.<\/p>\n

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I have always loved to read, tucked in a chair, sprawled on the bed or the floor, backed up against a tree, floating in the pool. Here at the farm I have the choice of several porches, indoor and outdoor, equipped with rocking chairs and small tables whatever cuppa I have carried along with me. … Continue reading Rainy Days Are Meant for Reading<\/span> →<\/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":[74,54],"tags":[506],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading","tag-david-baldacci"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-uY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}