{"id":307,"date":"2014-02-01T22:34:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T22:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?page_id=307"},"modified":"2014-02-01T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T22:34:37","slug":"reading-challenges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/reading-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2015 Book Reviews<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough I will not be posting so many reviews in full on my blog in 2015, I will still be posted reviews elsewhere, typically Amazon, Goodreads and Booklikes. The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/2015-reviews\/\" title=\"2015 Reviews\">2015 Reviews page<\/a><\/strong> will also track reviews I do for other sources, typically the Historical Novel Society (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/historicalnovelsociety.org\/\" title=\"Historical Novel Society home page\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/historicalnovelsociety.org\/<\/a><\/strong>) and The Review Group (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thereview2014.blogspot.co.uk\/\" title=\"The Review Group home page\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thereview2014.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014 Reading Challenges<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/8796846-richard-abbott?read_at=2014\" title=\"Goodreads statistcs 2014\" target=\"_blank\">According to Goodreads<\/a><\/strong>, during 2014 I read 42 books, with a total of 11510 pages. 9 came out as 5*, 6 as 3*, and all the rest 4*. I&#8217;m not sure I trust the exactness of the figures but it&#8217;s a reasonable estimate! Just over half were historical fiction, about 1\/6 each science fiction and fantasy, and the remaining few were a mixture of different genres.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 I signed up for 2 reading challenges:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/historical-tapestry-2014-reading-challenge\/\" title=\"Historical Tapestry 2014 Reading Challenge\"><strong>Historical fiction<\/strong>: Historical Tapestry 2014 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge (25 books)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/the-mad-reviewer-2014-reading-challenge\/\" title=\"The Mad Reviewer 2014 Reading Challenge\"><strong>General fiction<\/strong>: The Mad Reviewer Reading and Reviewing Challenge 2014 (26 books)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Progress to date:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/historical-tapestry-2014-reading-challenge\/\" title=\"Historical Tapestry 2014 Reading Challenge\"><strong>Historical Fiction: 24 books<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/the-mad-reviewer-2014-reading-challenge\/\" title=\"The Mad Reviewer 2014 Reading Challenge\"><strong>General Fiction: 40 books (including historical)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-I5O8G2m-yhc\/UrApVrLGPjI\/AAAAAAAAUlY\/xDCds4BkJEg\/s320\/2014hf2.jpg\" alt=\"Historical Tapestry 2014 Reading Challenge\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carrieslager.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/the-mad-reviewer-reading-challenge-button.jpg\" alt=\"The Mad Reviewer 2014 Reading Challenge\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 Book Reviews Although I will not be posting so many reviews in full on my blog in 2015, I will still be posted reviews elsewhere, typically Amazon, Goodreads and Booklikes. The 2015 Reviews page will also track reviews I do for other sources, typically the Historical Novel Society (http:\/\/historicalnovelsociety.org\/) and The Review Group (http:\/\/thereview2014.blogspot.co.uk\/). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/reading-challenges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading Challenges<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}