{"id":20,"date":"2014-02-19T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2014-02-19T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T19:20:10","slug":"books-books-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/books-books-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, books, books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am a serious book geek. \u00a0 If you have ever met me, that is probably not news. \u00a0I read probably 3-4 books a month &#8211; sometimes more. And I am all over the map in what I read- science fiction, general business, history, mystery, teen lit, marketing, literature&#8230;.pretty wide variety. \u00a0I love a good chat about a book &#8211; and if you have read something esoteric that I have enjoyed, I am tickled beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I do both Kindle and paper books. \u00a0For years I was a paper book purist, until I found that having 2-3 books on my all the time had some serious benefits (sitting in waiting rooms on short notice&#8230;.oy!) \u00a0So one of the sites I am sharing is print based and one is Kindle based.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">l admit to being terrible about getting to the library, as much as I love it. \u00a0I find that my universe happens and I am paying large fines for late books. \u00a0 I am also always looking for recommendations for good books. \u00a0So to keep the stream of books and reviews flowing without breaking the bank, I have had to cast a wide net. \u00a0I have found some amazing websites that help me with that. \u00a0 Here are two of my current favorites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My favorite book site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcrossing.com\/mybookshelf\/Lise46\" target=\"_blank\">www.Bookcrossing.com<\/a>. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve been a bookcrosser for years, at various levels of activity. \u00a0The website encourages people to Read, Register and Release books &#8220;into the wild&#8221; and then track where they go. \u00a0I have mailed books across the country and I have left books in assorted public places and had them found and shared by other book lovers.\u00a0\u00a0 I keep a wishlist that includes out of print books &#8211; and I have had folks send me some of those books. \u00a0It is a true community of book lovers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A new site that I have recently found is <a href=\"http:\/\/onehundredfreebooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">OneHundredFreeBooks.com<\/a>. \u00a0I am a new comer to this site, but have found an assortment of free kindle books on this site that I have downloaded and enjoyed a great deal. \u00a0I am reading things outside of my usual choices, and having current options dropped into my email box daily is a pleasure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Going forward, I&#8217;ll probably share some of my favorite books as well as book websites &#8211; hope that is useful to you!<\/p>\n<p>Smiles!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a serious book geek. \u00a0 If you have ever met me, that is probably not news. \u00a0I read probably 3-4 books a month &#8211; sometimes more. And I am all over the map in what I read- science fiction, general business, history, mystery, teen lit, marketing, literature&#8230;.pretty wide variety. \u00a0I love a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4,18],"tags":[28,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}