{"id":19571,"date":"2021-02-16T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19571"},"modified":"2021-02-16T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T18:09:09","slug":"taking-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19571","title":{"rendered":"Taking Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To finish all of <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13884\">Barbara Michaels&#8217;s novels<\/a>, I need read only 7 more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>The Master of Blacktower<\/em><\/li><li><em>The Dark on the Other Side<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>The Walker in Shadows<\/em><\/li><li><em>The Wizard&#8217;s Daughter<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>Someone in the House<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>Be Buried in the Rain<\/em><\/li><li><em>Smoke and Mirrors<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To finish all of <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4712\">Agatha Christie&#8217;s novels and short stories featuring Hercule Poirot<\/a>, I must read these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding<\/em> (collection of short stories)<\/li><li><em>Appointment With Death<\/em><\/li><li><em>Dead Man&#8217;s Folly<\/em><\/li><li><em>Five Little Pigs<\/em><\/li><li><em>Mrs McGinty&#8217;s Dead<\/em><\/li><li><em>Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories<\/em> (collection of short stories)<\/li><li><em>Submarine Plans<\/em> (a short story)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To finish all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?page_id=4630\">Top 100 Children&#8217;s Books<\/a>, I must read these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>Bridge to Terabithia<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>Maniac Magee<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>Harriet the Spy<\/em><\/li><li><em>Hatchet<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>Winnie-the-Pooh<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>The Watsons Go to Birmingham<\/em><\/li><li><em>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>Are You there, God? It\u2019s Me, Margaret<\/em><\/li><li><em>When You Reach Me<\/em><\/li><li><em>The Witch of Blackbird Pond<\/em><\/li><li><em>Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing<\/em><\/li><li><em>Ramona the Pest<\/em><\/li><li><em>Bud, Not Buddy<\/em><\/li><li><em>Where the Red Fern Grows<\/em><\/li><li><em>Island of the Blue Dolphins<\/em><\/li><li><em>Wind in the Willows<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>Ramona Quimby, Age 8<\/em><\/li><li><em>Number the Stars<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>The Great Gilly Hopkins<\/em><\/li><li><em>The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle<\/em><\/li><li><em>A Long Way from Chicago<\/em><\/li><li><em>Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher<\/em><\/li><li><em>Henry Huggins<\/em><\/li><li><em>Betsy-Tacy<\/em><\/li><li><em>My Side of the Mountain<\/em><\/li><li><em>Out of the Dust<\/em><\/li><li><em>Love That Dog<\/em><\/li><li><em>All-of-a-Kind-Family<\/em><\/li><li><em>Where the Mountain Meets the Moon<\/em><\/li><li><em>The Thief<\/em><\/li><li><em>The Book of Three<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>Sideways Stories from Wayside School<\/em><\/li><li><em>Sarah, Plain and Tall<\/em><\/li><li><em>Ramona and Her Father<\/em><\/li><li><em>The High King<\/em><\/li><li><em>Swallows and Amazons<\/em>*<\/li><li><em>The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane<\/em><\/li><li><em>The Indian in the Cupboard<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>An asterisk means that I own the book, so there&#8217;s no excuse for not reading it. And because I own so many unread books, the rule is that I can&#8217;t buy or borrow any other book from a list until I&#8217;ve read the ones that have asterisks. So, no more Michaels purchases\/borrowings until I&#8217;ve finished the three I own, and no more children&#8217;s book purchases\/borrowings until I&#8217;ve read the asterisked titles from that list. And I&#8217;ll go one further and say no more Poirot purchases\/borrowings until I&#8217;ve finished the Michaels list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To finish all of Barbara Michaels&#8217;s novels, I need read only 7 more: The Master of Blacktower The Dark on the Other Side* The Walker in Shadows The Wizard&#8217;s Daughter* Someone in the House* Be Buried in the Rain Smoke &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19571\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19571"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19580,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions\/19580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}