{"id":24192,"date":"2014-11-17T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=24192"},"modified":"2018-10-17T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:02:14","slug":"ucba-fun-facts-book-quitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2014\/11\/ucba-fun-facts-book-quitter\/","title":{"rendered":"UCBA Fun Facts: Are you a quitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:\u00a0<\/strong>What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?<\/em><\/h2>\n

\"Heather\"Heather Maloney, Library Director:\u00a0<\/strong>Sleep and kids….I love both dearly.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Michelle\"\u00a0Michelle McKinney, Reference\/Web Services Librarian:<\/strong>\u00a0f I can’t connect with the characters or plot or if it’s taking too long to get moving. I normally give a book 3 chapters to catch my attention.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Kellie\"Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian:\u00a0<\/strong>Dragging plots. Or if I’m not in the right frame of mind for a certain genre. Sometimes I’m just suddenly not in the mood for a sobfest.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Lauren\"Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian<\/strong>:\u00a0If the book isn’t catching\/keeping my interest. \u00a0I used to give a book the first 100 pages, now, it’s more like the first 25-50.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Rachel\"Rachel Lewis, Technical Services Manager:\u00a0<\/strong>Setting my book down and starting another project.\u00a0 I do it ALL the time.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Chris\"Chris Marshall, Public Services Assistant:<\/strong>\u00a0Can’t relate to the characters.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Question:\u00a0What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through? Heather Maloney, Library Director:\u00a0Sleep and kids….I love both dearly.     \u00a0Michelle McKinney, Reference\/Web Services Librarian:\u00a0f I can’t connect with the characters or plot or if it’s taking too … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[1673,544,549,514,385],"class_list":["post-24192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ucbalibnews","tag-bymichellemckinney","tag-fun-facts","tag-library-faculty","tag-library-staff","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}