{"id":45843,"date":"2013-11-05T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=45843"},"modified":"2013-11-05T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:35:32","slug":"what-to-read-while-waiting-for-season-4-of-downton-abbey-to-start-in-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=45843","title":{"rendered":"What to Read While Waiting for Season 4 of Downton Abbey &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Roselle Pendergast, Head Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=5699\" target=\"_blank\">INALJ Minnesota<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">What to Read While Waiting for Season 4 of Downton Abbey to Start in January 2014?<\/span><\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roselle.Pendergast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-45845\" alt=\"Roselle.Pendergast\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roselle.Pendergast-300x200.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roselle.Pendergast-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roselle.Pendergast.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m sure many of us are eagerly waiting for the start of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/downtonabbey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Downton Abbey\u2019s 4<sup>th<\/sup> season<\/a>, which starts January 5<sup>th<\/sup> 2014 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS\u2019s Masterpiece Classic<\/a>. I\u2019ve been finding myself reading Jane Austen\u2019s books that I would have never read prior to Downton Abbey. I\u2019m now slowly reading my way through \u201cEmma.&#8221; It\u2019s very intriguing how shows we all love compel us to seek out books that are about the same topics of our favorite shows.<\/p>\n<p>So with that in mind, I did some Internet searching and came up with the following to read while we wait for the season to start:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GoodReads<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/similar\/16424402-the-world-of-downton-abbey\" target=\"_blank\">great list<\/a> compiled by GoodReads members based on books similar to Jessica Fellowes\u2019 (Niece of Julian Fellowes) book titled \u201cThe World of Downton Abbey\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wizzley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wizzley<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/wizzley.com\/books-to-read-if-you-like-downton-abbey\/\" target=\"_blank\">another list<\/a> as well that contains one or two books similar to the GoodReads list but it stands on its own with unique books in its short list.<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While the Internet does have a vast number of suggestions and lists from other passionate readers (i.e., search \u201cDownton Abbey books\u201d), you can\u2019t go wrong with your own library\u2019s suggestions!\u00a0 For an example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Public Library<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/nypl.bibliocommons.com\/list\/show\/87527376_nypl_seward_park\/93486780_if_you_like_downton_abbeysimilar_books_and_films_for_obsessive_fans\" target=\"_blank\">list of their own<\/a>, which isn\u2019t limited to just books but other items they have in their collection, i.e. DVDs, CDs, and so on.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibrary.org\/index.cfm?src=m\" target=\"_blank\">Springfield-Greene County Library District<\/a> in Springfield, Missouri has a similar <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibrary.org\/blogs\/article.cfm?aid=1727\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing all these submissions from other libraries had me curious about MY library district, the <a href=\"http:\/\/hclib.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hennepin County Library district<\/a> in Minneapolis, MN.\u00a0 Just as I thought! There\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hclib.org\/pub\/bookspace\/mybooklists\/showlist.cfm?ListID=5661\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a> as well!\u00a0 So go, check out YOUR library\u2019s list, and maybe make a few suggestions of your own.<\/p>\n<p>The question is\u2026how many of them can we read before the season begins?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Roselle Pendergast, Head Editor, INALJ Minnesota What to Read While Waiting for Season 4 of Downton Abbey to Start in January 2014?\u00a0 I\u2019m sure many of us are eagerly waiting for the start of Downton Abbey\u2019s 4th season, which starts January 5th 2014 on PBS\u2019s Masterpiece Classic. I\u2019ve been finding myself reading Jane Austen\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=45843\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":45845,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3592,2103,3643,5606,5125,5605],"class_list":["post-45843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-downton-abbey","tag-inalj-minnesota","tag-period-fiction","tag-readers-advisory","tag-roselle-pendergast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Roselle.Pendergast.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-bVp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}