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Prolific Authors – Two Books

It is time once again to take a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.  This year, I’m once again on pace to set a new record for books read in a year, so I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books I’ve read through August of this year. Since our last check-in, I’ve read an additional 114 books, so there should be some movement over the past two years.  Without further ado, it’s time to take another look and see if my “favorite” authors have changed much over the years.  We begin today with the 40 authors I’ve read two times, one fewer than two years ago.

Laura Caldwell

I have no idea how I came across the work of this local author, but I must have enjoyed it enough to go back for seconds.  Unfortunately, she passed away in 2020, leaving behind a back catalog of fourteen novels and two non-fiction books.

Michael Chabon

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the most recent of the two works of his I’ve read.  I have another, Wonder Boys, waiting in the to read pile, so he rise up some day.

Matthew V. Clemens

The co-author, with Max Allan Collins, of the final two chapters of the Reeder and Rogers trilogy.

Ready Player Two – Ernest Cline

Ernest Cline

The man responsible for both Ready Player One and Ready Player Two.

Bill Clinton

The former president has co-written two novels with James Patterson.

Michael Connelly

The creator of Harry Bosch makes his first appearance thanks to his Renée Ballard spin-off series.

Laura Dave

I read my second novel from her, The Night We Lost Him, earlier this year.

Felicia Day

The first author here that I’ve happened to meet in person.

Cameron Dokey

She makes the list based on two entries in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series.

Warren Ellis

The comic writer, currently in exile after being called out for abusing women, makes the list thanks to two prose novels.

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Book 30 (of 52) – Making It Home

Making It Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League – Teresa Strasser

Ten years after reading about how she fought her fears to have a baby at age 39, Teresa Strasser returns with Making it Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League, a memoir of making peace with her father through a season on little league for said baby after losing both her brother and mother within four months.  The ups and downs of the season mirror their relationship, strained since childhood when Strasser was separated from her brother and sent to live alone with her mother.  By the end of the season, they learn how to deal with each other and with the loss they have suffered.

 

 

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2014: The Year In Books

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With another year coming to an end, it is time to take a look back at the 23 books I read over the past year, an increase of 5 from last year. Of those 23, 7 were non-fiction and, of the 16 novels, 8 were TV show tie-ins. Only 5 of the books came from the “to-read” drawer, and 8 were e-books.  I read a grand total of 9000 pages, the most in 1 year since 1992.

A majority of the books I read this year were by authors I’ve never read before. The 14 authors that I read for the first this year were:
Amy Poehler
James VanOsdol
John Passarella
Mary Karr
Thomas E. Sniegoski
William Lashner
Teresa Strasser
Adam Carolla
Bryan Bishop
John Green
Rob Thomas
Jennifer Graham
Brian Jay Jones
Gord Rollo

The ghost writer(s) for Richard Castle and David Mack were the only authors I read multiple times in 2014.

The six books that I read this year that were released this year were Richard Castle’s Wild Storm, Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Greg Rucka’s Bravo, William Lashner’s The Barkeep, Adam Carolla’s President Me, and The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham.

Finally, the breakdown by month.  Vacations in April and December certainly helped pad their totals a tad bit.
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Book 11 (of 52) – Exploiting My Baby

Exploiting My Baby - Teresa Strasser

Exploiting My Baby – Teresa Strasser

After having gone the past 5 years without reading any of the books written by the cast of the Adam Carolla podcast, I’ve now gone through 3 in a row, the most recent being former sidekick Teresa Strasser’s pregnancy memoir Exploiting My Baby.  Like the others, I had no intention of reading this book, which was released 3 years ago, until Strasser tweeted that Amazon had the book on sale for the low, low price of $1.67.  At that price point, I will probably buy just about anything, so I figured why not give this whole pregnancy thing a whirl.

At the advanced age of 39, Strasser and her husband decided to try and have a baby and, surprisingly (to them), they conceived within two months, setting off an adventure of worry, worry, and, just for good measure, a little worry.  Despite convincing herself that she would miscarry, be a horrible mother, and was undeserving of a baby, she successfully navigated her way through pregnancy, eventually giving birth to a son.  The book covers the many problems she faced, many of which were simply imagined, and how she faced her fears despite herself.

This should be the end of my Carolla-related reading for the time being, unless I stumble across a good deal for Adam’s first two books or Teresa’s replacement, Alison Rosen, decides to put out something.