{"id":11363,"date":"2017-01-03T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11363"},"modified":"2016-12-31T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T00:12:08","slug":"52-books-in-52-weeks-2017-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks-2017-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Books in 52 Weeks \u2013 2017 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2220\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\" alt=\"bookshelf\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg 512w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>A new year is once again upon us, and it is time to start year\u00a0eight of\u00a0the goal to read a book a week for the entire year,\u00a0totaling\u00a052 books in 52 weeks.\u00a0 In\u00a0<a title=\"52 Books in 52 Weeks\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks\/\">year one<\/a>, I only made it to 8 books.\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"52 Books in 52 Weeks \u2013 2011 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks-2011-edition\/\">Year two<\/a>\u00a0doubled that total.\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"52 Books in 52 Weeks \u2013 2012 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks-%e2%80%93-2012-edition\/\">Year three<\/a>\u00a0used\u00a0graphic novels to improve once again, finishing with 24.\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"52 Books in 52 Weeks \u2013 2013 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks-2013-edition\/\">Year four<\/a> was the first where I dropped from the year before, only finishing 18 books, which was well\u00a0short of the ultimate goal. \u00a0<a title=\"2014: The Year In Books\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/2014-the-year-in-books\/\">Three years ago<\/a>, I bounced back to finish with 23 books.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/2015-the-year-in-books\/\">Two years ago<\/a>, I had my best year since starting this challenge, not to mention my best reading year ever, finishing with 31 books.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/2016-the-year-in-books\/\">Last year<\/a>, I matched that high point in total books, though far surpassing it in total pages read thanks to reading the entire Harry Potter series.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to give it another go this year.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a few new books loaded in the Kindle app on my iPad, plus a few new purchases from Amazon, not to mention birthday and Christmas presents, so I\u2019ve got a good pile to start with.\u00a0 As a reminder, the rules I am using are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can count a book as read as long as you have completed the book in 2017 and at least 50% of that reading takes place in 2017<\/li>\n<li>Any book counts as long as you\u2019re not embarrassed to count it.<\/li>\n<li>Poetry collections do indeed count.<\/li>\n<li>Re-reading a book is okay as long as it isn\u2019t done this year. (Reading\u00a0<em>Twilight<\/em>\u00a0twice in 2010 only counts as 1 read)<\/li>\n<li>Audiobooks also count.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My first book of the year looks like it will\u00a0be <em>A Bloody Storm<\/em>, the third part of Richard Castle&#8217;s Derrick Storm novellas. \u00a0All told, 2017 should be another good year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year is once again upon us, and it is time to start year\u00a0eight of\u00a0the goal to read a book a week for the entire year,\u00a0totaling\u00a052 books in 52 weeks.\u00a0 In\u00a0year one, I only made it to 8 books.\u00a0\u00a0Year two\u00a0doubled that total.\u00a0\u00a0Year three\u00a0used\u00a0graphic novels to improve once again, finishing with 24.\u00a0\u00a0Year four was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7056,2890,1530,1909,2888,2889,775],"class_list":["post-11363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-a-bloody-storm","tag-amazon","tag-christmas","tag-harry-potter","tag-ipad","tag-kindle","tag-richard-castle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11637,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11363\/revisions\/11637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}