{"id":13883,"date":"2018-12-31T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=13883"},"modified":"2019-01-03T19:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:33:43","slug":"2018-the-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/2018-the-year-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"2018: The Year In Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Another year has come to an end and it is time to take a look back at the 22 books I read over the past year, 6 less than last year.\u00a0 Of those 22, 7 were non-fiction and, of the 15 novels, only 1 was a TV show tie-in.\u00a0 Only one of the books came out of my dwindling \u201cto-read\u201d drawer, and 12 were e-books. \u00a0I read over 7,000 pages, my lowest total since at least 2013.<\/p>\n

Once again, a majority of the books I read this year were by authors I\u2019ve never read before. The 15 authors that I read for the first this year were:
\nMamrie Hart
\nDan Harris
\nGinger Zee
\nKrysten Ritter
\nKarin Slaughter
\nMichelle West
\nPaul Ruditis
\nMichelle McNamara
\nDavid Ross
\nDon Yaeger
\nAraminta Hall
\nAmber Tamblyn
\nLaura Lippman
\nLauren Graham
\nDrew Magary<\/p>\n

There was not a single author that I read multiple titles from during 2018.<\/p>\n

6 of the books I read were released this year, while 1 of them was released last century, exactly 60 years ago<\/p>\n

Finally, the breakdown by month.\u00a0 My vacation in September certainly helped pad its totals a tad bit.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Dec \u2013 1
\nNov \u2013 1
\nOct \u2013 1
\nSep \u2013 4
\nAug \u2013 2
\nJul \u2013 1
\nJun \u2013 0
\nMay \u2013 1
\nApr \u2013 1
\nMar \u2013 4
\nFeb \u2013 3
\nJan \u2013 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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