{"id":16705,"date":"2020-12-31T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16705"},"modified":"2020-12-30T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:31:22","slug":"2020-the-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/2020-the-year-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"2020: The Year In Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16817\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020books.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020books-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020books-768x1111.jpg 768w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020books-708x1024.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>As we wrap up 2020, a year where I should have been setting records due to the pandemic and stay at home orders, I managed to read only 23 books, a decrease of 5 books over last year.\u00a0 Of those 23, 8 were non-fiction and, of the 15 novels, only 2 were tied to a TV show.\u00a0 None of the books came out of my dwindling \u201cto-read\u201d drawer and 15 were e-books.\u00a0 I read just over 7,800 pages, my seventh highest total of all time.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in years, a majority of the books I read this year were by authors I have read before. The 11 authors that I read for the first this year were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ken Harrelson<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Snook<\/li>\n<li>Liz Phair<\/li>\n<li>Megan Abbott<\/li>\n<li>Greer Hendricks<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Pekkanen<\/li>\n<li>Cameron Esposito<\/li>\n<li>Rich Lindberg<\/li>\n<li>Sara Schaefer<\/li>\n<li>Alex Trebek<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Noah<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tom Perotta, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Karin Slaughter were the only authors that I read multiple titles from during 2020.<\/p>\n<p>6 of the books I read were released this year, while 5 of them were released last century, with the oldest first published in 1933.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the breakdown by month.\u00a0 My vacation to Hawaii in February and being off in December certainly helped pad its totals a tad bit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>December\u00a0\u2013 3<br \/>\nNovember\u00a0\u2013 3<br \/>\nOctober \u2013 0<br \/>\nSeptember \u2013 2<br \/>\nAugust \u2013 2<br \/>\nJuly \u2013 3<br \/>\nJune \u2013 0<br \/>\nMay \u2013 4<br \/>\nApril \u2013 2<br \/>\nMarch \u2013 0<br \/>\nFebruary \u2013 1<br \/>\nJanuary \u2013 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we wrap up 2020, a year where I should have been setting records due to the pandemic and stay at home orders, I managed to read only 23 books, a decrease of 5 books over last year.\u00a0 Of those 23, 8 were non-fiction and, of the 15 novels, only 2 were tied to a [&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":[9037,5758,8844,5332,8918,9117,8099,2369,452,8904,9013,9025,8919,7655,7631],"class_list":["post-16705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-alex-trebek","tag-cameron-esposito","tag-corona-virus","tag-erle-stanley-gardner","tag-greer-hendricks","tag-jeff-snook","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-ken-harrelson","tag-liz-phair","tag-megan-abbott","tag-rich-lindberg","tag-sara-schaefer","tag-sarah-pekkanen","tag-tom-perrotta","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705","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=16705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16819,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions\/16819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}