{"id":17881,"date":"2021-11-22T01:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2021-11-15T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T20:33:15","slug":"prolific-authors-13-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/prolific-authors-13-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors &#8211; 13 Books"},"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=\"\" 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>Way back in December of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/prolific-authors\/\">2011<\/a>\u00a0(and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I&#8217;ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books I&#8217;ve read through August. Since our last check-in, I\u2019ve read an additional 60 books from 54 different authors. There shouldn\u2019t be much movement over the past 2 years, but it\u2019s time to take another look and see if my \u201cfavorite\u201d authors have changed much in that time span.\u00a0 Today, we continue with the only author I&#8217;ve read a total of 13 times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greg Rucka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I first became aware of Greg Rucka through his prestigious comic book work.\u00a0 In 1999, I read the first entry in his Atticus Kodiak series, <em>Keeper<\/em>.\u00a0 I followed up with the next three entries the following year, bringing my up to date with his work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2041\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Alpha-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2041\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2041\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Alpha-cover-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Alpha-cover-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Alpha-cover.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alpha &#8211; Greg Rucka<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From that point on, I picked up each of his original works as they were released, including 3 more entries in the Kodiak series, 3 novels based on his <em>Queen &amp; Country<\/em> comic book series, 1 stand alone work, and, most recently, the 2 books in the Jad Bell series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December of\u00a02011\u00a0(and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I&#8217;ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books [&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":[349,6997,417],"class_list":["post-17881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-greg-rucka","tag-keeper","tag-queen-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881","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=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18242,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions\/18242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}