{"id":508,"date":"2011-05-22T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2011-08-28T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:47:11","slug":"book-8-of-52-%e2%80%93-the-inner-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/book-8-of-52-%e2%80%93-the-inner-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 8 (of 52) \u2013 The Inner Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_509\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Inner-Circle-Brad-Meltzer\/dp\/0446577898\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1306074798&amp;sr=8-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-509\" class=\"size-full wp-image-509\" title=\"innercircle\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/innercircle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Inner Circle - Brad Meltzer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brad Meltzer returns with another tale of an ordinary guy who gets swept up into an extraordinary situation.\u00a0 This time, the guy is a archivist for the National Archives and the situation involves a girl from his past,\u00a0the President, the secret cabal of insiders protecting his secrets, and the other secret cabal protecting the nation&#8217;s secrets.<\/p>\n<p>For a 450 page book, this was a quick and exciting read.\u00a0 Meltzer certainly has a formula, but it is one he uses to great effect.\u00a0 The ending certainly seems to leave things open for a follow-up, which, according to Meltzer&#8217;s appearance on the Nerdist podcast, we have to wait at least 2 years for.\u00a0 Personally, I think it is worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>Taking an overall look at the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge, I have once again fallen considerably behind.\u00a0 But, I have already tied last year&#8217;s mark of 8 books, so I am far ahead of the pace.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ll end up somewhere around 20, which isn&#8217;t great, but better than the 1-3 books per year I&#8217;d been reading before the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Meltzer returns with another tale of an ordinary guy who gets swept up into an extraordinary situation.\u00a0 This time, the guy is a archivist for the National Archives and the situation involves a girl from his past,\u00a0the President, the secret cabal of insiders protecting his secrets, and the other secret cabal protecting the nation&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[710,711,759],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-39","tag-brad-meltzer","tag-nerdist","tag-the-inner-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}