{"id":17887,"date":"2021-12-13T01:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T07:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17887"},"modified":"2021-09-01T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T23:20:35","slug":"prolific-authors-17-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/prolific-authors-17-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors &#8211; 17 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=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg 512w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/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 finish things off with the author I&#8217;ve read the most, with 17 entries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Holder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My most prolific author first came to my attention in 1998, when I read <em>Halloween Rain<\/em>, her first entry, along with Christopher Golden, into the <em>Buffy The Vampire Slayer<\/em> series of books based on the television show.\u00a0 12 of her 17 entries, all of which are tie-ins to either <em>Buffy<\/em> or <em>Angel<\/em>, were read between 1998 and 2002.\u00a0 After a 9 year lay off, she returned to me attention in 2011 with <em>Carnival of Souls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_765\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/117-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-765\" class=\"size-full wp-image-765\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/117-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/117-4.jpg 420w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/117-4-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carnival of Souls &#8211; Nancy Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another 5 years went by, before she returned again with 2 books in 2016, once in 2018, and then one earlier this year.\u00a0 Seeing as I have depleted my backlog of <em>Buffy<\/em> novels, she&#8217;s likely to stay put for the foreseeable future, unless someone re-releases these cheaply on the Kindle.<\/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":[2856,106,914,713,9763,2889,913],"class_list":["post-17887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-angel","tag-buffy","tag-carnival-of-souls","tag-christopher-golden","tag-halloween-rain","tag-kindle","tag-nancy-holder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17890,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions\/17890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}