{"id":4797,"date":"2014-01-02T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T13:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2014-01-02T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T15:28:39","slug":"52-books-in-52-weeks-2014-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks-2014-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Books in 52 Weeks \u2013 2014 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2220\" alt=\"bookshelf\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"307\" 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: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a>A new year is upon us, and it is time to start year\u00a0five of\u00a0the goal to read a book a week for the entire year,\u00a0totaling\u00a052 books in 52 weeks.\u00a0 In\u00a0<a title=\"52 Books in 52 Weeks\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks\/\">year one<\/a>, I only made it to 8 books.\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"52 Books in 52 Weeks \u2013 2011 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks-2011-edition\/\">Year two<\/a>\u00a0doubled that total.\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"52 Books in 52 Weeks \u2013 2012 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks-%e2%80%93-2012-edition\/\">Year three<\/a>\u00a0used\u00a0graphic novels to improve once again, finishing with 24. \u00a0<a title=\"52 Books in 52 Weeks \u2013 2013 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/52-books-in-52-weeks-2013-edition\/\">Last year<\/a> was the first where I dropped from the year before, only finishing 18 books, which was well\u00a0short of the ultimate goal.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to give it another go this year.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a few new books loaded in the Kindle app on my iPad, so I\u2019ve got a good pile to start with.\u00a0 As a reminder, the rules I am using are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can count a book as read as long as you have completed the book in 2014 and at least 50% of that reading takes place in 2014<\/li>\n<li>Any book counts as long as you\u2019re not embarrassed to count it.<\/li>\n<li>Poetry collections do indeed count.<\/li>\n<li>Re-reading a book is okay as long as it isn\u2019t done this year. (Reading\u00a0<em>Twilight<\/em>\u00a0twice in 2010 only counts as 1 read)<\/li>\n<li>Audiobooks also count.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My first book of the year will likely be <em>The Big Nowhere<\/em>, the last of the L.A. Quartet from James Ellroy which I am about 100 pages into. \u00a0There is also the rest of the Star Trek trilogy that I started last year and a new Greg Rucka novel coming out in June that I have already pre-ordered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year is upon us, and it is time to start year\u00a0five of\u00a0the goal to read a book a week for the entire year,\u00a0totaling\u00a052 books in 52 weeks.\u00a0 In\u00a0year one, I only made it to 8 books.\u00a0\u00a0Year two\u00a0doubled that total.\u00a0\u00a0Year three\u00a0used\u00a0graphic novels to improve once again, finishing with 24. \u00a0Last year was the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[349,2888,1592,2889,4247,563,4246],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-39","tag-greg-rucka","tag-ipad","tag-james-ellroy","tag-kindle","tag-l-a-quartet","tag-star-trek","tag-the-big-nowhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","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=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}