Favorite Books of the Year
- Fables: The Witches
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
- Sunshine by Robin McKInley
- Timeless by Gail Carriger
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Allison Hewitt is Trapped / Sadie Walker is Stranded by Madeleine Roux
- The Lost Hero / Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
- His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
- Newsflesh trilogy by Mira Grant
Honorable Mentions: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Persuasion and Northanger Abbeyby Jane Austen and The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde. Since these are rereads, I decided not to put them in my Top 10 (seems like cheating a bit). But that doesn't mean that I didn't just love these. Check them out if you've never read.
Total Books Read -- 184 books
Total Pages Read -- 58,309 pages
I averaged 4859 pages per month. My lowest month was August with 2751 pages (health issues). My highest month was January with 7005 pages. I hope to read 60,000 pages next year.
Book Rating Stats -- I may have to get a bit stricter about my ratings. They seem a bit top heavy. Or maybe I really have bene reading some great books.
- 5 stars -- 100 books
- 4 stars -- 57 books
- 3 stars -- 18 books
- 2 stars -- 9 books
- 1 star -- 0 books
Special Projects/Features
Readathons -- 11 total completed! I wanted to complete at least one a quarter, and I definitely accomplished that. For the start of 2013, I have already committed to Bout of Books 6.0 and am possibly hosting a challenge.
- January -- Bout of Books and Winter's Respite
- April -- Spring into Horror
- May -- Bout of Books
- July -- High Summer and Once Upon a Readathon
- August -- Labor Day and Bout of Books
- October -- FrightFall
- December -- Book Drunkard Readathon and Book Club Bash Readathon
Bloggiesta in September -- I finally joined the fun. I've gotten to the point where i need to take a break from time to time to work behind the scenes of the blog. This was such a great opportunity to accomplish just that. I'm sure I'll be joining in on the fun in the spring.
Day Zero Project -- I don't think I'll finish it all, but I do love having goals.
Quote Wednesday -- I got back into the swing of Quote Wednesday this year and want to keep my momentum.
Music Monday -- This year was a ton of My Years music posts. Next year I will be highlighting my favorite songs. I still really really love this feature.
Top Ten Tuesday -- I got back in the swing of things, and also become more picky. I didn't do every Tuesday list, but picked the ones I really wanted to do. This helped me keep excited about participating.
Reading Challenges
- Goodreads -- 175/175 100%
- Semi-Charmed -- 9/14 60%
- Zombies -- 24/24 100%
- Young Adult -- 12/12 100%
- Vampires -- 10/10 100%
- Fantasy -- 10/10 100%
- Romance -- 10/10 100%
- Telling Tales -- 10/10 100%
- Historical Fiction -- 10/10 100%
- Graphic Novel -- 20/20 100%
- Shakespeare -- 12/12 100%
- SciFi -- 5/5 100%
- Outlander -- 0/5 0%
- Mixing It Up -- 16/16 100%
- Back to the Classics -- 9/9 100%
- Harry Potter -- 7/7 100%
- Fables -- 5/5 100%
- Read Your Name -- 23/23 100%
- A to Z -- 24/26 92.3%
- What's In a Name -- 6/6 100%
- Support Your Local Library -- 37/37 100%
- Mount TBR -- 95/150 63.3%
- Dewey Decimal -- 27/38 71.1 %
- Books2Movies -- 20/20 100%
- My Years -- 22/30 73.3%
- Color Coded -- 6/9 66.7%
Total: 19/26 challenges 73% done
Total: 654/743 slots 88% done
Overall Thoughts/Reflections/Musings/Ideas
2012 was a great reading year. I got more organized and read some great books. I participated a good number of readathons and challenges. And I even got back into some of my regular features. Overall, I am super excited about my accomplishments. For 2013, I am trying to change up my reading challenges and branch out a bit. Here's to the new year!
