Saturday, January 2, 2010

A Year of Reading - In Review

With Goodreads making it so easy to keep track of my reading, I didn't keep a month-by-month word document like I have in the past. For five years, my only New Year's Resolution was to read 50 New-To-Me books over the course of the year.

If you check out my 2009 Goodreads Bookshelf you'll see that I read 98 new books! I'm satisfied that I exceeded my goal, but I think I probably could have done better. I really thought I would at least get to 100. Of course, this doesn't count all of the books I re-read or the hundreds of books I read at preschool over the course of the school year!

Jennifer's 50-in-2009 book montage



A Creed Country Christmas

Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos

A Very Ninja Christmas

Big Book of ''Top Gear'' 2010

The Big Book of "Top Gear" 2009

Hotly Bedded, Conveniently Wedded

All Creatures Great and Small

Sesame Street Unpaved: Scripts, Stories, Secrets, and Songs

Montana Creeds: Logan

Heat Wave

Curiosities of Literature

The Christmas Sweater

Murder With Puffins

Notes from the Dog

Montana Creeds: Dylan

Bed of Roses

Shakespeare's Counselor

Shakespeare's Trollop

Shakespeare's Champion

Shakespeare's Landlord

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters

Murder With Peacocks

Hunter's Moon

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Stage Fright

A Touch of Dead

Secret Lives of the First Ladies: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the Women of the White House

The Rustler

The Man from Stone Creek

A Wanted Man

State Secrets

Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents

An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't

Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures In Japan

The Bridegroom

The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

St. Raven

What Would Dewey Do? An Unshelved Collection

Read Responsibly: An Unshelved Collection

Library Mascot Cage Match: An Unshelved Collection

Vision in White

Unshelved, Vol. 1

There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale

Best Friends and Drama Queens

I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun

Swede Dreams

Spain or Shine

Dear Fatty

Sunshine

The Wind Blows Backward

I Know You Got Soul

Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications

A Widow's Hope

Montana Creeds: Tyler

Along for the Ride

Breathing

Amelia Rules! Volume 4: When The Past Is A Present

Amelia Rules! Volume 3: Superheroes

Amelia Rules! Volume 2: What Makes You Happy

Amelia Rules! Volume 1: The Whole World's Crazy

A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages

Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

Emma Jean Lazarus Fell in Love

Hate That Cat: A Novel

Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, And Forgotten Items from Around the World

100 Best Books for Children

Gooney Bird and the Room Mother

Gooney the Fabulous

Dead and Gone

Ransom My Heart

Gooney Bird Is So Absurd

Something, Maybe

The Dragonfly Pool

Mental Floss presents In the Beginning

One Night of Scandal

Deep Dish

Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying TRUTH! About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion

Caribbean Pirates: A Treasure Chest of Fact, Fiction, and Folklore

Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Stuff White People Like

Gavin & Stacey: From Barry to Billericay

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

A Fool and His Honey

The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy

Dead Over Heels

The Julius House

Dreams from My Father

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

Show and Tell: The Fine Art of Picture Book Illustration

Mental Floss: Scatterbrained

Forever Princess

Alvin Ho Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things

1001 Books for Every Mood: A Bibliophile's Guide to Unwinding, Misbehaving, Forgiving, Celebrating, Commiserating



Jennifer's favorite books »




But in the spirit of the new decade, I've decided to up my goal to 100 New-To-Me books over the course of 2010. I think I can do it, even though it will be a bit of a challenge. But *this* is the type of challenge that one can look forward to, yes? ;)

Next up: A BEST OF post!

1 comment:

Carrie Dixon said...

Great idea! I havent read nearly that many although I might have bought that many this year in hopes to. :)