At the beginning of this year we challenged one another to read a book a week and thus this blog was born. Did we make it? Not quite, but we tried hard and read much more than we did the previous year!
For those of you looking for excuses for not finishing our project on time, well you aren't going to get those here; but I will say it is interesting how one book can throw you off your book-loving game and another can re-ignite your passion for reading. So here's the report card for the year:
-L:
Books read: 47 (not too far off target)
Books started and not finished: 2 (
The Reader - yeah, not so much into the porn,
Vanity Fair - still holding out hope in the bedside basket for books better left for tomorrow).
Books finished and not yet reviewed: 7 (yeah, that list is long, blame it on the baby growing in my tummy, so good to know I will always and ever have someone to blame things on - welcome to parenting 101)
Favorites of the year:
The Road,
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
-D:
Books read; 43 - farther off target, but could count 44 as I didn't count The Jesus Manifesto. Meh
Books started and not finished: Towers of Sunset, The Passage, The Stand, and Wolves of Calla. It's not that I don't want to finish the books, but I have some background to finish. With WoC I needed to read The Stand first. I stopped reading The Stand b/c of the size and thought I should try to get to 52 books but then started a couple 1000 page books in it's stead. I'm currently reading ToS and The Passage before picking the stand back up
Books finished and not yet reviewed: 1 - No Country for Old Men
Favourites of the year: That's a tough one - The Road, Soldiers Live, and The Gathering Storm.
I was thinking about the fact that I didn't finish up 52 books this year, but I was able to read a ton of pages! I have nearly 10,000 pages in Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, and Joe Abercrombie. That's eleven books only. That's 33 300 page books. =\ But our challenge wasn't to read the most pages, but to read 52 books in a year.
It sounds like we're going to be a little busier next year so we might not get through the same amount of reading as this year. But we'll keep plugging along with Leah reading books that people are interested in and I'll live in my little fantasy world.
Happy New Year!
Sounds like you both had a great year getting through all of those books. I hope that you enjoy all the challenges of parenting coming up for you in 2011. All the best
ReplyDeleteI really should try to get my hands on a copy of The Road. I've heard so many good things about it. Good luck with your 2011 goals. I hope you read 52 books. :)
ReplyDeleteboth of you did a great job all the magazines should count and the cookbooks plus all your Bible reading
ReplyDeleteUgh, I'm 19 pages into The Reader and already don't like it. But I have to read it for a class (my teacher gave out 600 pages of reading due the first day of class. boo!) I really liked The Road, too. Though it's been over a year since I read it I still think about it. Glad you had a good year of reading!
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