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For the first time ever I finished the 50 book challenge! YAY!! Okay, so they weren't all works of literary gravitas (50 Shades that definitely means you), but they did all help me to complete one goal that I set myself in 2012. I re-visited my romance roots hard core, and recalled the wacky path that led me to my interest in medieval lit. It's a schizophrenic list, to say the least.
January (7)
Whitney, My Love - Judith McNaught
Almost Heaven - Judith McNaught
Something Wonderful - Judith McNaught
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Velvet Song - Jude Deveraux
Highland Velvet - Jude Deveraux
Velvet Promise - Jude Deveraux
February (1)
Peter Pan in Scarlet - Gearldine McCaughgrean
March (5)
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Girl Goddess #9 - Francesca Lia Block
The Auction - Kitty Thomas
April (2)
J-Pop Love Song - Shiree McCarver
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
May (3)
A Holiday to Remember - Shiree McCarver
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
White Girl Problems - Babe Walker
June (4)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Prince of Ravenscar - Catherine Coulter
Veil of Night - Linda Howard
Rapture Becomes Her - Shirlee Busbee
July (9)
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
The Heiress Bride - Catherine Coulter
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
Fifty Shades of Gray - E.L. James
Fifty Shades Darker - E.L. James
Extras - Scott Westerfeld
Home - Toni Morrison
Chime - Franny Billingsly
Please Look After Mom - Kyung-Sook Shin
August (8)
Fifty Shades Freed - E.L. James
The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold - Francesca Lia Block
Girl Parts - John M. Cusik
The Girl in the Steel Corset - Kady Cross
With My Body - Nikki Gemmell
Frozen in Time - Koko Brown
Enchanted - Elizabeth Lowell
Untamed - Elizabeth Lowell
September (6)
Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffery
The China Bride - Mary Jo Putney
The Wild Child - Mary Jo Putney
Wicked Nights - Gena Showalter
The Darkest Night - Gena Showalter
The Great Escape - Susan Elizabeth Philips
October (2)
The Darkest Kiss - Gena Showalter
The Darkest Pleasure - Gena Showalter
December (3)
Beg For It - Minx Malone
The Drowning Girl - Caitlin Kiernan
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
So, for 2013, I will continue to read. Don't I always! But this year, instead of aiming for 50 books total, I will endeavor to read 10 literary classics amongst everything else that I read. We're starting with Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. And, at some point, I will hopefully finish out Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell (with all the notes that I have to take, it's slow going).
Here's to 2013!
January (7)
Whitney, My Love - Judith McNaught
Almost Heaven - Judith McNaught
Something Wonderful - Judith McNaught
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Velvet Song - Jude Deveraux
Highland Velvet - Jude Deveraux
Velvet Promise - Jude Deveraux
February (1)
Peter Pan in Scarlet - Gearldine McCaughgrean
March (5)
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Girl Goddess #9 - Francesca Lia Block
The Auction - Kitty Thomas
April (2)
J-Pop Love Song - Shiree McCarver
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
May (3)
A Holiday to Remember - Shiree McCarver
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
White Girl Problems - Babe Walker
June (4)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Prince of Ravenscar - Catherine Coulter
Veil of Night - Linda Howard
Rapture Becomes Her - Shirlee Busbee
July (9)
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
The Heiress Bride - Catherine Coulter
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
Fifty Shades of Gray - E.L. James
Fifty Shades Darker - E.L. James
Extras - Scott Westerfeld
Home - Toni Morrison
Chime - Franny Billingsly
Please Look After Mom - Kyung-Sook Shin
August (8)
Fifty Shades Freed - E.L. James
The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold - Francesca Lia Block
Girl Parts - John M. Cusik
The Girl in the Steel Corset - Kady Cross
With My Body - Nikki Gemmell
Frozen in Time - Koko Brown
Enchanted - Elizabeth Lowell
Untamed - Elizabeth Lowell
September (6)
Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffery
The China Bride - Mary Jo Putney
The Wild Child - Mary Jo Putney
Wicked Nights - Gena Showalter
The Darkest Night - Gena Showalter
The Great Escape - Susan Elizabeth Philips
October (2)
The Darkest Kiss - Gena Showalter
The Darkest Pleasure - Gena Showalter
December (3)
Beg For It - Minx Malone
The Drowning Girl - Caitlin Kiernan
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
So, for 2013, I will continue to read. Don't I always! But this year, instead of aiming for 50 books total, I will endeavor to read 10 literary classics amongst everything else that I read. We're starting with Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. And, at some point, I will hopefully finish out Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell (with all the notes that I have to take, it's slow going).
Here's to 2013!
