I did not write down a ton of goals and resolutions this year. I feel like there's been enough change, stretching, bending, growing just naturally happening around here based on our circumstances. BUT I did make a few goals and wrote them down. One goal? Read more!
I love to read. I already do read a lot, but I actually made a list of books I read in 2011 (it's incomplete because I can't remember them all) and I made a list for the books I want to read in 2012.
Here's a list of a few of the books I read last year:
-Jane Eyre
-Pride & Prejudice
-The White Queen (SUCH a good book!)
-The Soldier's Wife (loved this one too!!)
and....
here's my list for this year so far:
-Little Women
-The Twilight Series (i've never read these! *gasp!*)
-To Kill a Mockingbird (rereading this. i love it)
-The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
-Anne of Green Gables (i've never read this either!)
SO...is there anything else I need to add?? There's also several parenting books that I like to reread every year too. I'm going to keep a running list of my read books on the side of my blog, so I can actually remember what I've read :)
Hope you had a great holiday weekend!!
xo,
{alicia}
23 comments:
'The Hunger Games' Trilogy...amazing, I am not a sic-fi girl, but I LOVED these and breezed thru them...
the Twilight books are light and fast non-thinking books...
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorites...I've decided that I want to try to read it every year...
I read 'The Other Boleyn Girl' by Philippa Gregory this past year and was adding more of her books to my read list, I have been told both 'The Red Queen" &'The White Queen' are great reads.
And I also have Anne on my read list this year, I have also never read them and shocked a few people when I told them.
happy reading!
~Kiera
Popping by to
wish you Happy
New Year, full
of joy-FULL memories
in your new home!
I just finished "Major
Pettigrew's Last Stand"
and am starting "The
Tiger's Wife," and both
are very good. If you
haven't read "The Art
of Racing in the Rain,"
be SURE to add it to
your list!
Hugs,
Suzanne
I'm also reading The Hunger Games. I'm not a huge reader, but I'm getting better. Not a lot of time when you're in school. If you're looking to buy the twilight books, I know a girl who is willing to sell them. (Me. I read half of the first one and didn't like them. at all.) And i got all 4 of them for Christmas one year. Ha. So if you're interested, let me know! I'll be happy to get rid of them!
A women after my own heart!! Getting her reads lined up for the coming year. I would recommend Jane Eyre always. The Paris wife is on my list this year too- combines two of my loves; France and the 20's. Happy reading and new year:)
That's one of my goals this year too! I'm reading Pride and Prejudice right now. I CAN'T BELIEVE you haven't read Ann of Green Gables- you'll have to tell me what you think! I loved those books! Loved the Potato Peel Society too. I'll be jotting down a few of your titles.
Was thinking of you today as I finalized lesson plans for this week. Are you ready? Me neither. Blessings to you fun friend! Have missed you!
ya...those parenting books are ones i need to constantly reread;) i'm going to write down the ones you said were good...i've been meaning to do my 2012 list also! i agree HUnger Games was good. my favorite book series is seriously corrupt, but you will fall IN LOVE with the series. promise. Outlander by diana gabaldon. (i'm a total prude, so fair warning it's di.r.ty. but for this prude it's #1). i just read to kill a mockingbird last year for the first time!
I love Jane Eyre. I loved White Queen. The Guernsey book is delightful!! You must read Anne of Green Gables too! I want to read The Soldiers Wife. Unbroken is an AMAZING book. Didn't think it was my kind of book, but loved it. Just read The Lost Wife which was sad, but good.
your book list looks great! Two books I've read recently that have changetd my life are: One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp and The People Code.
Happy Reading!And Happy New Year!
I really think you'd like A Long Long Time Ago & Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka. It's one of those books I can't shut up about. I loved it so much.
My advice is to pass on Twilight or just read the last 60 or so pages. It was just not that well-written or interesting in my opinion.
For me, I really want to read the Harper Lee biography and The Graveyard Book.
i'm in love with words. and books. and reading. i could spend a day outside, in the sunshine reading the hours away. i need to read P&P. i started Guernsey and had to stop. i couldn't get over all the letter reading. maybe i should trudge through it and surprise myself. girl, you've read the Help, right?! if not, you better. it's so good, even better than the movie.
I second reading the help. It is SO much better than the movie!.
I picked up the sequel to "The Same Kind of Different as Me" tonight. I didn't know there was one, and don't really know if it is a sequel, but you can borrow it when I'm done if you want. It is called "What Difference do it Make". Happy New Year my North Carolina friend from South Dakota!
Tell me the parenting books. I'm desperate these days.
I sooo want you to read Anne of Green Gables. And...ahem...I didn't see the Bible on your list. I think we had this discussion last year. :)
( I love you...and for those who don't really know me I better add, just kidding. But I already know you know that. Oh..about the Bible not Anne of Green Gables. But I do want you to read the Bible. Ok..that is all...it just keeps getting worse.)
i can't believe
you've never read
Anne of Green Gables!
my do you have a treat in store.
and i've just added
The Paris Wife to my list!
happy back to school week to you.
alison
I have The Soldier's Wife, Pride & Prejudice, Little Woman and the last Twilight book on my list for 2012!!! Along with 20 other books!! I choose 12 fiction and 12 non-fiction...we'll see how that goes!!!
Happy New Year!
Love both of your lists and may be adding a lot of them to my mile-long list to read! Perhaps I need to break it done for the year like you have done. I still have the Mark of the Lion series on my list. :)
I really think you would like The Hunger Games, too. Quick read! (That series is better than Twilight (in different ways of course). :)
I read, and reread all the Anne of Green Gables books when I was a child. LOVE them!! I'm also into Southern fiction. Loved The Help, Saving Ceecee Hunnicutt, The Secret Life of Bees. I am currently collecting Nancy Drew mysteries whenever I see them at the thrift shops. I read those as a younger girl and am loving them all over again.
Happy New Year!!
Elise
You'll whiz through the Twilight books, they are such quick reads and you don't have to think when you read them. I enjoy a good simple read :)
I've been told I need to read the Hunger games...so that's on my list this year. I also have books that I've promised to review and I still need to fit in a few books just for me...from my stash in the garage ;) I have quite the collection of random reads!
What parenting books do you read?
Biz
how'd i miss this one?? i wish i had more time to read. i really want to fix this problem. miss you. hope you are okay!
Thanks for your list of books you've already read... I love hearing your opinion on them. I'd suggest Little Men... it makes my heart happy :)
The Twilight Series... wonderful, very sweet and surprisingly clean love story
Hunger Games Series... first one is outstanding and then they go down hill from there. The last one is actually pretty depressing.
I've got the Anne of Green Gables DVD's... want me to bring them to the lake?
Talk to you soon... like I'm calling you right now! :)
Holy small world! I just downloaded Little Women on my kindle last night - can't wait to really read this! (I think I did growing up, but I don't really remember it). I also want to read To Kill a Mockingbird again! Seriously, we live too far apart - we could have a mini-book club - or at least talk about these books:)
The two best parenting books I've ever read (and there are a LOT of them) are Shepherding a Child's Heart and Boundaries with Kids. I reread these about once a year and refer to them often. Honestly, as much as I loved the Anne of Green Gables movies, I hated the books! The young Anne would have driven me crazy with her incessant talking!
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