Reading Wrap-Up: December 2012

Happy New Year, friends!

This is going to be short and sweet because I have another post coming a little later that outlines my plans for 2013. I can’t WAIT for you to see it. Essjay and I are doing SOMETHING SPECIAL with our reading in 2013. If you just can’t wait for my post to go up, well, I guess you could read her post first. Hee! I am so very excited about our plans. I ALMOST CAN’T CONTAIN MYSELF.

This is what I accomplished in December:

Number of books finished: 10
YTD: 147

Books read:

• NW, Zadie Smith
• Good Bones and Simple Murders, Margaret Atwood
• Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, D.T. Max
• The Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace
• Wishin’ and Hopin’, Wally Lamb
• American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar
• The Memory Palace, Mira Bartok
• The City and the City, China Mieville
• Faitheist, Chris Stedman (SO GOOD)
• Wizard and Glass, Stephen King

Number of books in progress: 2

• The Campaign of the Century, Greg Mitchell
• Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin

Number of pages read: 3,623 (not including the books I’m halfway through)
YTD: 51,048

Books reviewed:

• Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
• Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin
• Kindred, Octavia Butler

**I used the Daytum website to keep track of my reading stats in 2012, so you can see everything by visiting my Daytum profile.

Reading Challenges progress:

I GIVE UP ON ALL THE CHALLENGES. I finished reading all of the books for the Back to the Classics Challenge and the Chunkster Challenge, but I didn’t review them all. I didn’t write all the posts I needed to for the November’s Autumn Classics Challenge. I failed miserably at the Mount TBR Challenge. And last, but certainly not least, I threw in the towel for the Insatiable Booksluts’ End of the World Challenge; I wasn’t going to win anyway, and I am behind on SO MANY reviews. I had fun trying, though! Needless to say, I am not joining any challenges next year, but I will explain that in my next post.

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Ashley (my 12-year-old daughter) participated in two of the challenges with me: the Back to the Classics Challenge and the Mount TBR Challenge. She failed both, but she had so much fun participating. She only had one more book to read for the Back to the Classics Challenge (which she is ALMOST finished with), and she failed more miserably than I on the Mount TBR challenge. Haha! But she’s totally okay with it. She just likes to read. She doesn’t care about the rest. Yay!

Here’s a look at what Ashley accomplished in December:

Number of books read: 16
YTD: 117

• The Danger Box, Blue Balliet
• The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
• Confectionately Yours #2: Taking the Cake, Lisa Papademetriou
• Skinny, Donna Cooner
• Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All, Rachel Renee Russell
• The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies, David Lubar
• The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette, Katherine Lasky
• There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, Louis Sachar
• A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
• Sailor Moon Vol. 1, Naoko Takeuchi
• The Allegra Biscotti Collection, Olivia Bennet
• Who What Wear, Olivia Bennet
• Wonder, R.J. Palacio
• Choke, Diana Lopez
• The Teashop Girls, Laura Schaefer

Number of pages read: 3,736
YTD: 30,834

I wish you all the best in 2013!