•2/06/2011 07:36:00 PM
I bet you thought I had forgotten about this. No worries though, I am just really late in putting it together.
As many of you know, I obsessively keep a log of every book I read. I don't know where I got the idea, but I started it halfway through 2004 and have never stopped. I love it. It helps me to keep track of what I read and gives me a good snapshot of my year in reading. Here are the posts recapping 2008 and 2009.
This past year I have extended this obsession to Goodreads, which is by far my favorite of all the book community sites I have tried. And yes, I have tried several sites. I'm a book nerd, deal with it. Anyway, it does sometimes complicate things because there are books I listed as read in 2010 on Goodreads that I didn't add to my reading log for whatever reason. I am going to try not to do that this year.
I read 66 books I hadn't read before (75 according to Goodreads, which includes rereads), adding up to 20,915 pages.
Owned: 10
From Library: 56
Adult Fiction: 13
Nonfiction: 6
Young Adult Fiction: 41
Juvenile Fiction: 6
Books Reread: 4
Began 2010 with: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Ended 2010 with: Vixen by Jillian Larkin
Shortest: 96 pages - Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Longest: 563 pages - Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Oldest: 1869 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868 according to Goodreads)
Newest: Dec. 2010 - Vixen by Jillian Larkin (I read 20 books published in 2010)
Quickest to Read: 1 day - Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
(I read 3 different books in 1 day, but this one had the most pages)
Longest to Read: 21 days - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Favorite: The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins (I read all three in 2010)
Least Favorite: Scatterheart by Lili Wilkinson
(I ordered this from Australia because it wasn't released here and I was so excited
about it, but the story was weird and not at all what I was expecting.)
Most Surprising: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
(I don't like contemporary fiction as much, but this one blew me away, I loved it!)
Most Disappointing: Matched by Allie Condie
(This one had so much hype, I read it before it was published, and it was OK,
but not the amazing novel I was hoping for.)
Most Outside My Usual Choices: City of Thieves by David Benioff
(I don't remember why I read this one, but it is adult fiction, about two guys
searching around Russia for eggs during a war so they don't get killed. And I didn't
love it, but I liked it.)
Favorite New Author: Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts series, so great!)
I started 2011 by reading Patti LuPone's self-titled memoir. I've already read 9 books in 2011 so far though, again I am very late in posting this.
I don't know that I will have as much time to read this year now that I am back in school, but there are so many books I am excited about. Happy reading!
1 comments:
yay! so I found your blog and very much love your year-end-review of books. now I want to go look at my lists... :) SV