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Monday, December 31, 2012

Books of the Month(5): Part 2

Books of the Month is where I share books I got In My Mailbox, read, and reviewed during the entire month. This month I've added a new category: Shared from My Shelves. This includes books that I've loaned to my friends and other readers. Variations of these types of posts exist on many blogs so I am not claiming credit for this idea.

This was a huge month of books for me. I had to break this up into 2 posts. You can see Part 1 here, if you missed it.


Books of December









Purchased 
(all e-books)

Gifted
from Alicia

For Review/Blog Tour/Promotion

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Read
(links to Amazon) 
Annabel by Lauren Oliver 
 Radiant by Cynthia Hand 
 Chasing Sunset by Sami Lee 
  Wrong Bed, Right Guy by Katee Robert 

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Shared from My Shelves
(books borrowed by friends)

If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
Dead to You by Lisa McMann
Easy by Tammara Webber

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Reviewed
(links to reviews) 
 The Believing Game by Eireann Corrigan
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2012 Reads: Complete List, Goals, & Challenges

Last January I joined some challenges and set some personal reading goals. Throughout the year, I tracked my reading progress and listed below are my reading goals and accomplishments for 2012. Even though I didn't accomplish all that I set out to do, I have to say that I didn't do half bad.  

On January 1, 2013, I will have a whole new set of goals. I'm not officially joining any challenges, but I am setting several personal challenges. If you are interested, you can check back to see what they are on my January 2, 2013 post. 

Read 85 books for the Goodreads Challenge: Read 105 (all titles listed below)

Read at least 10 e-books: read 25!!

 Read 20 books from my bookshelves that I purchased prior to 2012 (doesn't include e-books): this is embarrassing, but I only read 13 books "from my shelves"

 Read at least 10 library books: only read 3

 Finally read Pride and Prejudice: I started Pride and Prejudice. I am about 1/3 of the way through and with each slow-turning page, I realize, with just a few hours left, it's not going to happen this year. So I'm pretty sure FINISH Pride and Prejudice will be on my 2013 goals list.



 Challenges:
(Links to Challenge Hosts)

 Debut Author Challenge Goal: 12; Read: 7

 Sophomore Author Challenge  Goal: 10; Read: 10

Completely Contemporary Challenge Goal: 10; Read: 10+

 YA Verse Books Challenge Goal: 5; Read: 5+ 
Complete 2012 Book List
(links to Amazon)
The date listed is when I finished the book.
*Library Book
**Borrowed from a friend
***reread
+e-book

January
2: Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard
5: Delirium by Lauren Oliver+
8:Major Crush by Jennifer Echols +
10: Girl Meets Boy by Kelly Milner Halls
11: The Wolf by Steven Herrick*
14: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
15: Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann
22: Unearthly by Cynthia Hand+
24:The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
29:Love and Leftovers by Sarah Tregay
February
2:The Knife and the Butterfly by Ashley Hope Perez
4: 2 Days (Gravel Road) by L.B. Tillit
12: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs**
18: Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe
25: Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin
28: Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters by Meredith Zeitlin

 March
3:  Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
6: Gil Marsh by A.C.E. Bauer
7: Scary School by Derek the Ghost
15: Hallowed by Cynthia Hand**
17: Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
23: Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
28: Life Is But a Dream by Brian James
31: I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure

April
2: The Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker
6:Purity by Jackson Pearce
9: The One That I Want by Jennifer Echols +
16:  One Week In December by Holly Chamberlin +
18:  First Comes Love by Katie Kacvinsky
21: Never Enough by Denise Jaden
22: Purple Daze by Sherry Shahan

27: How to Be Bad by Lauren Myracle, E. Lockhart, and Sarah Mlynowski +
29: Rules for Hearts by Sara Ryan

May
1: Zero by Tom Leveen
5: The Selection by Kiera Cass
9: The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher
15: The Forgetting Curve by Angie Smibert
19: 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson +
19: Inexcusable by Chris Lynch

20: Fade by Lisa McMann
20: Gone by Lisa McMann
22: Hourglass by Myra McEntire
27: Last Stop This Town by David H. Steinberg
28: My First Love By Callie West

 June
10: Hereafter by Tara Hudson ***
10: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare audiobook
12: Crazy by Amy Reed +
16: Such a Rush By Jennifer Echols
22: Arise by Tara Hudson +
24: One Moment by Kristina McBride

July
4: Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard
6: But I Love Him by Amanda Grace +
7: Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler

12: Shine by Jeri Smith-Ready
14: I Got This by Jennifer Hudson *
15: Jersey Angel by Beth Ann Bauman
19: Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
23: Waiting by Carol Lynch Williams
25: On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
28: Double Clutch by Liz Reinhardt +

 August
3: Junk Miles by Liz Reinhardt +
5: Slow Twitch by LIz Reinhardt +
13: Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories ed, by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones
17: All About Daisy by O'Dell Hutchison
22: Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
27:  The Stone Girl by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

30: Temptation by Karen Ann Hopkins

 September
1: Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge
1: Dead to You by Lisa McMann
2: From What I Remember by Stacy Kramer and Valerie Thomas
3: Lush by Natasha Friend
11: Timepiece by Myra McEntire
14: Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone (DNF, 126 pages)
17: Stolen by Lucy Christopher *
19: Saving June by Hannah Harrington +
23: Easy by Tammara Webber+
24: Second Chance by Katie Kacvinsky+
25: Hana by Lauren Oliver +

 October
6:  ttyl by Lauren Myracle
7: The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent
8: The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) by Kody Keplinger + ***
9: Never Enough Stories by Denise Jaden
12: Hick by Andrea Portes +
13:  How I Changed My Life by Todd Strasser
13: Burnout by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
13: The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan ***
14: The Lucky Kind by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
23: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward

 November
7: If I Know It's Coming by Nick Hupton
13: Ten by Gretchen McNeil
25:  Wild Girls by Mary Stewart Atwell

 December
2: The Believing Game by Eireann Corrigan +
4:  Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire +
8:  Confessions of an Angry Girl by Louise Rozett
8:  Kissing Tennessee by Kathi Appelt
8: Forget Me Not by Carolee Dean
9: Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill
9: Nothing Like You by Lauren Strasnick ***
9: Love, Ghosts, & Facial Hair by Steven Herrick ***
13: Not That Kind of Girl by Siobhan Vivian ***
16: Blubber by Judy Blume
22: Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains) by Laurie Boyle Crompton
28: Annabel by Lauren Oliver +
29: Radiant by Cynthia Hand +
29: Chasing Sunset by Sami Lee +
30: Wrong Bed, Right Guy by Katee Robert +

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