First post of the new year!! I just got back from the most pointless Lock-In ever. I got volunteered to be the merch girl for the band that was at the Lock-In this year. So from 10 until about 3:30 I sat at a merchandise table, selling T-shirts and then I just laid around the building bored out of my mind after I was relieved of my duties. So that's been my new year thus far.
And now for something from 2009. One of my goals this past year was to read 52 books. [That's an average of one per week.] Well, I made it, with extras too!! I read 55 books this year, which I feel is an accomplishment. I kept a list of them and here they are: [the asterisks to the side of the tite are my rating. Five being the highest, one the lowest.]
1. 1984 by George Orwell ****
2. The Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven ***
3. Angel by Cliff McNish **
4. Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz ****
5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ****
6. Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz ****
7. Revelations by Melissa de le Cruz ****
8. Gamer Girl by Mari Mancusi **
9. Evermore by Alyson Noel ***
10. The Fetch by Laura Whitcomb **
11. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ****
12. Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman ****
13. The Wind Dancer by Iris Johansen ***
14. In the Woods by Tana French *****
15. Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr *
16. Kissed by an Angel by Elizabeth Chandler ****
17. The Power of Love by Elizabeth Chandler ****
18. Soulmates by Elizabeth Chandler ****
19. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare *****
20. Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith ***
21. The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint ***
22. Mary, Mary by James Patterson ****
23. Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch **
24. Maximum Ride by James Patterson *****
25. School’s Out Forever by James Patterson *****
26. Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson *****
27. The Final Warning by James Patterson ****
28. Max by James Patterson *****
29. The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman ***
30. House of Many Ways by Dianna Wynne Jones ****
31. Castle in the Sky by Dianna Wynne Jones ***
32. Cross by James Patterson ****
33. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger *****
34. When the Wind Blows by James Patterson ***
35. Dream Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon ***
36. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ****
37. Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon *****
38. The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman ****
39. The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce ***
40. Devil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon ****
41. Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon ****
42. Blue Moon by Alysson Noel ****
43. Hawkes Harbor by S.E. Hinton *****
44. One Silent Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon ****
45. The Dream-Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon ****
46. The Lake House by James Patterson ****
47. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold ****
48. Lament by Maggie Stiefvater ****
49. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick ****
50. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray ***
51. Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow ***
52. City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau **
53. Kiss of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon ****
54. Dance with the Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon ****
55. Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon ****
So there were quite a few repeat authors, the most books-by-one author I read was nine and I had that for both Sherrilyn Kenyon and James Patterson. I don't know how much reading just for fun I'll get to do when I start college in the fall, I may, but I figure that I could at least read a ton this year. I'm going to try for 52 again next year. I'll report back in 2011 and tell you guys how I did. ;)
