2010 reads overview

I had a great year last year with my reading. I don't think there was one item that I didn't enjoy reading. Yes, some took longer than others to get through, but that is more about me than the books, I believe.

It's difficult to say which were my favourite books. Different styles and voices and I love variation.

Still Highlights were:

* reading debut books by writing buddies

  

 

* reading more graphic novels (comics), including starting the legendary series, The Sandman by Neil Gaimain. I also had a X-Men kick, starting with Joss Whedon's contribution to the series. And I loved seeing  The Dark Hunters and Twilight in graphic form. As well as the crew from Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity.

*Being introduced to the fabulous world of writer and artist Shaun Tan, and managed to get a book signing at WorldCon. I thoroughly enjoyed The Lost Thing and read it for the first time to my godson.

* Starting a number of book series.

  

 

* listening to an audio book

* finishing off the Riley Jensen Guardian series by Keri Arthur

* reading Xinran's Miss Chopsticks. A fascinating look at Chinese culture through the eyes of three sisters from the country. I read this because I needed the letter X for an A-Z author challenge. A very different style but fascinating.

* funniest book - Dogs & Goddesses. Loved this collaboration.

* the most emotionally charged book - One Small Miracle. 

* favourites in series already started

 

 

What a year. I'm hoping 2011 will another great one and so far it has been.

Happy Reading!!

2010 Final tally.....

The final list is on the 2010 Challenges page and you can see the total list of what I read in the Books Read page, which is a visual representation of 2009 and 2010.

I almost made it for so many of them. As Maxwell Smart would say 'Missed it by that much'.

• Support Your Library Challenge - 48 out of 50 books for the Just My Size challenge.
• 100+ Challenge - 93 out of 100.
• Speculative Fiction challenge - 29  out of 24. Yep. reached target.
• Harlequin challenges: Total books: 62

Count down - 50 out of 55 read;

A-Z Author - 23 out of 26, with 3 more in mid-read;

A-Z Title - 25 out of 26 with the final book in mid listen;

Mini-Challenge - 24 books in series - reached and read 39 all up.

I had fun indeed but I did notice that the last few weeks I've pressured myself to finish the targets. In one way it was good timing because I read when I rest and I've needed to rest abit more now, but maybe it was too much. How can one read too much, I hear you ask?

I know what an awful thought. No, it's that I just needed to rest by not reading. To let the CFS fatigued brain have a breather. So I will not be stressing about the number of books this year as I have in the last month.

But as you all know, my TBR pile is getting worse than better, so I'm trying to at least go through it. This is why I will not be undertaking the library challenge as such (though looking at the amount of books I have borrowed from the library, it will probably end up as a separate list anyway *wink*).

Thanks to the library, I have been introduced to many new authors (well new authors to me) and hence I will continue to borrow but not aim for a figure. I shall report at the end of the year how much ended up being borrowed though.

Happy reading and good luck with your To Be Read piles.

Let the reading commence!! or should I say continue?? :)