December 2013, The Wrap-Up (Between the Covers)

I still have my 2013 Year End post to write, so I’m going to make this one quick. December was fine…except we got a bazillion inches of snow and I had to shovel four times in two days at one point. Thankfully the snow has now melted and I can see the ground again. I did get my Green Christmas.

Speaking of which, Christmas was nice. My parents came to visit a couple of days later and we had a nice time. On the bookish front, my mom got me THIS:

…and it is FANTASTIC. It’s called The Book Seat, and I love it. I read about them on someone’s blog, but I can’t remember whose. Thank you to whoever blogged about them and brought them to my attention!

Okay. December stats:

Books finished: 11
YTD: 204

Hours listened: 25 hrs, 6 mins

It, Stephen King
Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein (audiobook)
Murder of a Stacked Librarian, Denise Swanson
The Eyes of the Dragon, Stephen King
Winter Solstice, Rosamunde Pilcher
World War Z, Max Brooks
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Once We Were Brothers, Ronald H. Balson
We Are Water, Wally Lamb (audiobook)
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
This House is Haunted, John Boyne

My favorites in December were Code Name Verity, The Eyes of the Dragon, and The Goldfinch. Rereading It was a good experience–it was still disturbing, but the friendship angle really struck me this time and I really enjoyed that part of it. The ending made me very sad, and the whole thing made me wish I’d had friendships like that when I was younger. As far as We Are Water is concerned, I love Wally Lamb’s books but this one was a bit of a disappointment. It was good, but it wasn’t great–I don’t feel like it was up to Lamb’s usual standards.

Pages read: 3,788
YTD: 68,938 (so close to an even 69,000!)

Pages read in December, by day

Currently reading:

Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews (#SlutsInTheAttic)
Misery, Stephen King (Read All the SK)

And that’s all she wrote. Hope you all had a great December!

December 2013, The Wrap-Up

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