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[Adriana]

Just put here whatever you want to.

So what books did you guys love this year?

[Adriana]

Well I loved a LOT of books.


All of these are my 5 star ones. There also others the I absolutely loved that were 4 stars.

Planning to read 95 books this year 5 more than my "adjusted" goal of his year.
Hope everyone has a great New Year!

[Lynne]

I have to admire your goal of 95 books. Good luck! there are quite a few books on your list up there that I've got on my to read list ... hoping to be able to get to them this year :)
My absolute FAVORITE book this year for me was It's possibly my all time favorite book - ever. it's that good.

I've set my 2012 goal for a modest 36 books - 3 a month. I'm actually hoping to read more than that, but with work and all .. I wanted to be realistic in how much time I can find in a day LOL

[Adriana]

Is your favorite genre Historical Fiction?
36 is still good! A lot of people set a goal but don't read at all.
I probably should have done less this year actually since I go to college next year hopefully. But I'm sure I'll squeeze them in somewhere. And summer is a lot of time to read.

My absolute favorite was

[Lynne]

I kept seeing 'Before I Fall' on the giveaways and never really looked at it. I'll have to see if my library has it. I LOVE the cover though. I always wonder how the authors go about choosing the covers for their books.

yes, I probably read more Historical-Fiction than anything else. something about going back in time and seeing/reading different point-of-views from the real characters we've all heard or read about in history.
I also have a deep fascination with royalty (especially English royalty), so I like most anything with kings, queens, etc.

Fantasy and dystopian worlds are my other top favorite genres.

[Adriana]

That's a process I would love to know about.

I thought so with this book and the other book we were talking about on the currently reading section it sounded like that was a genre you really liked.

I also like fantasy and dystopian. What dystopian books have you read and liked?

[Lynne]

wow! 'Before I Fall' has gotten a LOT of great reviews.. I really will have to check it out.

I have an artist/photographer I'm facebook friends with/following and, so far, two of her underwater photos have turned up as front covers (haven't read either yet).



her name is Elena Kalis and her photos are amazing...so I'm not really surprised they're finding their way to book covers :)

[Adriana]

Oh wow! And those are the ones I see all the time.
I haven't read them either but have heard good things.

[Lynne]

One the Beach by Nevil Shute is one of my alltime faves. My mom read it when it was first publish (late 50's early 60's) and she loved it... and I read it the first time in the late 80's or so. such a good but sad book.

[Adriana]

That's why you like Historical Fiction then (:
It's hard to get my mom to read books I like. Only once has she liked one. I've only read part of one of her books but all she read is Nora Roberts...

I can only remember reading two historical fiction books.


I'm sure there are others but I don't remember. Kindred terrified me. One of the characters did I mean. I think I had nightmares.

[Lynne]

I got 'The Book Thief' for Christmas .. so I'll be reading that one soon.

I have such a vivid imagination on my own... I reeeally don't need to see scary movies or read scary books to make things worse LOL

yikes! the wind is super duper bad right now... so I think I'm about to power down and hide under the bed or something. Have a great night! ~waves~

[Adriana]

Oh sorry! I left you hanging. Hope you had a goodnight. My next book is actually Historical Fiction which is pretty funny (:
It's . It's supposed to be something with World War II. I think it's after the war.