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Hope that people are having a nice holiday season. I'm over in AZ as usual, spending time with the family (Christmas with my dad's family, Hannukah with my husband's) and eating lots and reading a bit too.

I'm not sure I'm going to have much time this week to work on reviews, so this is a good week to join the Faves of TwentyEleven that inkcrush is ( Read more... )

First, the stats:

• 2006 - 103 books
• 2007 - 99 books
• 2008 - 77 books
• 2009 - 79 books
• 2010 - 82 books

I liked looking back last year at 2008 so this year I'm also looking back at 2009. I didn't make my goal of reading 100 books, but at 79 books I was above last year's number (77). Anyway, here's my Best of 2009 list, broken down in the same way I broke down books last year: The Books that Blew Me Away - This is a very small list, just three books ( Read more... )

A lot of people are posting a year end post for 2008. It's nice to see people looking back at the books they read for the year and picking out their favorite reads, and it's interesting to see what they picked. I thought it would be a good thing to try myself because with it recorded, I can look back in later years and see what my tastes were like.
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