2012

Although I’ll never top my numbers from 2011, here’s to a solid try.

This is what I’ve read in 2012:

1. A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray (2 stars)
2. Forever, Maggie Shiefvater (2 stars)
3. Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me? (And Other Concerns), by Mindy Kaling (2.5 stars) Read my review
4. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (2 stars) Read my review
5. Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson (2 stars) Read my review
6. An American Plague, by Jim Murphy (1.5 stars) Read my review
7. Ghostbread, by Sonja Livingston (2 stars) Read my review
8. Jim Thorpe: Original All-American, by Joseph Bruchac (1.5 stars)
9. Rat Island, by William Stolzenburg (1.5 stars)
10. To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel, by Siena Cherson Siegel and Mark Siegel (2 stars)
11. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge,  by Josh Neufeld (2 stars)
12. Carver: A Life in Poems, by Marilyn Nelson (1.5 stars)
13. The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg (and others) (2 stars) Read my Review
14. The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green (3 stars)
15. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz (2 stars)
16. The Amber Spyglass, His Dark Materials Book 3, by Philip Pullman (2 stars)
17. Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work and Play, by Doug Lipman (1 star)
18. Article 5, by Kristen Simmons (2 stars) Read my Review
19. Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai (2.5 stars) Read my Review
20. Pandemonium, by Lauren Oliver (2 stars)
21. Coraline, by Neil Gaiman (1 star) Read my Review
22. Getting Started with English Language Learners, by Judie Haynes (1.5 stars)
23. The Ligntning Thief, by Rick Riordan (1.5 stars)
24. Crow, by Barbara Wright (2 stars) Read my Review
25. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs (2 stars)
26. Glory Be, by Augusta Scattergood (1 star) Read my Review
27. Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, by Rosalyn Schanzer (1 star)
28. The Penderwicks, by Jeanne Birdsall (1.5 stars)
29. Chopsticks, by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral (2 stars)
30. Time Snatchers, by Richard Ungar (1.5 stars) Read my Review
31. Insurgent, by Veronica Roth (2.5 stars)
32. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews (2.5 stars)