Last year, Dan gave me a Kindle and I must admit, if there is one electronic I use without fail every day, it’s the Kindle. I am obsessed. As a kid, I devoured books {mostly Nancy Drew…} at a rapid pace. Every weekend, my dad treated me to two new books and every week, by the following friday, I was chomping at the bit for more. Then, about two years ago I woke up and realized my attitude toward reading had relaxed; I was only lackadaisically reading a few books here and there until I fell asleep.
Well, the Kindle has totally changed that. My appetite for reading has been reinvigorated… In 2012, I read 14 books. I’ll admit, some of those books were part of some, ahem, well-known trilogies. Angry, tattoo-laden girls, teen adventure dramas, and sexual fantasies aside, I did read some ‘real’ literature, too. I plan to do the very same thing in 2013, but maybe with some more serious lit thrown in? Here’s my plan for 2013:
- re-read the entire Harry Potter series — at the urging of my Twitter buddy Mandy. I’m already under way and they are just as edible as the first time around!
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
- Sweet Tooth by Ian Mcewan
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway — gotta mix in some classics!
Have any other suggestions? As you can see, I don’t have nearly enough listed here to get me through 2013.
PS – I’ve also curated my favorite suggestions over on Luvocracy — check me out here!