Last post of 2011

I'll start off this last post with the books I've read in December, along with my year-long totals...

DECEMBER 2011

1. A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin

Read in: 19 days

Pages: 959

2. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley

Read in: 1 day

Pages: 162

3. The Thing About Cassandra by Neil Gaiman

Read in: 1 day

Pages: 12

4. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World by Bryan Lee O’Malley

Read in: 2 days

Pages: 200

5. The Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick

Read in: 9 days

Pages: 473

6. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 1 by Naoko Takeuchi

Read in: 2 days

Pages: 240

7. The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston (I highly recommend this!)

Read in: 2 days

Pages: 233

8. Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison

Read in: 6 days

Pages: 311

9. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 2 by Naoko Takeuchi

Read in: 1 day

Pages: 244

10. Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O’Malley

Read in: 1 day

Pages: 192

11. Codename Sailor V Vol. 1 by Naoko Takeuchi

Read in: 1 day

Pages: 276

12. Codename Sailor V Vol. 2 by Naoko Takeuchi

Read in: 1 day

Pages: 291

Total Books Completed: 12

Total Pages Read: 3,593

Average Pages Per Day: 116
Average Days To Read A Book: 3.8

I got a bit more reading done this month than normal, since it doesn't take long for me to fly through the mangas/comics. They add to my page count without taking up too many days! I'll be starting off 2012 with an  advanced readers copy of The Good American by Alex George (courtesy of LibraryThing).

2011 YEAR END TOTALS

Total Books Read: 105 (my goal was to read 100, so I just made it!)

Total Pages Read: 37,024

Average Books Per Month: 8.8

Average Pages Per Month: 3,085

Average Pages Per Day: 101

Most Books Read In: March (16)

Most Pages Read In: March (6,077)

I'm very happy with how many books I've read this year! If I was better with Excel, I could probably have a cool spreadsheet done up (eventually I'll take a class on Excel) and maybe some fun pie charts. But for now, it's cool just to see the numbers. I've still got 287 books in my 'To Read' category on LibraryThing (and those are just books I currently own!), so hopefully I can do even more reading in the new year! (After all, it may well be our last year in existence! *eyeroll*)

I don't really have much to say about this year. I'm not motivated to do a big "year in review" type deal. Overall, it was a decent year though. I turned 23 (I am constantly forgetting my age x_x), I moved out of Mum's house and into an apartment with my wonderful boyfriend, I took some pictures of flowers that I'm rather proud of, I graduated college with a Bachelor's Degree (and I'm now continuing my education online to fill in all the gaps that my four years of classes failed to fill), I got our wonderful little kitty, Artemis, I bought a new car, I had a wonderful visit from Melissa for a week, and uh....I....bought a lot of books and another bookcase to put them on! :]

My hopes for this new year are the same as always....write more, work on my graphic--and now web--design, get a job in my field (no more retail!!!), eat right, and exercise. 

For now, I'm going to start getting ready for tonight--Tim and I are going out with a few friends to a hibachi/steak house for some good food, Asian drinks, and hopefully some dancing if I'm lucky! (Hey, it counts as exercise, right???)

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! HERE'S TO A GREAT YEAR!!!