BEST OF 2013

           

 

BEST BOOKS-ABOUT-BOOKS My Ideal Bookshelf One for the Books The Incident Report More Baths, Less Talking Practical Classics The Novel Cure

BETTER SCHOOLS BOOKS   Improbable Scholars Raising the Curve Real Talk for Real Teachers Smartest Kids in the World

 

BEST NONFICTION  Quiet Antifragile Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage Stitches Five Days at Memorial

           

 

BEST POST-APOCALYPTIC BOOKS  A Canticle for Leibowitz The Earth Abides Tomorrow When the War Began

           

 

BEST FICTION The Night of the Comet Eleanor & Park The Other Typist The Mouse-Proof Kitchen Picnic at Hanging Rock Someday, Someday, Maybe

           

       

BEST BOOKS ABOUT WRITING  Steal Like an Artist Why We Write The True Secret of Writing

BEST FRENCH-ISH BOOKS The Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas Lessons in French Blossoming in Provence French Twist Provence 1970 The Road to Burgundy

 

FOODIE BESTS Relish The Perfect Meal Food Rules The Whole Frommage

           

 

BEST BOOKS ABOUT PEOPLE (AND RABBITS) WHO RAN AWAY FROM HOME (OR OTHERWISE DISAPPEARED) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared There's No One I Love Like You The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

           

 

BEST KID BOOKS (EXCLUDING EASY READERS/EARLY CHAPTER BOOK CYBILS NOMINEES) The Peppermint Pig The Fire-Eaters Wonder The Vile Village Hitler's Daughter The Magic Pudding Hold Fast Sure Signs of Crazy Mr. Tiger Goes Wild What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World Mr. Majeika Between Shades of Gray Pi in the Sky The Boy Who Loved Math

                  

BOOKS ABOUT READING  Reading Magic Reading in the Wild Show Me a Story! Why Picture Books Matter

AND FINALLY... TA DA!... THE 12 BEST READS OF THE YEAR! Five Days at Memorial Eleanor & Park The Night of the Comet The Peppermint Pig Mr. Tiger Goes Wild The Smartest Kids in the World Reading in the Wild Antifragile My Ideal Bookshelf Wonder Earth Abides Relish

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It's the Last Monday of the Year! What Are You Reading?!

                 

 

 

What I Finished Last Week It's that time of year when I Almost-Read. What's Almost-Reading? you may ask. It's a game I play at the end of the year. I read and read and read a book, but I stop just before the last page. Silly, I know. But this way, on the first day of the year, I'll start out strong and finish three or four books.   Does anybody else do any Almost-Reading? I know, I know, it's wacky. So here's what I've Almost-Read last week: Paris Letters: One Woman's Journey from the Fast Lane to a Slow Stroll in Paris by Janice MacLeod How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel   The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard

What are you reading today?! Any recommendations for me for 2014?




It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.

2013 End-of-Year Book Survey

It's time for Jamie at The Perpetual Page Turner's 2013 End-of-Year Book Survey. Fill this out whenever you feel like it…whether that’s today or in January. Feel free to link up and share your End of Year Books Survey and visit others on the list! Note: The survey is for books you read throughout the year, no matter when they were published, and is not limited to just books that came out in 2013!! Anyone who links up by January 10th will be in the running to win a book of their choice that they saw on Jamie's list!    Winner will be chosen off the linky. 1. Best book you read in 2013? TA DA!... MY 12 BEST READS OF THE YEAR! Five Days at Memorial Eleanor & Park The Night of the Comet The Peppermint Pig Mr. Tiger Goes Wild The Smartest Kids in the World Reading in the Wild Antifragile My Ideal Bookshelf Wonder Earth Abides Relish   2. Book you were excited about & thought you were going to love more but didn’t? I had three disappointments this year: Americanah.  Transatlantic. Fangirl.  3. Most surprising (in a good way!) book of 2013?  Someday, Someday, Maybe.  4. Book you read in 2013 that you recommended to people most in 2013? Eleanor & Park.  5. Best series you discovered in 2013? Series of Unfortunate Events (Yes, I'm late to the game!)  6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2013?  Rainbow Rowell. 7. Best book that was out of your comfort zone? I stayed in my comfort zone this year. Maybe next year I'll venture out.  8. Most thrilling, unputdownable book in 2013? The Night of the Comet.  9. Book you read in 2013 that you are most likely to reread next year? My Ideal Bookshelf. 10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2013? 11. Most memorable character in 2013?  Eleanor. And Park.  12. Most beautifully written book read in 2013? Wonder. 13. Book that had the greatest impact on you in 2013?  Antifragile. Still thinking about this one.  14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2013 to finally read?  The Peppermint Pig.  15. Favorite passage/quote from a book you read in 2013? From Brene Brown's Daring Greatly: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”   Theodore Roosevelt 16. Shortest & longest book you read in 2013? Shortest:  Journey by Aaron Becker (wordless picture book). Longest:  East of Eden by John Steinbeck (640 pages).  17. Book that had a scene in it that had you reeling and dying to talk to someone about it? The Other Typist. 18. Favorite relationship from a book you read in 2013? Ahhh, Eleanor & Park, of course. 19. Favorite book you read in 2013 from an author you’ve read previously? Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. 20. Best book you read in 2013 that you read based SOLELY on a recommendation from somebody else? Eleanor & Park. 21. Genre you read the most from in 2013? Nonfiction. Subgenre: French-ish Books 22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2013? Mr. Majeika. Would love to have a magical teacher. 23. Best 2013 debut you read? The Mouse-Proof Kitchen. 24. Most vivid world/imagery in a book you read in 2013? Night of the Comet. 25. Book that was the most fun to read in 2013? The Peppermint Pig. 26. Book that made you cry in 2013? Eleanor & Park. 27. Book you read in 2013 that you overlooked when it first came out? The Vile Village in the Series of Unfortunate Events.   1. New favorite book blog you discovered in 2013?  I have many, many favorites. 2. Favorite review that you wrote in 2013?  Antifragile: Does It Count? 3. Best discussion you had on your blog? Edgy Picture Books. 4. Most thought-provoking review or discussion you read on somebody else’s blog? Book Journey's Retrieving My Readers. 5. Best event that you participated in (author signings, festivals, virtual events, memes, etc.)? Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon. 6. Best moment of book blogging/your book life in 2013? ALA in Chicago! 7. Most popular post this year on your blog (whether it be by comments or views)? Crazy, but it's Virtual Advent: Uff da! Norwegian Fattigmands! I pinned it on Pinterest and the hits keep coming. Crazy! 8. Post you wished got a little more love? Top Ten Books I Might Recommend to a Beginning Reader. 9. Best bookish discovery (book related sites, book stores, etc.)? The book, The Novel Cure. It's bibliotherapy. Fun. 10.  Did you complete any reading challenges or goals that you had set for yourself at the beginning of this year? Set no goals. Met no goals. 1. One book you didn't get to in 2013 but will be  your number one priority in 2014? Burial Rites. And Me Before You. 2. Book you are most anticipating for 2014 (non-debut)? A reread of Grapes of Wrath. 3. 2014 debut you are most anticipating? The new Rainbow Rowell.  4. Series ending you are most anticipating in 2014? Since I rarely read series.... 5. One thing you hope to accomplish in your reading/blogging In 2014? Be serendipitous. Tell me if you loved any of the books I loved this year! Give me a recommendation for something I NEED to get to! Link up!!