But instead I will post the results of my 2009 book reading list.
I decided for fun (seriously! it's fun to me!) to keep a list of all the books I read in 2009. I wanted to make an effort to read more. In total, I read 66 books! I am very proud of this total because I also had quite a busy real life, teaching and whatnot. Vacation was a help, but I didn't read the whole time.
A breakdown of the reading results:
# of Adult books: 22 (32%)
# of Young Adult books: 29 (42%)
# of Graphic Novels: 18 (26%)
Within that:
# of Fiction books (all categories): 52
# of Non-Fiction books (all categories): 14
Top 5 Favorite Adult books read this year:
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Anne Barrows
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
4. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
* my judge of what was "favorite" was how often I told people about the book and/or forced the book on others
Top 5 Favorite YA books read this year:
1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
2. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
3. I Am The Messenger by Marcus Zusak
4. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
5. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
*Runners up that I desperately wish I could put on the list: Graceling. The Outsiders, The Chosen, Coraline, The Wanderer, The Wednesday Wars, and Ash.
Top 5 Favorite Graphic Novel books read this year:
1. The Elephant and PIggie books by Mo Willems :-)
2. Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
3. The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar, Nancy J. Peters, et al
4. Pedro and Me by Judd Winick
5. The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Russo
Books read broken down by month:
January: 3
February: 4
March: 5
April: 4
May: 6
June: 10
July: 14
August: 5
September: 1
October: 2
November: 4
December: 4
I think we all see the benefit of having a summer off. And where the school year stress began.
Sorry if this was terribly boring, but I really must stop this so I can go plan for this week.

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