Oh. Well. Hello there.
*clears throat awkwardly*
So...ten months. Ten months since the last post. That's a problem. And it's problem that I will address...but not just yet. Suffice it to say I'm sorry (for the very few people who actually know that this blog exists) and revamp efforts are going to happen very soon.
For right now, I realized that I have something to do, and a blog post was the best way to do it!
At the beginning of 2013, my sister Nicole came up with the awesome plan of keeping track of all the books she read throughout the year. Several friends were on board with the idea, so we made a small Facebook group to share what we were reading with each other. Now, amazingly, we're at the end of 2013, and it's time to look back at the adventures I had between the pages of (approximately) twenty-eight books!
Poetry and Play Books:
1. These Green Going to Yellow by Marvin Bell
2. Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It by Gail Carson Levine
3. A Tale of Two Cities: The Musical by Jill Santoriello
(These are all very short, so whether you count them as full books is up to you. I count them for their sheer awesomeness.)
Graphic Novels:
1. Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Non-fiction for School:
1. Physical Geology by Charles Plummer
3. Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds by Phillip E. Johnson
4. The Glory of Christ by R.C. Sproul
5. More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
6. Arts, Entertainment, and Christian Values by Kerby Anderson
7. The Limitations of Scientific Truth by Nigel Brush
8. Themes in Western Thought by Bob Jones University Press (an anthology of pieces from the works of major philosophers - definitely hefty enough to count by itself!)
Nonfiction for Fun:
1. Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit by Corey Olsen
2. Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint by Donald Spoto (technically reading this one at the moment, but as the majority of it will have been read in 2013, I'm counting it!)
Fiction:
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (reread)
2. A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine
3. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
4. Madman by Tracy Groot
5. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
6. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
7. The Odyssey by Homer
8. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (reread)
9. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (reread)
10. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allen Poe (collection of his short stories and his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket)
11. Alice in Wonderland by Tui T. Sutherland (a novelization of the Tim Burton movie)
12. Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera by Shannon Donnelly (an adapted-for-young-readers version of the classic that was extremely short and hardly counts, but I got it for a quarter at the library book sale, so I read it to get a taste of the original, which I hope to read in the future)
13. Queen of Camelot by Nancy McKenzie
14. Dracula by Bram Stoker
