.books i read in 2012.

I’m afraid I didn’t get as many books read in 2012 as I have in the past…perhaps Pinterest took up too much of my time?! ;)

• Middlesex
• Summerland
• The Future Homemakers of America
• Most Talkative
• Skinnydipping
• Becoming Sister Wives
• Flat-Out Love
• I Am Nujood, Age 10, and Divorced
• The Pioneer Woman: From Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
• Mockingjay
• Catching Fire
• The Hunger Games
• Eva's Story
• One For the Money
• The Pregnancy Project
• The Magic Room

.getting my life back.

Ha! You thought this was going to be about moving back into the craft room, right? Nope – not yet!

To distract my thoughts from not being able to be in the craft room, I started reading The Hunger Games. Go ahead and cheer and pump your fists, Amy!

I bought The Hunger Games back in the fall and tried reading it….to no avail. It didn’t interest me at all and I told my English teacher friends that I wasn’t going to give in to their obsession (same story with Harry Potter and Twilight!). This winter and during conferences it seemed that all the teachers at the high school were reading The Hunger Games – even the freshman and Special Ed classes were reading it!

The movie came out and I agreed to go with Karlye, Amber, and my Mom to see what the hype was all about. I liked it well enough – didn’t like the violence, but I liked the story.

So. I decided to give the book another try. I read it in 2 days. TWO days! I finished it on Thursday evening and downloaded Catching Fire that same night and started reading it. I could hardly keep my mind on work on Friday – I even read it during lunch! I finished it on Friday night, well Saturday morning. :)

I downloaded Mockingjay on Sunday and finished it today. That’s it. I’m hooked on The Hunger Games.

With things finally coming together downstairs, it’s perfect timing. Now I can actually go to sleep at a decent hour!

.what I read in 2011.

Here’s my annual list of what I read over the past year…not as much as in some years past…too much quilting or cheerleading or Real Housewives?!

The Midwife's Confession

Escape

Those Who Save Us

Then Came You

A Stolen Life

Summer and the City

Look Again

I'd Know You Anywhere

Black and Blue

Best Friends Forever

Wench

The Help

Still Missing

Shanghai Girls

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Something Borrowed

Sing You Home

The Glass Castle

Room: A Novel

Then Came You

{ books I read in 2010 }

AH! My annual list of the books I read in 2010! I like to look back on these and see the trends for the year.

These are in reverse chronological order (newest finished on top):

Half Broke Horses
The Walk
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Still Alice
Bound
Children of the Promise Series
Confessions of a Shop-a-Holic
Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap
The Girls From Ames
The Senator's Wife
Little Bee
Going Rogue
Pretty Little Liars
Every Last One
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Sweet Little Lies
The Castaways
House Rules
A Soft Place to Land
The Carrie Diaries
My Fair Lazy
Sarah's Key
Winter Garden
The Last Song
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
The Help
Peculiar Treasures
Schooled
Dear John
Knit Two
The 19th Wife
Nanny Returns

32 in total!

...sarah's key...

I read a great book this week. It's one of those that stays with you throughout the day.

It's a little hard to explain, so here's the description from amazon.com:

De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself.

I can't stop thinking about it. The stories from the Holocaust are so haunting. It's amazing what people went through.

There are some very difficult parts to read in this book - especially since you know that those things really happened to people. The story is amazing though - and trust me, you'll be hooked. Hope you have some free time because one you start, you won't be able to put it down!