Saturday, January 5, 2013

State of the Blog: Part One, the Lists


One of my blog New Year's resolutions is to abandon a couple of my routine posts and concentrate more on reviews. The biggest "tradition" I am going to give up are these State of the Blog posts.  I've used these quarterly blog assessment posts to keep track of the progress I've made on my various lists -- Prize Winners and Must Reads, Favorite Authors, and Challenges.  They have been useful for me because they make me update my lists, but they are not particularly interesting posts.


So I am going to do one final set of State of the Blog posts to wrap up my 2012 reading.  Then I will think of some other way to stay organized and keep my lists updated. 

This first part addresses the book lists. Part Two, coming soon, will take a look at the author lists.  Part Three will deal with the challenges I joined in 2012.

My book lists are over in the right-side column. These are divided between Prize Winners and Must Reads and include lists of books I have read or intend to read for some reason or another. Also in the right-side column are lists of my favorite authors. I add to these lists of lists from time to time.

I only listed a list below if I read a book from it in 2012.


NOTE: If you are working on any of these lists, please leave a comment here or on the post for the list (click on the title below or in the right-hand column) and leave a link to any related post. I will add the links on the list post. 

THE PRIZE WINNERS



Books read in 2012: A Case of Need by Micheal Crichton (as Jeffery Hudson)


Books read in 2012:  


Books read in 2012 (both for the 2012 Battle of the Prizes, British Version):



Books read in 2012: three (two for for the 2012 Battle of the Prizes, American Version):

Books read in 2012: two



Books read in 2012: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun


Books read in 2012: two, both for for the 2012 Battle of the Prizes, American Version

THE "MUST READS"


This list is from 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 by Anthony Burgess, which I reviewed here

Books read in 2012: The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, British Version, challenge).


Books read in 2012: four


Books read in 2012: Doctor Zhivagoby Boris Pasternak (reviewed here)



Books read in 2012: three

Books read in 2012: The Children of Men by P.D. James


    Books read in 2012: three
      Books read in 2012: Witness, Whittaker Chambers (reviewed here)


      Books read in 2012: two


      This is a new list that I just created in 2011. I made more progress in 2012 when I participated in the Venice in February Challenge.

      Books read in 2012: four

      Books read in 2012: one, The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (reviewed here)

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