God bless you and send you a happy new year

2011 is nearly over and 2012 is set to begin. Today is my oldest son's 15th birthday and he's off playing in a basketball scrimmage. My other boys are lounging around while I sit here and contemplate doing laundry and baking a cake. I was reviewing my Goodreads page and I am shocked to discover that I only read 51 books in 2011, which I find hard to believe. In 2010 I read over 80 books, and I think I read more than I tracked and rated in Goodreads but who knows? I think the best book I read in 2011 was (and I feel super pretentious writing this) Bleak House by Charles Dickens. It was a lovely and fascinating novel and I truly enjoyed reading it. The most fun I had reading was working through the Brother Cadfael mysteries, I have read 13 of the 21 books and I still get a kick out of them. I also read a lot of Shakespeare this year (for a class) and that was, if not fun, certainly entertaining. For 2012 I will try to do 2 things: 1- do a better job of recording what I read, 2- read at least 75 books. I already have 72 books waiting on my to-be-read shelf (including 13 for next semester). Wish me luck, thanks for reading, and happy new year!