I knew that January would be a laid back blogging month so I didn’t stress out about goals for the blog when the year started. As I read my way through my Google Reader I pulled books from my shelves that I saw on 2012 favorites lists and decided to make every attempt to read those this year. A 2013 reading list with 9 books. I think even I can manage that 🙂 I really hope to read more from my shelves this year, while at the same time buying fewer books.
I’m not sure what it says about the upcoming year that I am only now, on January 24th, coming up with a goal.
Stacy's Books 
Yes to The Girl Who Chased the Moon and The Violinist’s Thumb!!!! Those have been on my list from last year as well. Good luck. I’m just trying to finish some of the books I started last year 🙂
1 down 8 to go 🙂
Great stack of books!!! I have been doing the same thing and hope to read more from my own shelves too!! Say good bye to feeling bad about reading goals!!
I cannot feel gulty or overwhelmed by one more thing in my life so my blog is guilt free!
I can recommend Still Life; that’s the only one I’ve read! I say don’t stress about just now posting, though: I still haven’t. :p
I’m afraid to read another series, I don’t have time for the ones I already love!
I know, I know! And yet I keep starting new ones.
‘Samuel Lake’ was one of my favorites last year.
It was on a lot of lists!
I hope you love Samuel Lake and Backseat Saints as much as I did! I enjoyed The Girl Who Chased the Moon, but it did not make my favorite of the year list.
I’m looking forward to all of these books 🙂
I can enthusiastically recommend Backseat Saints and You Know When the Men Are Gone, both of them I listened to on audio. And, well, at least you HAVE goals. I have none. That is just the way my life is these days! Ha!
I kept my goals simple this year, right? 9 whole books, LOL!
Ah, Still Life, the first in one of my favorite series. And I really like the Uncommon Reader. It doesn’t hurt that it’s short. 🙂
I’m looking forward to The Uncommon Reader because it is so short 😉
Oh good – The Homecoming of Samuel Lake is in your stack! Enjoy!!!
That’s what everyone seems to think.
Samuel Lake, Backseat Saints and Eden Close were books I really liked; enjoyed Stacy.
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done!
I haven’t read any of those but have read good reviews on most. I see Greg Iles at the bottom, have only read one of his but really enjoyed it. 24 hours.
I think that is a great way to compile a reading list … and you can use your own shelves to do it!
Eden Close is my favorite Anita Shreve book. I read it when it was first published and was thrilled to discover a new author I enjoyed so much. But her last few have been only so-so. Violinist’s Thumb was a favorite of mine last year too.
I created a list for 2013 too but no telling if I will actually get to it. They are books that I definitely want to read but they’ve been waiting so long now I should probably dust them off before I open them!
I think I have that Umrigar book around here somewhere…. BEST to you! I’ve begun 2013 with a big bang – almost 9 books read for January already.
I hope you love The Homecoming of Samuel Lake as much as I did 🙂