January 2012 | Page 2 of 2 | The 3 R's: Reading, 'Riting, and Randomness

January 9, 2012 randomness

At the movies: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (official movie site) Mystery/Suspense, Action/Adventure (2011), rated PG-13 Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg Directed By: Brad Bird Written By: Josh Applebaum, André Nemec Synopsis, via RottenTomatoes.com: This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization’s name. No […]

January 8, 2012 reading

Sunday Salon: Kicking off 2012 by looking back at 2011

It’s usually both fun and challenging to come up with my annual Books of the Year list, and 2011 was no exception. It might have been easier if I’d read more books that weren’t very good, but that was not the case; the overall level of my reading last year was pretty high. Having said that, my year-end picks aren’t necessarily the books that I rated the very highest–they’re the ones that have stuck with […]

January 5, 2012 reading

2011 in Review, The Reading (part 2)–Books of the Year

Books of the Year Since I did rate so many of the books I read in 2011 at the higher end of the scale, it was especially challenging to choose the standouts. My “Books of the Year” selections are not strictly the highest-rated reads, however, although none received less than a 4/5 rating. They’re also the books that have stayed with me best, and have continued to come up in conversation. Since my nonfiction reads […]

January 4, 2012 'riting, randomness

2011 in Review: The ‘Riting and the Randomness

The books of 2011 got two posts this year, but everything else on the blog goes into this great big link-a-palooza. Let’s start with more numbers! (All stats via Google Analytics unless otherwise stated) But first, speaking of stats…in case you missed them, I posted 2011 book stats yesterday. The 2011 “Books of the Year” post will be up tomorrow! By The Numbers: 5 Stats Total visitors in 2011: 15,400 Unique visitors in 2011: 9,860 […]

January 3, 2012 reading

2011 in Review–The Reading (part 1): The Numbers, and The Also-Rans

By the Numbers Summing up my 2011 reading experiences starts with some bookkeeping in the number-crunching sense.Total books read: 54Fiction: 33 Adult: 30 YA/Children’s: 3 2010 was the first year in which I read enough YA to make note of it. I probably don’t need to separate it out for 2011, but the precedent is set now. Since YA books tend to be faster reads and they’re taking up more room in TBR Purgatory these […]

January 1, 2012 reading

Sunday Salon: Opening the Book on 2012!

Happy New Year, y’all! If that Mayan calendar is to be believed, we’ve got 355 days left before it all goes away, so I suppose we’d better get to it, hadn’t we? Whatever “it” is… I guess that opens up a big question: “If you knew you had only one year left to read, what books would you want to make sure you didn’t miss?” Personally, I don’t know which specific titles would be on […]

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