Usually I use my year of blogging to recap and remember what I did all year... not so much for 2015. If you consider my blogging life a reflection of my real life, all I did this past year was create a few sketchbook pages and rearrange new furniture! Not far off - the new house was a big part of our year - but there was some other stuff going on too.
Highlights:
When I look back on the year, I also like to look at what I was reading and see if I met my reading goals. For 2015, I wanted to work on reading books I already owned... instead, I bought a lot of new books and borrowed quite a few as well. Oh well! Eventually I will read everything in my library!
Books I read in 2015:
Highlights:
- buying our new home! (and lots of new furniture)
- asking for and receiving a promotion and raise
- weddings (Pat's cousin and sister) and babies (friends, co-workers and Pat's cousins)
- Shows:
- February: Mozart and Chopin (TSO)
- June: The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
- October: Beethoven Symphony 5 (TSO)
- December: The Arcs (concert)
- a day relaxing at the spa
- celebrating our one year anniversary with a fancy dinner out (and surprise diamond earrings)
When I look back on the year, I also like to look at what I was reading and see if I met my reading goals. For 2015, I wanted to work on reading books I already owned... instead, I bought a lot of new books and borrowed quite a few as well. Oh well! Eventually I will read everything in my library!
Books I read in 2015:
- Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Haruki Murakami - The Strange Library
- Jeanette Walls - The Silver Star
- Molly Peacock - Alphabétique
- Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist
- Arthur Nersesian - The Fuck-Up
- Emma Healey - Elizabeth is Missing
- Thomas King - The Back of the Turtle
- Jonas Jonasson - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
- Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Douglas Adams - Life, the Universe and Everything
- Douglas Adams - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
- Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless
- Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett - A House in the Sky
- Jonas Karlsson - The Room
- Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Keigo Higashino - Naoko
- Mark Z. Danielewski - The Familiar
- Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
- Jandy Nelson - I'll Give You the Sun
- Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City
- Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
- André Alexis - Fifteen Dogs
- Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- Neil Smith - Boo
- Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
- Alice Hoffman - The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Legend:
- Book club books
- Second time reading
- authors I've read before
- books I borrowed
Numbers:
- 31 new (to me)
- 2 re-read (both for book club)
- 7 for book club
- 6 authors I've read before
- 4 really weird books (2, 4, 10, 22)
- 5 borrowed books
- 5 non-fiction (16, 19, 23, 27, 30)
OK, I'll stop there! I've read some pretty great books this year and have big plans for 2016! I'm just finalizing my list of goals and I'll be posting those soon!
How was your 2015?
How was your 2015?
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