God Made a Farmer

What I want for Christmas in 2012 (I know, I'm a little late)

1: anything Harry Potter related
2: Converse sneakers
3: Umm... Some books
4: some Duct Tape
Because I am eleven, I don't really have a long list. :-)

My 2013 New Year's Resolutions

The New Year will bring new stuff to do now that I am almost 12 years old, (the official date of my coronation is March 31) so these are my New Year's Resolutions:
1: To finish the Harry Potter series with pride
2: To read The Fellowship of the Ring
3: to actually remember to do my devo book every day
4: To 'get out and be active!' (that's actually what Mom tells me to do but it is Okay)
5: To try and be a good buisness partner to my collegue, Fred Weasley. (a.k.a. Katie White, my partner in crime)
 6: to track down and make Carly Rae Jepsen sorry for writing Call Me Maybe

2012 Books I Listened To

I can now listen to books at work by downloading from the Cobb Library. Looking back, it's been a pretty good audible year.

• My Favorite: Now and Forever tied with Animal Farm, with the tie going to Bradbury, in his honor.
• Unexpectedly Good: learning a bit about President Ford
• Didn't live up to expectations: Guns, Germs & Steel. It may not translate well to listening...

1. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
2. Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
3. Bloody Jack Adventure Series, Book 1 - L.A. Meyer
4. I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson
5. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
6. Write it When I'm Gone, Conversations with Gerald R. Ford - Thomas Defrank
7. Back to Work - Bill Clinton
8. Dark Wind - Tony Hillerman
9. Down Under - Bill Bryson
10. A Rage for Glory - James Tertius de Kay
11. Rumpole of the Bailey - John Mortimer
12. Known and Unknown - Donald Rumsfeld
13. Drive - Daniel Pink
14. The Great Bridge - David McCullough
15. Now and Forever - Ray Bradbury
16. Next - Michael Crichton
17. The ascent of money: a financial history of the world - Niall Ferguson
18. The Russian Revolution: from Tsarism to Bolshevism - Jon Smele
19. The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
20. Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
21. Area 51 - Annie Jacobsen
22. Animal Farm - George Orwell

2012 Books I Read

My 2012 reading list in reverse order...

I must admit that I've not yet finished Wanderings. It's a "cannot fall asleep tonight" special.

• Surprise of the Year: Ender's Game (read before I heard about the upcoming movie)
• Guilty Pleasure: Robert Parker's Jesse Stone series
• Disappointing: Myth of the Rational Market - the writing doesn't live up to the title; the author is more intent on making a point than sharing history, ending up doing neither terribly well.

1. Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
2. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
3. The Alchemyst - Michael Scott
4. Trouble in Paradise - Robert Parker
5. The Myth of the Rational Market - Justin Fox
6. Rutherford B. Hayes - Hans Trefousse
7. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
8. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
9. The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions - Mario Puzo
10. Che Guevara: In Search of Revolution - Calvin Miller
11. Omerta - Mario Puzo
12. Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
13. Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews
14. The Naked Gospel - Andrew Farley
15. The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
16. Night Passage - Robert Parker
17. Zachary Taylor - John Eisenhower
18. The Millionaire Next Door - Stanley & Danko