It’s always weird to move on into the next year, to get used to writing the new number set, rather than the old. And the realization that time is going fast, and the number creeps up each more every year. 2018 seems so… far away, yet here it is. Crazy :)
And while we are in 2018 now, I am here to also wrap up, book-wise, the year of 2017. To give a last look-back and give a list of my favourite books of the year. Which is going to be hard, because I read a great many good ones!
According to Goodreads, I read 20,650 pages spread out over 82 books.
That’s a lot of pages. If you’d like to see the books I read in 2017, you can check out the wrap-up Goodreads gave HERE. I love how Goodreads does that. I keep a Book Notebook throughout the year, but it’s nice not having to type it all up! :)
Trying to narrow down my favourite books of the year has been nearly impossible. I read a LOT of good ones, you guys. And I love them all! But by shear force, I made a list of my top TWELVE favourite books. Why twelve instead of 10 or 5? Well first off, 5 is not nearly enough I’ve decided. And Ten is kinda hard to choose too. So I went with twelve because that makes a book a month, and that sounded reasonable to me. :D Sooooo, without further ado, in no particular order, here are my…
TOP TWELVE FICTION READS OF 2017:
Clicking on the title/author of the book will bring you to my review of the book :)
Destiny Defended by J.A. Marx
Bread of Angels by Tessa Afshar
Out of the Dark by MacKenzie Morganthal
Everything’s Coming Up Josey! By Susan May Warren
Guilt by Association by Heather Day Gilbert
Wings of the Wind by Connilyn Cossette
Rescue Me by Susan May Warren
Lady Jayne Disappears by Joanna Davidson Politano
A Name Unknown by Roseanna M. White
An Inconvenient Beauty by Kristi Ann Hunter
The Case of the Clobbered Cad by Debra Marvin
The Genesis Tree by Heather FitzGerald
NON FICTON:
Daring to Hope by Katie Davis
Infinite Tuesday by Michael Nesmith
And because I don’t want to leave the list at just these, I put together some…..
Honourable Mentions:
High as the Heavens by Kate Breslin
October by J. Grace Pennington
The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck by Bethany Turner
The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright
Dreams and Devotion by Sarah Holman
Priceless by brothers, Joel and Luke Smallbone
Life:
So besides reading, 2017 was a full year as most are. And I have no idea how to sum that up in a post, or even a paragraph…I live life, so it happens, but to sum it up… I don’t really have skill in that one. ^.^ Stuff happened, good and bad, I learned things, I probably met new people, wrote stuff….and I read. That’s good enough for a life segment wrap up, eh?
So, there’s that! How was your year? Do you have any particular, big or small, hopes/dreams/plans for this new year?
