December Was

I was looking back on the books I supposed to read from the December list and suddenly I found myself lamenting about how I’ll have to wait a whole year to get to the ones I didn’t even start. I decided to recap the month and after I made a list of what I did read I felt much, much better. I can honestly say all in all I am happy about what was and what wasn’t.
Here’s what I said I would read and what actually happened:

1. Bill Bryson’s African Diary by Bill Bryson – done.
2. Bellweather by Connie Willis – I read Miracle and Other Christmas Stories  instead. I don’t know…it just seemed more appropriate for December.
3. Fer-De-Lance by Rex Stout – done.
4. Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky – I never to this one because the library system was slow in loaning it.
5. Body is Water by Julie Schumacher– Done.
6. 24 Hours by Greg Iles – Done.
7. Last Supper by Charles McCarry- I simply ran out of December and never got to it.
8. Age of Grief by Jane Smiley – Done. 
9. Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien – Done.

And the Christmas books not included in the list that I got to read were:

• Polar Express by Chris Allsburg, and
• Little Porcupine’s Christmas by Joseph Slate, and
• Hilary Knight’s 12 Days of Christmas by Hilary Knight.

As an extra bonus I received a RandomHouseRead, Have You Found Her, and was able to squeeze that into the list during the last week of December.