last post of the year

I did not meet my goal of 50 books this.  I read 48, so close!
I am excited about the new authors I discovered this year (Ann Patchett and David Levithan are my two new favorites).
For 2012 I have set up a schedule for posting, because I really want to keep this blog much more current than I did this year.  I am pretty sure that was one of my goals last year, too.  But Nate has been encouraging me to actually write, and I recently saw that 50 Cent has novel published and I thought: "if he can write a book, so can I". And Nate said this blog is a good practice spot.  He also suggested I write a blog as my book.  I don't know how I feel about that.
Anyway, 2011 was a fabulous year for us - and I am hoping the trend continues!  Happy new year :)