2014 Reviews

Each year, I set a New Year's Resolution to read a certain number of pages. It's a fun challenge, and one of the few Resolutions I continually work toward all year.

In 2010, I tried to defeat my 10,000 goal from 2009, and read 10,501 pages.
In 2011, my goal was 12,500. I exceeded my goal, having read 13,052.
In 2012, my goal was 15,000 pages. I read 19,804.
In 2013, my goal was 21,500 pages, but I only read 17,877 pages.

I know I'm capable of hitting 21,500 pages, so that is my goal for 2014. This year I'll do it! :)


January 2014: (1,064 pages)

Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson
Rating: 5/5          Pages: 392           Page Goal: 392/21,500
On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 406           Page Goal: 798/21,500
Melissa Explains it All by Melissa Joan Hart
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 266           Page Goal: 1,064/21,500

February 2014: (1,199 pages)
Private #1 Suspect by James Patterson
Rating: 2/5          Pages: 401           Page Goal: 1,465/21,500
Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 376           Page Goal: 1,841/21,500
Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 422           Page Goal: 2,263/21,500

March 2014:
A Watershed Year by Susan Schoenberger
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 369           Page Goal: 2,632/21,500
Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 369           Page Goal: 3,001/21,500
Trafficked by Sophie Hayes
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 323           Page Goal: 3,324/21,500
To the Nines by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 320           Page Goal: 3,644/21,500
The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 111           Page Goal: 3,755/21,500
NYPD Red by James Patterson
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 368           Page Goal: 4,123/21,500
Where'd You Go, Burnadette by Maria Semple
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 326           Page Goal: 4,449/21,500
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 348           Page Goal: 4,797/21,500
Undone by Karin Slaughter
Rating: 5/5          Pages: 558           Page Goal: 5,355/21,500
These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 322           Page Goal: 5,677/21,500

April 2014:
Tell me Lies by Jennifer Crusie
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 411           Page Goal: 6,088/21,500

May 2014:
Blind your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West
Rating: 5/5          Pages: 539           Page Goal: 6,627/21,500
I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 374           Page Goal: 7,001/21,500
150 Pounds by Kate Rockland
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 330           Page Goal: 7,331/21,500
Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
Rating: 5/5          Pages: 207           Page Goal: 7,538/21,500
Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 319           Page Goal: 7,857/21,500

June 2014:
Come Back by Mia and Claire Fontaine
Rating: 5/5          Pages: 311           Page Goal: 8,168/21,500
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 243           Page Goal: 8,411/21,500
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Rating: 5/5          Pages: 479           Page Goal: 8,890/21,500
Size 12 and Ready to Rock by Meg Cabot
Rating: 2/5          Pages: 361           Page Goal: 9,251/21,500
Beautiful by Amy Reed
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 232           Page Goal: 9,483/21,500
Private Berlin by James Patterson
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 431           Page Goal: 9,914/21,500
Little Lies by Heather Gudenkauf
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 45           Page Goal: 9,959/21,500
Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 304           Page Goal: 10,263/21,500
Choose Yourself by James Altucher
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 276           Page Goal: 10,539/21,500

July 2014:
The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 222           Page Goal: 10,761/21,500
Monday Morning Choices by David Cottrell
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 186           Page Goal: 10,947/21,500
Sharp by David Fitzpatrick
Rating: 2/5          Pages: 350           Page Goal: 11,297/21,500
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 322           Page Goal: 11,895/21,500

August 2014:
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Rating: 3/5          Pages: 276           Page Goal: 11,895/21,500
Unlucky 13 by James Patterson
Rating: 4/5          Pages: 384           Page Goal: 12,279/21,500
Deadline by Sandra Brown
Rating: 5/5          Pages: 410           Page Goal: 12,689/21,500