Yearly Reading Wrap-up at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading year for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out January with about 1,055 unread books lying around the house and ended December with 1,055 books unread. All of the books that I acquired this year came from authors, Bookmooch, Paperback Swap, a Library Book Sale and friends. Quite a number of my books that I read this year left my house to go to new homes so that's something I guess. :)

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads
- Between Husbands and Friends: A Novel by Nancy Thayer
- A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
- The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope
- While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
- Silver Wedding by Maeve Binchy
- Homework: A Novel by Margot Livesey
- Fortune's Rocks: A Novel by Anita Shreve
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- Dark Debts by Karen Hall
- The Last Time They Met: A Novel by Anita Shreve
- Julian's House: A Novel by Judith Hawkes
- The Saving Graces: A Novel by Patricia Gaffney
- A Woman's Place by Barbara Delinsky
- A Friend of the Family: A Novel  by Lauren Grodstein
- A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
- A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal
- While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
- The Saints and Sinners of Okay County: A Novel by Dayna Dunbar
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

Changes to the TBR pile 

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Point Hollow: A Novel by Rio Youers
- Next, After Lucifer by Daniel Rhodes
- The Crooked Branch: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins
- A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
- Shutter Island: A Novel by Dennis Lehane
- The House of Lost Souls by F. G. Cottam
- When the Ghost Screams: True Stories of Victims Who Haunt by Leslie Rule
- Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
- Lisey's Story: A Novel by Stephen King
- Lying Awake: A Novel by Mark Salzman
- Becoming Jane Eyre: A Novel by Sheila Kohler
- When You Believe by Deborah Bedford
- Snow in April by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Knitting: A Novel by Anne Bartlett
- On the Street Where You Live: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark
- More Than You Know: A Novel by Beth Gutcheon
- Sweet Salt Air: A Novel by Barbara Delinsky
- Unholy Fire by Whitley Strieber
- Charming Billy: A Novel by Alice McDermott
-  The Castaways: A Novel  by Elin Hilderbrand
- The Language of Sisters: A Novel by Amy Hatvany
- Unsinkable: A Memoir by Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway
- The Return by Bentley Little
- Criminals: A Novel by Margot Livesey
- An Unexpected Family by Joan Mendlicott
- Capitol Murder: A Novel of Suspense by Phillip Margolin
- Cruel Winter by Anthony Izzo
- Dearest by Peter Loughran
- The House at Old Vine by Norah Lofts
- Overnight Float: A Mystery by Clare Munnings
- The Other Family: A Novel by Joanna Trollope
- The History Major: A Novella by Michael Phillip Cash
- A Scaly Tale by Kay Wilkins
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
- The Fever Tree: A Novel by Jennifer McVeigh
- Secret For a Nightingale by Victoria Holt
- A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block
- Come Walk With Me by Joan Mendlicott
- Vinegar Hill: A Novel by A. Manette Ansay

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! :)
- A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath by Jeanine Cummins
- The Outside Boy: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins
- The Killer Department by Robert Cullen
- Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
- A Gesture Life: A Novel by Chang-Rae Lee
- Indignation: A Novel by Philip Roth
- House by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti
- Endangered: Your Child in a Hostile World by Johann Christoph Arnold
- Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Lady Fiona Carnarvon
- The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist by Matt Baglio
- The Businessman: A Tale of Terror by Thomas M. Disch
- A Dog's Purpose: A Novel For Humans by W. Bruce Cameron
- The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory by Valentine Penrose
- While we Were Watching Downton Abbey: A Novel by Wendy Wax
- Eleanor: The Years Alone by Joseph P. Lash
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Absent Friends by S. J. Rozan
- The Dive From Clausen's Pier: A Novel by Ann Packer
- Henry and Clara: A Novel by Thomas Mallon
- I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir by Lee Grant
- Japan Took the J. A. P. Out of Me by Lisa F. Cook
- Keeping Faith: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
- Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
- Last to Know: A Novel by Elizabeth Adler
- Like Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury
- My Theodosia: A Novel by Anya Seton
- An Old Betrayal by Charles Finch
- One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix by Jane Kirkpatrick
- The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories by Michael Sims
- Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
- The Spire by Richard North Patterson
- Stone Angel by Carol O'Connell
- A Table by the Window: A Novel of Family Secrets and Heirloom Recipes by Hillary Manton Lodge
- The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer
- The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory
- Blind Date by Frances Fyfield
- Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Reference to the Myths, Religions, Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohs by Lorna Oakes and Lucia Gahlin
- Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Novel by Alison Weir
- Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir
- The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel by Alison Weir
- The Diabetes Heart Healthy Cookbook by The American Diabetes Association and The American Heart Association

- Engaged to Murder: The Shocking True Story of the Nation's Most Brutal Triple Murder by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel
- The Open Channel by Jill Morrow
- Collector's Series Sum-Doku Puzzles 6-pack: (Volumes 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13) by Dell Magazines

- Tongues by Sam Joyce
- Angel Cafe by Jill Morrow
- Storming the Magic Kingdom: Wall Street, the Raiders and the Battle For Disney by John Taylor

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))

- Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
- The Deceit by Paul Block
- Shutter Island: A Novel by Dennis Lehane
- A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block
- Telling Lies to Alice by Laura Wilson 

- Lisey's Story: A Novel by Stephen King 

- Exclusive: A Novel by Sandra Brown 

- Ladder of Years: A Novel by Anne Tyler
- Report to the Commissioner by James Mills
- Lying Awake: A Novel by Mark Salzman
- Dying Young by Marti Leimbach 
- Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
- The Race: A Novel by Richard North Patterson 
- Sins of the Fathers by Susan Howatch
- Seawitch by Alistair MacLean
- Snow in April by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak
- Timepiece by Richard Paul Evans
- The Entity by Frank De Felitta
- When You Believe by Deborah Bedford
- The Castaways: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand
- December 6th by Martin Cruz Smith
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 

- My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

- Keep Calm and Ask On: A No-Nonsense Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams by Michael Samuels
- The Titan by Fred Mustard Stewart
- Embrace the Serpent by Marilyn T. Quayle and Nancy T. Northcott
- Sweet Salt Air: A Novel by Barbara Delinsky
- Dark Debts by Karen Hall
- The Return by Bentley Little
- The Complete Diabetic Cookbook by Mary Jane Finsand
- Diabetes A to Z: What You Need to Know About Diabetes - Simply Put by The American Diabetes Association

- Julian's House: A Novel by Judith Hawkes
- Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier

- Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
- Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark
- Falling in Love With God: Reflections on Prayer by Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr. and Colleen Birchett, Ph.D.
- Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
- The Language of Sisters: A Novel by Amy Hatvany
- The Joshua Sequence by Frederick D. Huebner
- Country Kitchen Collection: Fruit Basket by House Regency
- A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal
- An Unexpected Family by Joan Mendlicott
- Saving Face and Other Stories by Norah Lofts
- Criminals: A Novel by Margot Livesey
- A Density of Souls: A Novel by Christopher Rice
- 8 Sandpiper Way by Debbie Macomber
- In Another Country by Susan Kenney
- Capitol Murder: A Novel of Suspense by Phillip Margolin
- Best Friends by Martha Moody
- Big Girl: A Novel by Danielle Steel
- Handsome Women by Judith Henry Wall
- Last Kiss by Luanne Rice
- A Good Woman by Danielle Steel
- Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller
- Dearest by Peter Loughran
- Friends and Lovers by Helen MacInnes
- Tongues by Sam Joyce
- Doctor Love by Gael Greene
- The Saints and Sinners of Okay County: A Novel by Dayna Dunbar
- Anne McKevitt's Style Solutions: 365 of the Freshest Looks, Smartest Tips and Best Advice For Your Home by Anne McKevitt
- A Scaly Tale by Kay Wilkins
- The History Major: A Novella by Michael Phillip Cash
- The Fever Tree: A Novel by Jennifer McVeigh
- A Ruling Passion: Volume 1 by Judith Michael
- One Day at a Time by Danielle Steel
- A Scaly Tale by Ripley's Believe it or Not!
- The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
- Blood Sugar by Jim DeFilippi
- A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
- The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
- Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
- Christian Clip Art by In Celebration Publishing
- Vinegar Hill: A Novel by A. Manette Ansay
- Alone Yet Not Alone: Based on the True Story of Barbara and Regina Leininger by Tracy Michele Leininger
- Texas! Sage by Sandra Brown

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading year for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 58
Pages Read: 19,033
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

So, there you go! The reading year that was 2016! I hope that you all had an equally good reading year; if not a little better. :) See you all next year! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight