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 200 unread books lying around the house and ended the year with 647 books unread. Even though I started actively tracking the books that I read in May 2009, all of the books that I acquired this year came from Paperback Swap and Library Book Sales, as well as several trips to our local library. I ended up with approximately 36 books read - I'm sure that I read more than that this year, but as I only started recording the books that I read in May, I couldn't tell you with any certainty what I read up until then. 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:

Re-reads:
- The Basement by Bari Wood
- A Place Called Saturday by Mary Astor
- Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
- The Legacy by Jere Cunningham

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Painting the Darkness by Robert Goddard
- The Haunting of Sara Lessingham by Margaret James
- Errands by Judith Guest
- Exorcist: The Beginning by Stephen Piziks
- Martha Stewart Just Desserts: The Unauthorized Biography by Jerry Oppenheimer
- The Lost Queen by Norah Lofts
- The Magic Cottage by James Herbert
- One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens
- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre Ward
- Firebird by Janice Graham
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- Call in the Night by Susan Howatch
- Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
- The House at Sunset by Norah Lofts
- Nickel Dreams: My Life by Tanya Tucker and Patsi Bale Cox
- Crown of Aloes by Norah Lofts
- The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
- The Woman Next Door by Barbara Delinsky
- The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
- A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal
- A Circle of Souls by Preetham Grandhi
- An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky
- Out of the Dark by Norah Lofts
- A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
- The Ice House by Nina Bawden
- To See a Fine Lady by Norah Lofts
- The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
- The Brittle Glass by Norah Lofts
- Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
- The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon
- Duma Key by Stephen King

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! :))
- Second Heaven by Judith Guest
- The Tarnished Eye by Judith Guest
- The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
- Duma Key by Stephen King
- The Great Fire by Monica Dickens
- The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour
- Dear Doctor Lily by Monica Dickens
- The Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon
-Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let the Doctor Get Away With Murder by James B. Stewart
- The Lady in the Tower by Jean Plaidy
- Three-Dimensional Needlepoint by Gale Litvak
- Complete Guide to Creative Needlepoint by Jo Bucher
- 120 Needlepoint Design Projects by Charles Barnes and David Blake
- Nature in Needlepoint by Eva Brent and Meg Merrill
- Ireland by Mark Morris and Anthony Cassidy
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
-Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
- The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
- Debbie: My Life by Debbie Reynolds and David Patrick Columbia
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- Give us This Day by R. F. Delderfield
- The Doctor's Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Deception and Two Gruesome Deaths by John Glatt
- House Sensation: Spirited and Stylish Home Decoration by Anne McKevitt
- Family Treason: The Walker Spy Case by Jack Kneece
- Claudia's Shadow by Charlotte Vale Allen
- My Beloved Son by Catherine Cookson
- Now You Know by Kitty Dukakis and Jane Scovell
- Crescent City by Belva Plain
- Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties by Sara Davidson
- The Case of Lucy Bender by Lawrence Sanders
- The Letters by Luanne Rice and Joseph Moninger
- While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
- Horror House by J. N. Williamson
- The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
- A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal
- An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky
- The Town House: The Building of the House by Norah Lofts
- The History Channel: History's Mysteries: Dead, Doomed and Buried by Jane Mason and Sarah Hines Stephens
- The History Channel Presents Haunted History: Ghostly Graveyards and Spooky Spots by Cameron Banks
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
- Sweet Everlasting by Patricia Gaffney
- Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
- The Truth About the Irish by Terry Eagleton
- Unsolved Mysteries...Stranger Than Fiction by Clifford L. Linedecker
- The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna VanLiere
- Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))
- Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal by Ann Rule
- Celtic Book of Seasonal Meditations: Celebrate the Traditions of the Ancient Celts by Claire Hamilton
- Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
- Hints and Tips to Make Life Easier by Reader's Digest Editors
- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- Spartina by John Casey
- Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen
-Ghosts: Washington's Most Famous Ghost Stories by John Alexander
-Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky
-The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
-Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
-Call in the Night by Susan Howatch
- Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre Ward
- Crown of Aloes by Norah Lofts
-Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
-The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley
- Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman
- The Painter's Composition Handbook by Jan Herring
- Your Naturally Healthy Home: Stylish, Safe Simple by Alan Berman
- Medieval Castles of Ireland by David Sweetman
- Encyclopedia of 312 Scroll Saw Designs by John La Forge
- The Godmother: The True Story of the Hunt For the Most Bloodthirsty Female Criminal in Our Time, Griselda Blanco by Richard Smitten
- Painting in Watercolor by Kate Gwynn
- Watercolour Painting: The Ron Ranson Technique by Ron Ranson
- Rockport's Colors For Living: Baths by Jennie L. Pugh and Sandra Ragan
- The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
- Anyone's Daughter: The Times and Trials of Patricia Hearst by Shana Alexander
- A Candle For St. Jude by Rumer Godden
- Plain Grief by Maxine Chernoff
- Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany by Peter Wyden
- Joy in the Morning: A Novel by Betty Smith
- Dreams of Other Days by Elaine Crowley
- Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Pilgrim's Progress: In Today's English by John Bunyan
- Slave Girls by Wensley Clarkson
- The Power of Darkness by Doris Sutcliffe Adams
- The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll

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

Books Read: 36
Pages Read: 21,663
Grade Range: A+! to C!

So, there you go! The reading year that was 2009! 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