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Favorite Graphic Novels:

When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson

Go With The Flow by Lily Williams

Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang

Favorite Middle Grade:

Starfish by Lisa Fipps

Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Restart by Gordon Korman

Wink by Rob Harrell

Favorite ReRead:

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Favorite Family Audio Book:

Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary

Favorite Chick Lit:

The Sight of You by Holly Miller

Best Thrillers:

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Favorite Contemporary Fiction:

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

Favorite Young Adult:

The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

Best Make-You-Think-What-You-Would-Do Book:

In An Instant by Suzanne Redfearn

Favorite Romances:

Rescue Me by Sarra Manning

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

Favorite Sci-Fi:

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

Best Classic I Finally Read:

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Favorite Book I Read to Jane:

All Four Stars by Tara Dairman

Favorite Book I Read to Isaac:

The Perfect Score by Rob Buyea

109 Total Books Read in 2021

Personal Audio Books: 36
Personal Books I Read to Myself: 53
Books I Read to Jane: 10
Books I Read to Isaac: 7
Audio Books we Listened to as a Family: 3

Favorite Children’s Books We Read:

Rules by Cynthia Lord

The Ghost’s Grave by Peg Kehret

Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar

Bob by Wendy Mass

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

Favorite Classic:

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Favorite Children’s Audiobooks:

Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor

The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier

See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng

Favorite Young Adult:

Nothing But the Truth by Avi

One of Us is Lying series by Karen M. McManus

Dairy Queen series by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot

Favorite Romance:

Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie

Victoria and the Rogue by Meg Cabot

No Judgments by Meg Cabot

Vision in White by Nora Roberts

Favorite Historical Fiction:

Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Favorite Contemporary Fiction:

Anxious People by Fredrick Backman

Favorite Sports Book:

Attucks! by Phillip Hoose

Favorite Quirky Book:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Favorite Re-Read:

These is My Words by Nancy E. Turner

In 2020, I listened to 32 audio books by myself, and 10 audio books with the kids. I read 9 books to Jane, 8 books to Isaac, and 84 books to myself.

Yearly total: 143 books read

Favorite Classics:

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

One I’ve Been Meaning to Read for Forever and so Glad I Did:

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Favorite Christmas Book:

A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg

Best Children’s Audio Books:

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret

Wedgie & Gizmo by Suzanne Selfors

So B. It by Sarah Weeks

Favorite Parenting Book:

The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman

Favorite Thriller:

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Favorite Romance:

The Boy is Back by Meg Cabot

Favorite Read-Alouds:

Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry

Wishtree by Katherine Applegate

Favorite Historical Fiction:

Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan

Favorite Book Club Book:

The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas

Favorite Biography:

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Favorite Sports Book:

Levels of the Game by John McPhee

Favorite Young Adult:

Planet Middle School by Nikki Grimes

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Favorite Mystery:

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

Favorite Young Hoosier Nominated Picture Books:

The Bad Seed by Jory John

Creepy Pair of Underwear by Aaron Reynolds

Overall last year,

Read to myself: 61 books
Listened to by myself: 23 books
Read to Isaac: 1 book
Read to Jane: 1 book
Read to Jane & Isaac: 13 books
Family Audio Books in the Car: 15 books
Total Books Read: 114 books

So I was going to be productive and do some blog entries tonight when Dan sent me a link to this site. I had mentioned how I would like a website to keep track of movie reviews and such like Goodreads for books. I signed up for goodreads earlier in the year and have LOVED reading my friends reviews and finding more and more good books to read. I love keeping track of the books I’m reading as well.

Anyway, so Dan thought Flixster might be the site to use for movies. And I’ve spent the last few hours rating and reviewing movies. So far my only friend is Dan, but I hope to get more. 🙂 Friend me if you use it already, or start using it so we can compare movies!

My username is khersam and Dan is jadn. Here are a few of our favorite movies that we’ve re-watched recently. If you haven’t seen them, you should!

Over the past few months I’ve read this whole series:

There are 10 books in total with a few mini novellas as well. I’m a little ashamed to admit how much I enjoyed it. The first 3 books were really good and then it started to drag a little in the middle books. But I just read the last 2 books almost all in one day.

Princess Mia (#9) and Forever Princess (#10) were both really good. The plot moved along quicker and things really started changing for Mia. The author, Meg Cabot, is really witty and made me laugh out loud several times.

And the main love interest, Michael Moscovitz, is a total stud. Honestly. He’s hot AND a genius. Will miss reading about him :).