As 2012 slowly slips away, I've been looking back at my year here at BBB.  It's been a good one and I thank all of you for that.  I appreciate all the comments, recommendations, laughs and love you've given me over the last 12 months.  You are the reason I enjoy blogging so much.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Oddly enough, this has not been a stellar year for me numbers-wise, even though I feel like I've spent every spare moment of 2012 reading.  Although I vowed to conquer 200 books this year, I only managed to read 157.  That's 29 less than last year!  I know.  It's weird.  I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what happened and I think I've figured out the problem—my Kindle Fire.  Yes, it has helped me finish books, but it's also hindered me.  Why?  In a word, apps.  I'm totally addicted to Words With Friends, Scramble With Friends, DropWords, etc.  They're very distracting.  Oh well.  They're fun and I'm not giving them up.  So there.

Here's how my 2012 reading broke down:

I read 157 books.  Of those:

• 147 (94%) were fiction; 10 (6%) were non-fiction
• 76 (49%) were adult books; 62 (39%) were YA; and 19 (12%) were middle grade
• 89 (57%) were review books; 38 (24%) were borrowed from the library; 17 (12%) came from my own bookshelves; 11 (7%) were sent to me for contest judging; and 2 (1%) were manuscripts I read for friends
• 34 (22%) were e-books; 1 was an audiobook
• 111 (71%) were written by females; 39 (25%) by males; and 6 (4%) by teams of both females and males
• 49 (31%) were written by LDS authors