Here’s to looking forward to a great  year!  First up on the Kindle/iPad  is The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander – I’m about 1/3 done and so far it’s quite good.    And I’m listening to Michael Lewis’ Boomerang:  Travels in the New Third World.

Other books to be read soon are listed on the “Upcoming” page – see top menu.   I seem to have some open reading time so I want to hit the tbr shelf for about one book a month.  Other than that I really have no particular resolutions/  Well,  maybe one –  to not read books I don’t think I’ll enjoy just because a group has picked them,  but I’ve been doing that anyway.  Picking my own books is a bit harder but  …   the Lewis book (above) is a self-pick.

I’m looking for a way to keep track of my 2012 reads – the stats on this blog are for the whole blog,  2011 – ?.  I started to set up a new blog for 2012 but what’s the point of that other than to restart the stats?   It’s kind of nice to have this cumulation through the years, too.    I may resort to a Numbers (Mac) spreadsheet for the 2012 stats,  but maybe a Google one would do.