End of the Year Book Review 2013

I'm behind this year, having read only (or as my sister says only) 35 books this last year of 2013. I have a friend who's read 150 books, so I don't feel too accomplished. Still, considering that I've also started my full time job as a high school Spanish teacher, I figured I'd be a bit behind this year. My current average is 42 books a year. Hopefully I'll bring it up next year. Without further ado, here are the books (out of order from how I read them unfortunately) and the reviews:

The Knife of Never Letting Go

The Ask and the Answer

Monsters of Men

The Bitter Kingdom

The Silver Crown

For Darkness Shows The Stars

Persuasion

The View From Saturday

Airman

A Book of Luminous Things

Siege and Storm

The House of Hades

Speaker for the Dead
Ender's Game (And Movie Prediction)
Repair

The Positive Dog

The Rithmatist
The Alloy of Law

Kneeknock Rise
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The Far Side of Evil
Walk Two Moons
The Search for Delicious
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel:

     The Enchantress

     The Warlock

     The Necromancer

     The Sorceress (Seperate Review)
Incarceron

To See The Queen
Clockwork Princess
The Scorpio Races
Robin: Lady of Legend
The Mark of Athena
Moon Over Manifest
Elantris

And that's it. If I had to pick my favorites from the year I'd be hard pressed. Most were excellent reads, though some were more meaningful than others. If I had to pick, I'd probably pick the books that I've read multiple times anyway because I get more out of the book the second time through. The books from this year that are first time rereads are: The Scorpio Races and The Alloy of Law. The others that I've read 3+ times are Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Enchantress from the Stars, The Chaos Walking Trilogy and The Search for Delicious. 

Happy New Year to all! May you all read more this upcoming year than in the last! And maybe do some writing of your own too!

Sincerely,

Carey