It's the End of the Month As We Know It: December

Greetings everyone! I hope the holidays were wonderful for you and yours! As for things here, I had a very different, but very nice Christmas and New Year. Both were pretty low-key and I was able to enjoy time with my family. Book-wise, not much happened for me. I wasn't really in the mood to read a lot, so I didn't get too many books read. I'm definitely going to be playing catch up in January, that's for sure! Yikes. Hee hee. Let's recap, shall we?!

Reviews Done

Yeup, that's right. I didn't write a single review. Le sigh. Let's hope I'm better at this in 2014!

Events

All month long I participated in this week of looking back (and forward). I highlighted such things as favorite book boyfriends of 2013, favorite reads of 2013, 2014 must-reads and other topics. If you'd like to check them out, click on the banner above!

Giveaways
Best of 2013 Giveaway Hop
Surprise Mystery Giveaway

Thanks everyone for entering these two giveaways! Both ended, so it's time I officially announce the winners. Congratulations Tamara A. for winning a copy of Pawn by Aimee Carter in the Best of 2013 giveaway! Congrats also go to Tiffany D. for winning the box of mystery ARCs in my surprise giveaway! I think I fit like 10 of them in there or something. I'm so excited for the great turnout, you guys! I love doing giveaways, they're so much fun!

Read this month

Fireblood by Trisha Wolfe - An entertaining and exciting fantasy tale!
Lost and Found: Three by Shaun Tan - Amazing illustrations and three great tales!
Shattered (novella) by Jeri Smith-Ready - Oh my goodness, this is so good! Heartbreaking and beautiful.

I didn't read many books in December, but I really enjoyed those I did. Especially Shattered!

To read

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Some Random 2013 Stats

I thought it might be fun to share a few of my stats from 2013! Here goes nothing...
Books Finished: 52
Pages Read: 12,972
Longest Book Read: Blankets by Craig Thompson at 582 pages
Genre Most Read: Contemporary (Yay! I did it!)
Reviews Written): 13
Challenges completed: Goodreads (read 52 of 40) and the TBR Pile Challenge (read 15 of 10)