2011 Reading Recap

2011 was a great year for reading, both personally and now that they are getting older, in reading with my kids.  I finished a few books started in 2010, made a dent in some of the Star Wars back catalog, and read at least a couple new authors - including (and finally) - Lewis Carrol, Shel Silverstein, and... Jules Verne!

In general I've always looked at my reading lists from two perspectives, Star Wars and Other.  It's usually always fiction, but now I think I'll need to add a third and fourth categories, and that's for books that I've read with my wife (as we've read together for the past few years), and with my children (and I don't mean little kids stuff - but legit chapter books).  That said, here's a break down of novels and graphic novels read in 2011 per my divisions of Solo Reading (Star Wars and Other), with my wife, and with my kids.

Solo reading - non-Star Wars

• 2010: Odyssey Two (unfinished from 2010)
• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
• Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters

Solo reading - Star Wars

• Allegiance
• Han Solo Trilogy #1: The Paradise Snare
• Han Solo Trilogy #2: The Hutt Gambit
• Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
• Fate of the Jedi #1: Outcast
• Fate of the Jedi #2: Omen
• Fate of the Jedi #3: Abyss

With my wife:

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2nd read-thru, unfinished from 2010)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Through the Looking-Glass
• Eragon

With both kids:

• Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
• Howliday Inn
• The Celery Stalks at Midnight
• Where the Sidewalk Ends
• A Light in the Attic
• Falling Up
• Runny Babbit - A Billy Sook
• Pippi Longstocking
• Journey to the Centre of the Earth (originally solo, eventually with son only)

There were also a few novels started that were unfinished that I plan on completing in 2012:

• Dark Forces #1: Soldier for the Empire (Solo Star Wars - thru Chapter 3)
• Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Solo Star Wars - thru "Nightlily")
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (with daughter - thru Chapter 15)
• The Hobbit (with wife and son - thru Chapter 2)

To summarize, that's 10 solo, 4 with my wife and 9 with the kids - 23 total!

Though ever changing, the current plan for 2012 is to finish the four books from 2011, as well as continue:

• Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi (Books 4-9)
• Star Wars: Dark Forces (Books 2-3)
• Percy Jackson (Books 3-5)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide Series (perhaps finally get thru Book 4?)
• The Inheritance Cycle (Books 2-4 w/wife)
• more Harry Potter (w/daughter)
• more of the Bunnicula series (w/kids)

Other than that, I'm gonna wing it and see what I come across that looks interesting.  I know I'd like to start the Darth Bane Trilogy for Star Wars, but for other stuff, it might be more Jules Verne. Or, it could be a new author I've never read (Terry Brooks, David Eddings), or I might even see what this Hunger Games thing is about (that my wife is shredding through).  

If I'm really bold, I might look at the Wheel of Time series, but then you might have an excuse to call me crazy...