Last Reads of 2012 Read-a-Thon: Wrap-up Post #LR2012

This is my Wrap-up Post for the Last Reads of 2012 Read-a-thon.

8 books completed
2 more books started but not finished

I exceeded my reading goals! I wanted to finish these two books:

Kiss of Surrender

(Deadly Angels, Book #2)

by Sandra Hill

[read]

MY REVIEW

Ashes of Twilight

(Ashes Trilogy, Book #1)
by Kassy Tayler

[listened]
MY REVIEW 


And I had hoped to start on these ones:

Undead

(Undead, Book #1)

by Kirsty McKay

[reading]

A Winter Dream

by Richard Paul Evans

[listened]

MY REVIEW

I actually finished Kiss of Surrender, Ashes of Twilight, and A Winter Dream. Instead of picking up Undead, I decided that I didn't get enough of Christmas yet and went with a Christmas cozy mystery:

Holiday Grind
(Coffeehouse Mysteries, Book #8)
by Cleo Coyle
[read]

And another audiobook:

Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
(Agatha Raisin, Book #2)
by M.C. Beaton
[listened]
MY REVIEW


Plus some novellas:

Blood Awakening
(Blood Burden, Book #0.5)
by Wenona Hulsey
[read]
MY REVIEW

The New Guy: Gathering Bonus Short by Kelley Armstrong (Darkness Rising, Book 1.1)

The Invitation: Gathering Bonus Short by Kelley Armstrong (Darkness Rising, Book 1.2)

I read this one to my kids:

Matchless: A Christmas Story

by Gregory Maguire

[read]

MY REVIEW

I started this audiobook but didn't finish it:

A Christmas Carol

(Christmas Books, Book #1)

by Charles Dickens

[listening]

In addition to writing reviews for each of the ones above that I finished, I also got caught up on a bunch more book reviews:

1. Blood Red Road by Moira Young (Dust Lands, Book 1)  
2. Thee, Hannah! by Marguerite de Angeli
3. William Wilberforce: God's Politician by John Holzmann
4. The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds  
5. The Winter at Valley Forge: Survival and Victory by James E. Knight(Adventures in Colonial America)
6. American Indian Prayer Guide by Danette Maloof
7. First Encyclopedia of Seas & Oceans by Ben Denne 
8. Mysteries & Marvels of Nature by Elizabeth Dalby
9. The Usborne Science Encyclopedia by Annabel Craig and Cliff Rosney
10. Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz  
11. And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz
12. What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? by Jean Fritz  
13. You Wouldn't Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party! by Peter Cook (You Wouldn't Want to... series) 
14. Water by Trevor Day (See for Yourself series)
15. The Story of the U.S.A., Book 1: Explorers and Settlers by Franklin Escher, Jr. 
16. Real Science-4-Kids: Biology, Level I by Dr. Rebecca W. Keller
17. Lyrical Life Science, Volume 1 by Doug C. Eldon

Total pages read: 646 pages

Total minutes listened: 20 hrs, 44 mins

Thanks again to Jen, Patrick, and Eileen for hosting!