Top 10 YA SequeIs I can’t wait to read in 2012

I read SO much YA in 2011, (mostly dystopian) that there are many sequels to YA books I am clamouring to read in 2012!

1. Beautiful Creatures Book #4 by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

2. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

3. the to-be-titled third instalment in the MATCHED Trilogy by Ally Condie

4. Fever, sequel to Wither by Lauren DeStefano

5.Insurgent, sequel to Divergent by Veronica Roth

6. Pandemonium, sequel to Delirium by Lauren Oliver

7. Legend # 2 by Marie Lu

8. Once, book two in the Eve Trilogy by Anna Carey

9. A Million Suns by Beth Revis

10. Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2 by Laini Taylor ( I need to read the first one but I can still look forward to this!)

what YA sequels are you looking forward to reading in 2012?

Reading Challenge: A Year full of Dickens!

2012 is finally here and February 7 marks the two hundredth anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth. In honor of Dickens, I am proposing a reading challenge to read one Dickens work per month. A few of my close friends will be joining me (at their own pace, and not for the entire year) and I welcome you, reader, to do so as well. You can follow my challenge all year or just the months/works that interest you. The problem now lies in which of Dickens works to choose! I took a seminar in Dickens work in graduate school and it was one of my top three favorite seminars. We read: Bleak House, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and The Old Curiosity Shop. Bleak House is my absolute favorite and I’ve decided to start my Dickens challenge with it for the January Selection. Not surprisingly, A Christmas Carol will be December’s selection. I may have a poll to see what work we should read each month before the end of each month. I cannot wait to return to Victorian London!

Will you be reading Dickens this year? Which works? Happy Reading!

2012 Reading and Writing Resolutions

Happy New Year! I hope that all of you had a safe and Happy New Year and are enjoying the first day of 2012! Let’s hope the Mayans were wrong, shall we! My to-read list is too long to be interrupted by the end of the world! haha.

All joking aside, I’d like to share with you my reading and writing resolutions for 2012

Reading Resolutions:

I am not one to say I must read x number of books in a year. Job happens, extra job happens, life happens. Instead I will say I’d like to aim for 2-3 books finished per month.

I’d like to read more classics, and medieval literature. (more on these in a separate post).

I want to start a bookish club/discussion group with my friends.

I want to read  one classic work per month, hopefully not one I have already read.

I think those are enough resolutions for reading, let’s move on to those resolutions for writing.

Writing Resolutions:

I want to finish a first draft of at least one novel that I have been working on.

I want to plot out my book of poetry.

I need to plot out my memoir.

The novella I wrote when I was 12 needs to be typed up into my laptop (it only exists in hard copy form)

I want to research and write a draft of one article of literary criticism (instead of putting it off for another year!)

Now that I’ve shared with you my resolutions, what are some of yours?