What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

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2012 Soundtrack

Can I just say...I have great taste in music. ;)

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Scout

2012 Books

One of my New Year's resolutions this year (and basically the only one I actually did) was to read two books a month. There was one month where I only read one book, but overall I accomplished my goal of getting back into reading. Here are the books I read this year. The italicized ones are ones I've read before 2012 and the underlined ones are my favorites from the year (some of which have been added to my all time favorites).

1. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
2. That Was Then, This Is Now - S.E. Hinton 
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
4. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
5. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
6. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
7. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (x2) - Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
10. Tex - S.E. Hinton
11. Knight's Castle - Edward Eager
12. Look Me In The Eye - John Elder Robinson
13. The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Banks
14. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
15. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham 
16. The Journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath 
17. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 
18. Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie
19. Endless Night - Agatha Christie
20. Ordeal by Innocence - Agatha Christie
21. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
22. Flipped - Wendelin Van Draanen
23. The Giver - Lois Lowry
24. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
25. Tomorrow Will Be Better - Betty Smith
26. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
27. The Hollow - Agatha Christie
28. The Well and The Mine - Gin Phillips 
29. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
30. My Life in France - Julia Child
31. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
32. Culture Shock: France - Sally Adamson Taylor
33. The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
34. Nancy Drew, the Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene
35. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
36. Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
37. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
38. Pride and Prejudice (yes, again) - Jane Austen
39. So Long and Thanks For All the Fish - Douglas Adams
40. Fahrhenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
41. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
42. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
43. The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin)
44. Rumble Fish - S.E. Hinton
45. Flickering Pixels - Shane Hipps
46. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
47. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
48. The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie
49. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
50. Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
51. Theater Shoes - Noel Streatfeild 
52. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

I would recommend every book on this list, though some of them do have adult content. What was the best book you read this year?

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Scout

Playlist: Misc. Zooey

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My New Exercise Routine

I'm not one for exercise, but I think I might have found something that I'll be able to stick with.

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Scout