{"id":1339,"date":"2012-01-05T18:54:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2012-01-05T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T20:01:02","slug":"2011-the-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2012\/01\/2011-the-year-in-review.html","title":{"rendered":"2011 : The Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/completed.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1373 alignleft\" title=\"2011 GoodReads Reading Challenge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/completed.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>2011 was the year of the ARC. I read more Advance Reviewer Copies than the previous years, so much so that I barely got to my own Reading List! I entered 2 Reading Challenges and got\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2011\/10\/my-first-sunday-salon-post.html\"> started on the Sunday Salon Posts<\/a>. I completed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/4327952-amodini?read_at=2011\">GoodReads 2011 Reading Challenge<\/a> (Goal of 15 books) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2011\/09\/r-eaders-i-mbibing-p-eril-reading-challenge.html\">Stainless Steel Droppings&#8217;s R.I.P. Challenge<\/a>. To round off a great year of reading, here are 5 of my favorite reads for 2011 (note that 4 out of the 5 are ARCs) :<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<a title=\"Q : A Novel by Evan Mandery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2011\/08\/book-review-q-a-novel.html\"><strong><em>Q : A Novel<\/em><\/strong> by Evan Mandery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<a title=\"Children of Paranoia by Trevor Shane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2011\/10\/book-review-children-of-paranoia.html\"><strong><em>Children of Paranoia<\/em><\/strong> by Trevor Shane<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0<a title=\"Heartstone by C.J.Sansom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2011\/03\/book-review-heartstone.html\"><em><strong>Heartstone<\/strong><\/em> by C.J.Sansom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0<a title=\"Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2011\/08\/book-review-calebs-crossing.html\"><em><strong>Caleb&#8217;s Crossing<\/strong><\/em> by Geraldine Brooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0<a title=\"The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2011\/09\/words-to-remember-the-saturday-big-tent-wedding-party.html\"><em><strong>The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party<\/strong><\/em> by Alexander McCall Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the fact that these five favorites are all from different genres &#8211; romance\/time-travel, dystopian sci-fi, historical mystery, literature and women&#8217;s lit\/mystery &#8211; in that order. It reminds me that even for a picky reader such as myself there is a whole world of fabulous books out there. Here&#8217;s to more wonderful books in 2012!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 was the year of the ARC. I read more Advance Reviewer Copies than the previous years, so much so that I barely got to my own Reading List! I entered 2 Reading Challenges and got\u00a0 started on the Sunday Salon Posts. I completed the GoodReads 2011 Reading Challenge (Goal of 15 books) and Stainless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,53,31,3,57,67,6,66,36,52,16,4,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-49","category-arc","category-blog","category-books","category-challenge","category-favorites","category-fun-stuff","category-lists","category-lovely-things","category-netgalley","category-of-me","category-review","category-sunday-salon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":3,"uagb_excerpt":"2011 was the year of the ARC. 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