Getting Ready for 2013

Booktini took 2012 off from blogging, but we're ready to start up again in 2013!  We will be bringing you book reviews, organizing tips, product reviews and lots of fun stuff!  

We will be reading Home Front by Kristin Hannah for our first book of 2013.

We've also selected these books for 2013:

• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• Four of a Kind by Valerie Frankel
• The Shortest Way Home by Juliette Fay
• The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
• Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio
• Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
• Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• Isabel's Rhapsody by Laura Spinella

A few of these books are by authors who have participated in one of our book club meetings for a previous book they've written. I've provided links to their blogs so you can check them out.  We've also left a couple of slots open in 2013 for any "must reads" that suddenly come along!  Remember Gone Girl this year?  Yeah, those are the runaway hits we like to leave room for!  

Are you in a book club?  Do you pick all your books for the whole year or do you do it moth by month?  I think most of us in Booktini are "planners" and like to have a list for the year with some wiggle room.  Most of us will read other books as well, along with some audio books too.  I am currently listening to Pillars of the Earth right now by Ken Follet.  I love historical fiction and decided to listen to this after listening to his novel Fall of Giants, which is the 1st book of the Century Trilogy.  The 2nd book came out this year, Winter of the World and the reviews were so great that it sparked me to listen to the first novel.  I loved it and plan on listening to Winter of the World next.  Do you listen to audio books?  They make my commute to and from work much more enjoyable.