So Ready for 2011

By: Meradeth Houston on 3:42 AM

Seriously, 2010 was one of those years that in retrospect I should have just slept through. Granted, there were a few good things, but overall it was pretty miserable. Car accidents, broken legs, way too many queries, the lack of a job for this year--let's just say that I'm looking forward to 2011 because it has to be better. Has to! I'm commanding it to be so :) Anyhow, I got through about 53 fiction books this past year, which is down some from previous years, but I won't include the many, many academic tomes I slogged through, or the academic papers either. It was a lot of reading. Anyhow, here's my list from last year:

The Duff

Sunday's at Tiffany's

Fever Crumb

Love Walked In

Mistwood

Personal Demons

The History of Love

Paranormalcy

Mistress of the Art of Death

Avalon High

13 Little Blue Envelopes

Need

The Lost Symbol

Torment

Give Up The Ghost

Spirit Bound

Betrayed

Marked

Rampant

Infinite Days

Mockingjay

Dark Life

Ink Exchange

Prada and Prejudice

The Thirteenth Tale

Pretty Little Devils

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Linger

The Hollow

Gone

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

White Cat

As You Wish

Specials

Going Bovine

Silver Phoenix

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl

Eighth Grade Bites

Ninth Grade Slays

Pretties

Wildwood Dancing

The Demon's Lexicon

Fallen

The Sweet Far Thing

Rebel Angels

Libyrinth

Watersmeet

Fade

My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters

A Curse Dark as Gold

Coffeehouse Angel

A Great and Terrible Beauty

 

Lots of good books, and many more to look forward to in 2011. My New Year's Resolutions for 2010 were fairly decent, too:

-Query at least 10 more agents for Travelers. (Completed--still have one full out and another with a publishing house...)

-Query (hopefully successfully) widely for Colors Like Memories. (One massive revision, many queries, and many fulls and partials still out in the world. Please, please, please let 2011 be the year I make this happen for this book. It is the best thing I've ever written and I love it. I honestly can't stand the thought of letting it gather dust-bunnies in a drawer.)

-Prep at least two academic papers. (I got one published, and another is very nearly complete, and I hope to get it in to a journal early this coming year!)

-Lose 20 pounds. Attend gym/run at least 4 days a week. (Well, I lost 10 pounds, still working on the other 10. I was very diligent about the gym though--maybe not 4 times a week every week, but close!)

-Read at least one academic paper a week. (Uhhh, I kind of did these in batches, but I think it evens out :)

-Start looking for jobs for Ryan and me. (Well, I did at least. Nothing has come of it. Grrr!)

-Finish and revise Polyandry. (Yeah, this story is now languishing in the eternal netherlands of my hard-drive, as I kinda got stuck...)

-Visit Japan! (Yeah, maybe this year. Really, I swear. We're going to do this!)

Okay, I have yet to put together my goals for this coming year, but I will soon. I really just want this year to be better. More productive. More positive. Is that too much to ask? Undoubtedly yes. But still, a girl can hope, right?