Like the 2nd book, this one took a little longer to reach the stage of “can’t put it down,” and the 1st book was by far my favorite.  I was not crazy about the ending in this one, though at least part of it was expected and needed.  Can’t say more than that without spoiling.

I will say that if you need to take a break from heavy reading or non-fiction, this series is a fun, entertaining read all around.  I am looking forward to the movie The Hunger Games coming out in March.

Ok, so this one took me 50 or 60 pages to get fully engrossed…

One interesting note is when reading on a Kindle device/app, and you get to see the most highlighted sections…  I’m not finding a whole lot here that is quote worthy — in fact I don’t think I’ve highlighted one sentence in either book, yet the Kindle shows lots of stuff highlighted.

Wow, it’s been quite a while since I’ve not been able to put down a book, but this one captivated me from the 1st page…  Only to finish it and find out it is a trilogy!  (I’ve already got the next two books in the kindle app!)

And now I see a movie is coming out in March and the trailer looks pretty good.

I was pretty bad about my normal reading notebook posts this year, probably only posting about half of the books I’ve read.  For that, I apologize, but above you can see a book shelf of the year.  Life got pretty busy and it was difficult to find time to write about each book — even to get my own personal notes from each of these books in order.  A few of these I didn’t quite finish, and probably never will, such as “Good Calories Bad Calories” and “The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.”  Not that they are bad books, just that I reached a point where I had gotten all I wanted to out of them.

“Watership Down” and “The Hobbit” were re-reads, both classics, the latter read to my 6 year old son Reece.  He now wants to move on to the Lord of the Rings trilogy!  Of course there were several food/diet related books, as I continue to investigate my own digestion (which has been doing much much better, but is still not quite where I want it to be!)

If I were to make recommendations, “Unbroken,” Watership Down,” and “The Hobbit” are must reads in the fiction category.  “Steve Jobs” is an amazing biography of a pretty amazing man that influenced our technologies tremendously during his life.  “The Perfect Health Diet” is probably the closest to where I am in my diet right now, though I’d guesstimate I’m only 75-80% PHD compliant.  And finally, “Never Silent” is truly an amazing and eye-opening account of where and how the Anglican Church in America has come to be…

While the total number of books read is a bit lower, most of that is due to reading more articles on-line, but it was still a good year in reading for me.