Weekend Reads and Happy New Year!

.First, I'd like to say Happy New Year!  I think everyone should follow in the footsteps of a wonderful blog called Readerbuzz and make HAPPINESS their main goal of 2011!

This week, surprisingly, was filled with quite a few blog posts and reviews from me.  I say it's surprising because I didn't think I'd have much time to post anything.  Happily though, I was wrong!  I listed some of my favorite reads of 2010, which was really hard to do.  I really loved most of the books I read.  Then I posted a somewhat vague review of The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray.  It's the last in a trilogy and I didn't want to give too much away (thus the "vagueness").  I then did a post of books I received for Christmas.  I'm so excited for reading in 2011 because I've got some awesome looking books lined up!  And I ended the week with a quick little post about my love for The Anatomy of Ghosts, which I just finished and adore.  Review coming this week.

Now I don't like to do the whole "resolution" thing, but this year I would like to highlight some goals I'd like to accomplish in 2011.  For one, make this the year of happiness, as stated above. 

I would also like to incorporate more reading en francais ("in French" minus the accent on the "c" because my laptop doesn't do accent codes..).  This year I read a few books in French, but I hope to increase that by a lot this year.  I bought 5 books from a French book site, plus my sister brought me back a few from her study abroad trip.  I'm all set ;) 

And finally, I'd like to take more time to just read.  And read books I want to read.  I don't accept/ask for very many review books, but I'm afraid that if I don't start setting boundaries now, eventually it will get totally out of control and then I'll be reading books I'm not enjoying just so I can review them for publishers.  My goal for this year is to edit my review policy.  I'm not going to 100% for sure review every book I receive for review.  If I read the book, I'll review it.  If I find I just don't want to read the book, I won't.  I'm a picky reader and I don't want too many review books from publishers to mess that up ;)

Happy New Year to you all, and I wish you all a great 2011, full with lots of joy and happiness!  What are your goals for 2011?