Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Tinas Favorite Things in 2012~ Books, Movies and TV


Happy New Years!!! 

Im so excited that 2013 is here, the books coming out are going to be fabulous. 2012 had a great year in books and my personal reading blew me away, and not by quantity but the overall quality of great reads. I read 92 books this year, much lower than my goal but the one thing 2012 has taught me is less is better.....and speaking of better, contemporary romance seemed to be the best of the best last year, especially for the Indie author, talk about an explosion of untapped talent. Despite the scandals, gossip and every YA book becoming a movie lately, all in all it was a fun blogging year. 

Here are my favorites in 2012.

The Books

YA

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda
Everyday by David Levithan
Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
Ashfall by Mike Mullin
Temptation by Karen Ann Hopkins
Tempest by Julie Cross
Everneath by Brodi Ashton
Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

New Adult
Easy by Tammara Webber
Slammed and Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
One Pink Line by Dina Silver
Reason to Breathe by Rebecca Donovan
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay-(avail on Kindle)
** being released in June 2013 for Paperback**


Adult

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Defending Jacob William Landay
Back to You by Priscilla Glenn
The Taker by Alma Katsu
Take This Regret by A.L Jackson
On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio
My Stubborn Heart by Becky Wade
Before I go to Sleep by S.J Watson
On Dublin Street by Samantha Young



TV

The Walking Dead
Sons of Anarchy
How I Met Your Mother
Revenge
The Vampire Diaries

Movies 

Pitch Perfect
The Hunger Games
The Vow
The Words
Breaking Dawn 2
Les Miserables
The Odd Life of Timothy Green

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Posted by Tina~ at 11:58 AM

17 comments:

  1. Juju at Tales of Whimsy.comJanuary 1, 2013 at 12:04 PM

    Oooooooooooooooooooooo that reminds me I still need to see Timothy Green :)

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    1. It was so cute...a little sad but I loved it.

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  • OH MY GOSH. Were you expecting Pitch Perfect to be rubbish? Because I went into my cinema thinking it was going to be awful and came out thinking it was acamazing. That joke is so dumb.
    The Fault in Our Stars was definitely a stand out read for me in 2012.

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    1. lol- I thought it would be cheesy but I LOVED it...:)

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  • The Fault in Our Stars is definitely the 2012 book for me. The movies you listed here are all so incredible too, it's amazing. Your choices are really great.

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    1. Yeah, I bawled my eyes out and laughed hysterically reading TFIOS...I cant even bring myself to review it....;)

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  • PITCH PERFECT! I just watched that again this past weekend when my parents were in town - I knew my mom would love it as much as I did. So good:) Everneath is definitely on my list of favorites for the year, along with Easy. I need to read some Colleen Hoover, I'm seeing reviews of her books everywhere and they're all glowing which is a good sign. I love the New Adult genre so much *sigh* :)

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    1. YES....read Slammed!!! It was so good....so was Sea of Tranquility, all of the NA's are really great right now. And Pitch Perfect was one of those that I thought would be silly but wound up being my favorite....:)

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  • Awesome year!!! You definitely got to see a lot more movies than I did! Great list of books! Several of them are on my TBR list! :)

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    1. It was a fun year especially since the summer when I stopped the review books, it gave me a chance to really read all my back lists..:)

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    2. Yes, getting books to review is fun, but it's easy to get overwhelmed and reading becomes more of a chore. Great reminder! :)

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