Bests of 2012

I had a lot of amazing experiences this year. Since this blog is supposed to be a book blog, those will go first.

Books: 
   New to Me:

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Reamde by Neal Stephenson 
• Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg 
• The Violinist's Thumb by Sam Kean
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• More Baths Less Talking by Nick Hornby
• The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

   Graphic Novels:

• The Unwritten Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words
• Astonishing X-men Torn and Unstoppable
•  American Vampire Volume 3

   Re-Read:

• The Shining by Stephen King
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Movies:
I know I'm genre heavy, I'm a nerd :)

• The Avengers!
• Moonrise Kingdom
• The Dark Knight Rises
•  Cloud Atlas
• The Woman in Black
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Silver Linings Playbook

Life, not least important though it is coming last:  

• We got Married!  maybe i should have put this at the very top of the post,
• Having all our family and friends meet and get along so well!
• We bought a house!  I never got around to posting about it but Ben and I bought a house at the end of August.   
• Shakespeare in the Park did Much Ado About Nothing and it was wonderful
• Seeing Neil deGrasse Tyson speak at Vanderbilt
• Learning everything there is to know about competitive swimming while watching the Olympics with B.
• Finishing my 3rd semester of my Master's with some great classes.

So that's a bit of the highlights of my year.  I hope everyone had a good 2012 and has a wonderful New Year!  Be Safe!