Happy New Year everyone! 2014!!! AWESOME!!!
This is the first book of the year post and I have to say how excited I was to see that over 80 other book lovers signed on to either write a post about their first book of the year, send a picture of the first book they will be reading, or both! As pictures came in from all over the world I loved seeing the first book choices! The enthusiasm of readers in contagious!
The following are the pictures sent in from bloggers and book lovers you may very well know. Later when I get home from that first run of the year (WOO WOO!) I will add the blog names below, unfortunately I just ran out of time this morning after hanging out with friends last night and getting home after midnight. 😉
In the meantime, check their posts out by seeing who linked up their First Book Of The Year post – and if it was you who wrote one, please add yours to the linky below the pics where it says click here. When I get home I will be happy to check out your posts!
*Please note, if I missed your picture let me know – the collages auto fill and I hope everyone was captured. I know I had one picture sent to me I could not open so if a few more trickle in today I will add then later. 😀
Thanks everyone for participating and LOVE the book choices. You can now (if you can find me in the collage 😉 ) see that I am starting the year with V C Andrews, Flowers In The Attic. I read this as probably a “tween”. It was a great read then, and now it has been re-released with a sweet new cover. Right now, I am leaving to do my first 5K of the year, The Polar Dash in St Paul Minnesota. Late this afternoon though, I will be curled up with this book. 🙂
Happy New Year everyone!!!!! Share what your first book of the year is going to be either by creating a post and linking it here or by telling me in the comments 🙂
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Thanks Angie – it was a lot of fun to do 🙂
Happy New Year Sheila!!! I’m so glad to be part of this and the collage came out great!!! It’s so fun to see what everyone is reading for their first pick and the reasons why they picked it!
Hope you have a great first run!!!
Thanks Kristin – it really came together under the wire 😀
Rebekah is reading a work of fiction based on the life of Buffalo Calf Road Woman a woman warrior who was present at the Battles of the Rosebud and Greasy Grass Rivers. Cheyenne lore has her as the one who made the kill shot on Custer. This book won the 2005 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Novel and was coauthored by Rosmary and Joseph Agonito. Joe taught the Plains Indians course R. took at Onondaga Community College this autumn.
What a fantastic sounding read!
I finally spotted you in the pics! I read a lot of VC Andrews when I was a teen. Thanks for sharing this meme with us.
Hee hee! Thanks for being a part of it Laura! 🙂
This is so cool! I didn’t know about this project before reading a few posts last night and this morning, I feel like I’ve missed a lot of posts these past few weeks! I love the collage and seeing all those smiling faces with their books!
Thanks Lu, it turned out great! I was so excited by the participation 🙂
Great idea Sheila and I love everyone’s pictures! I read Flowers in the Attic years ago, it was a great story and it is one I’d like to revisit too. Happy New Year
I hope to add the names of everyone who participated yet tonight 😉
I LOVE the collage…thanks so much for doing this. I am so glad I found out about this fun meme this year.
Happy New Year.
Stop by my blog tomorrow for an international giveaway of Jubilee’s Journey.
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My First Book of The Year
OOh thanks for the heads up Elizabeth. Tomorrow I have another 12 hour shift ahead of me, its our Annual Meeting of members and I am in charge of making it fun 🙂
I love the collage! What fun….and I’m eager to visit everyone’s posts. Happy New Year!
Thanks Laurel, I just got home and am trying to get warm 🙂 Settling in with my book and checking out the posts!
This was a great idea, Sheila! Thank you for hosting this. Lots of fun!
Happy 2014!
Thanks 😀
Love seeing everyone’s smiling faces with their books. Happy New Year.
Me too…. I need to list the bloggers participating so people can try to match blog to face 🙂
Thanks for hosting this fun First Book 2014. Will try to visit many of the others. I like seeing the faces of so many bookies.
I am so glad you will be visiting! That is half the fun 🙂
The collage looks great! I didn’t send in a picture but I did participate. This is such a fun meme, I hope it will continue in the future.
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http://lifesopenpages.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/first-book-of-year-2014.html#comments
I am so glad you participated! I think I will make it a yearly thing 🙂
Thanks for hosting this. What a great idea!
Thanks Heidi – next year hopefully I will have a little more time to work on it 🙂
Love the collage! Thank you for doing this!
Sure Patty 😀 Happy New Year!
What a great idea. My first book of the year is Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry. I just finished rereading The Giver (an oldie, but goodie) and decided to read the rest of the series!
Happy New Years to all!
OOH – Lois Lowry! Good choice!
Happy New Year! I love the collage. I hope everyone has fun with their first books of the year.
Thanks… I am just now getting to dig in 🙂
Thanks for hosting this event. I hope you enjoy your first book!
Thank you Pat 🙂
Nice . I love being a part of it Thank you. Because I am on a time schedule with the Night Huntress series discussion it so happens that I am in the midst of finishing First Drop of Crimson but I will be starting 11/22/63 today still. Here is my link
http://www.2jackies.com/2014/01/first-book-of-year-2014.html
You are welcome 😉
I love being a part of this! I am joining in with Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief which I have been looking forward to reading for two years now! I finally have a week before I must get back in the rhythm of reading for reviews so your meme gives me the perfect opportunity to read this novel! I’m so excited for the movie. The trailer is gripping!
LOVED The Book Thief!
Here’s the link to my post for first book of the year: http://shirley-mybookshelf.blogspot.ca/2014/01/first-book-of-year-happy-new-year.html
Fantastic idea, have you started a new tradiition? I have not read V C Andrews books I did try the first one years ago, but just wasn’t me.
Thanks for all the work, you did awesome.
I hope I have started a new tradition 🙂 It can only get better from here!
Happy new year!
Happy New Year!
How fun is this?! 🙂 Happy New Year to you all, especially you Sheila. I read my first VC Andrews book when I was in Junior High–if my parents had been paying more attention to my reading choices they may have been a bit shocked! 😉 Enjoy your books everyone!
xoox
Right? I was just talking about that… when I read it in my teens I dont remember thinking that much about the content… now I am like.. holy cow – that was a book about incest!!!
Thanks Sheila this is such a fun idea! I never really thought much about the “first” book, but I definitely will from now on. I picked out my “official” first book today (posted it on Chick with Books) and linked up. My first read is going to be The Unwelcomed Child by VC Andrews. I LOVED Flowers in the Attic and this is her newest book coming out the end of the month! Happy New Year!
I am so glad 🙂 So glad you participated too! OOH and you are also reading V C Andrews! Nice! Happy New Year!
My picture is on my post. I’m reading the book while in a downward dog pose.
http://bookdilettante.blogspot.com/2014/01/first-book-of-year-2014.html
Nice… you know I have to check that out 😉
I read Flowers in the Attic for the first time a year or so ago and I think it left me with psychological scars, lol. Did you know they’re doing a TV adaption this year? It was compulsive reading – I had to find out what happened in the other books by consulting wikipedia. 🙂 Sorry I didn’t take part in this meme in the end, just too busy!
It’s amazing how many people are reading physical books at the moment – it gives me hope that 75% of the market will always be paper books (which I love, I know they’re bad for trees… But…).
I think because of the TV adaption is why they have re-released the book with new cover (which I love!) Oh and yes.. the book can be scarring 🙂 Yes I agree, POWER to the PAPER book!!!
🙂 I like your cover better than my own edition, which is very YA – it’s actually an illustration: https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328232803l/12034772.jpg
I kind of like that cover too!
🙂 It’s amazing how one book can lead to 2 totally different covers with completely separate vibes!
I love this idea! It’s great to see what people are starting out the new year with. I’m currently in the midst of a few books so I don’t really count those…whatever book I START this year will be the official first book of the year. I’m not sure what that will be yet though.
Lauren from http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com
Nice! Thanks so much for popping in on the New year!
I am loving this, Shelia. THANKS so much.
And….I am loving seeing the person “behind the blog.” 🙂 The photos are so cute!!
Happy New Year!!
Isn’t that fun! That’s what I like too, the pictures of the bloggers… book lovers unite!
This was a fabulous idea, Sheila! Thanks for doing this–these kinds of things are always so fun!
Thanks, I really enjoyed doing it – and once I got started and seen the pictures I loved it even more. 😀
This was so much fun! I see lots of familiar faces in the collage! Happy New Year!
Thanks Kathy! It was fun to put together 😉
This is such a cute idea. My first book of the year was also the last book of 2013 – I’m about halfway through A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin. It was a great choice for me.
Happy new year!
Nice! Happy New Year!
This was so much fun! http://moonlightgleam.com/2014/01/first-book-of-the-year-2014.html
Awesome so glad you could join in!
Happy New Year! I might be one of the only people who never read Flowers In The Attic. 🙂
Its funny because as I am reading it now.. its creepier than I remember as a teen. 😀
This is great. I love seeing all the pictures of what everyone is reading!
I did too – I still have more to look through tonight 😉
I remember devouring that book in high school. I hope you are enjoying rereading it. Happy New Year!
Thanks! Happy New Year!
I love this idea! Will send you a pic. Happy new year!
Thanks Gayle!
This was such a fun challenge, thank you for hosting it!!
Thanks Kate!
How cute! I wish I had known about this ahead of time! Great feature!
I wish you had too – I did what I could to get the word out 🙂 Next year!
I’d just like to say thanks for hosting this Sheila. Not only did I get to blog about my first read of 2014 but I have found some wonderful blogs that I’d not seen before and have been inspired by the choices everyone has made!
That is so great! That is what I hoped this would do – connect people who love books 🙂
What a great idea, love all the photos from all the bookies!
Thanks me too!
Such fun Sheila, and the photo idea was awesome, I loved checking out pics and matching faces to blog names and their book choice 🙂
Thats so great!
Thanks so much for hosting. You got a great response. It’s an awesome thing. Happy New Reading Year!!
Thanks I was really surprised how many people joined in… I guess we all read on New Years Day 🙂
So fun! Loved to see everyone’s photo. Next year I’ll be a happier place and I’ll play along.
I hope you do Candice!
I love the collage! Great idea! I did get a little reading in yesterday, but not as much as I would have liked. I have a sick husband, and like most, he turns into a whiny baby who can’t do anything for himself. Got to love them, though, I will be glad when he is feeling better. I hope to get more read today. 🙂
I did not get a lot done either -too busy of a day but I had a blast and did get to the book in the evening.
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I saw your race pics on Facebook, you did awesome once again! Hopefully it’ll inspire me to get off my ass this year and move!
Thanks Kate! There are so many fun runs everywhere – we are not rock starts but we have fun 😀
What a fun idea! Happy New Year and thanks so much for stopping by! Jen @ YA Romantics
Thank you!
Great Collage! I forgot send my pic!! Can I do it now?
Yes! Send it!
Done! As I said I am late!
I will look for it 😉
Have a great reading year, Sheila. Picking out the first book was fun!
Thanks 😀 So glad you joined in!
I didn’t get a chance to join in since I was on vacation without a computer, but I love this idea! I started The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd on the 31st. I’ve only managed to read a few chapters so far, but it’s good! Happy New Year!
Nice! Happy New Year to you too!
Ooh, I love all the pictures Sheila!! I still have yet to finish a book this year, haha.
Thanks Amanda! I havent finished a book this year either! This weekend will help hopefully – it is suppose to be 35 below zero and that’s without the wind chill.