The hardest adjustment to parenthood has been the cut back in reading time. Life with a 3 year-old does not leave you much time for 2-hour reading blocks. Not complaining, just an adjustment. Instead of reading 15 or 20 good books I try to find those 4 or 5 great books, and if I start to read a book of questionable quality I stop reading around chapter 4 and move onto something captivating. The library is your friend, I have only bought one book in the 2011 calendar year.
Winners:
Fiction – 1Q84
Non-Fiction – The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Missed Fiction – Time to Hunt
Honorable Mentions
Bone Machine
11/22/63
88 mph to Roswell 