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Awake is gone, and Unforgettable, Alcatraz… At least Person of Interest is continuing…. And Grimm

I have no clue how they’re going to finish off Awake, and Alcatraz ended on such a big cliffhanger….nrg

• Staind
• Seether
• UFO (from the 70’s)
• Matchbox Twenty
• Breaking Benjamin
• Crowded House

BOOKS I READ IN 2011

These are the books I read in 2011 in the order that I read them.  There are some listed that are audio books, but I thought I’d include them.  There are some books from previous lists that I’ve re-read in the order that they were written.

1. Moonlight Mile                                 Dennis LeHane
2. Rescue                                          Anita Shreve
3. Bedtime Story                                 Robert J. Wiersema (Canadian)
4. The Mark                                       Jen Nadol
5. Red Hook Road                                Ayelet Waldman
6. Before I Wake                                 Robert J. Wiersema (Canadian)
7. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares                Rachel Cohen & David Levithan
8. Dust City                                       Robert Paul Weston (Canadian)
9. The Dive from Clausen’s Pier              Ann Packer
10. The Radley’s                                   Matt Haig
11. Secrets to the Grave                        Tami Hoag
12. Prison of the Daleks                          Trevor Baxendale (Doctor Who)
13. Little Face                                      Sophie Hannah
14. The Girl with the Glass Feet               Ali Shaw
15. The Lover’s Dictionary                      David Levithan
16. Songs Without Words                       Ann Packer
17. Sunset Park                                    Paul Auster
18. One Day                                         David Nicholls
19. The Devotion of Suspect X                Keigo Higashino
20. Water for Elephants                         Sara Gruen
21. Agent X                                         Noah Boyd
22. Arranged                                        Catherine McKenzie
23. Heroic Measures                              Jill Ciment
24. Foursome                                       Jane Fallon (Ricky Gervais’ partner)
25. Spin                                              Catherine McKenzie
26. The Incident Report                         Martha Baillie
27. The Art Thief (Audio Book)                Noah Charney (Simon Vance narrated)
28. The Last Voyage (Audio Book)           Dan Abnett (Doctor Who)
29. The Day of the Troll (Audio Book)       Simon Messingham (Doctor Who)
30. An Object of Beauty                        Steve Martin
31. The Eyre Affair                               Jasper Fforde   
32. Before I fall (Audio Book)                  Lauren Oliver (Sarah Drew narrated)
33. Lost in a Good Book                         Jasper Fforde   
34. The Well of Lost Plots                      Jasper Fforde
35. Something Rotten                           Jasper Fforde
36. First Among Sequels                        Jasper Fforde
37. One of our Thursdays is Missing         Jasper Fforde
38. The Weird Sisters                            Eleanor Brown
39. The Illumination                               Kevin Brockmeier
40. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk                    David Sedaris
41. Killing Floor                                     Lee Child
42. Once Upon a Time There was You       Elizabeth Berg
43. Housekeeping                                  Marilynne Robinson
44. Dead Reckoning                               Charlaine Harris
45. The Night Season                            Chelsea Cain
46. Benevolence                                   Cynthia Holz (Canadian)
47. The Help (Audio Book)                      Kathryn Stockett
48. Solar                                             Ian McEwan
49. 102 Minutes                                    Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn
50. Die Trying                                       Lee Child
51. Still Alice                                        Lisa Genova
52. Night Road                                      Kristin Hannah
53. Handling the Undead                         John Advide Lindqvist
54. Mrs. Kimble                                     Jennifer Haigh
55. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows   J. K. Rowling
56. Sisterhood Everlasting                       Ann Brashares
57. Into that Darkness                            Steven Price (Canadian)
58. Rising Stars: Born in Fire-Graphic Novel J. Michael Straczynski
59. Rising Stars: Power-Graphic Novel        J. Michael Straczynski
60. 666 Park Avenue                               Gabriella Pierce
61. Tripwire                                           Lee Child
62. A Stranger Like You                           Elizabeth Brundage
63. Up and Out                                      Ariella Papa
64. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society-Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows
65. Running Blind                                    Lee Child
66. Thirteen                                          Susie Maloney (Canadian)
67. Twenty Thirty                                  Albert Brooks
68. Echo Burning                                    Lee Child
69. The Condition                                   Jennifer Haigh
70. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children-Ransom Riggs (First Novel)
71. Zombie, Ohio                                    Scott Kenemore
72. Without Fail                                     Lee Child
73. The Enemy                                      Lee Child
74. The Fate of Katherine Carr                 Thomas H. Cook
75. Promise Not to Tell                            Jennifer McMahon
76. One Shot                                        Lee Child
77. Darkside                                          Belinda Bauer
78. The Hard Way                                  Lee Child
79. The Dead of Night                            Alex Crowe
80. Bad Luck & Trouble                           Lee Child
81. Eyes Wide Open                               Andrew Gross
82. The 9/11 Report (Graphic Novel)         Sid Jacobson
83. The Alchemist (Graphic Novel)            Paulo Coelho
84. Nothing To Lose                               Lee Child
85. The Perks of Being a Wallflower           Stephen Chbosky
86. The Odyssey (Graphic Novel)              Adapted by Gareth Hinds
87. Greywalker                                      Kat Richardson
88. Sookie Stackhouse Companion            Charlaine Harris
89. Gone Tomorrow                                Lee Child
90. Island of Lost Girls                            Jennifer McMahon
91. The Uncoupling                                Meg Wolitzer
92. Joy for Beginners                              Erica Bauermeister
93. Still Life                                          Louise Penny
94. 61 Hours                                         Lee Child
95. Worth Dying                                    Lee Child
96. The Eyeless                                    Lance Parkin (Doctor Who)
97. The Hole We’re In                            Gabrielle Zevin
98. My Tiki Girl                                     Jennifer McMahon
99. Heat Rises                                     Richard Castle
100. The Affair                                      Lee Child
101. Case Histories                                Kate Atkinson
102. One Good Turn                               Kate Atkinson
103. Machine Man                                  Max Barry
104. When Will There Be Good News          Kate Atkinson
105. Started Early, Took my Dog               Kate Atkinson
106. The Night Circus                              Erin Morgenstern (first novel)
107. Gallows View                                   Peter Robinson
108. The Cupid Effect                              Dorothy Koomson
109. A Dedicated Man                              Peter Robinson
110. Harbor                                            John Ajvide Lindqvist
111. I Married You for Happiness                Lily Tuck
112. A Necessary End                              Peter Robinson
113. The Reckoning                                 Patricia Tyrrell
114. Vital Signs                                      Tessa McWatt
115. Liar’s Kiss (Graphic Novel)                  Eric Skillman/Jhomar Soriano
116. The 37^th Hour                                  Jodi Compton
117. Just After Sunset                             Stephen King

tumblrbot asked: WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?

Being with my daughters or husband.  Eating chocolate.

These are listed in the order I read them.

Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde

Confessions of a Contractor - Richard Murphy

The Good Neighbours: Book Two KITH - Holly Black

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Sarah Rainone

Feathered - Laura Kasischke

Malice - Chris Wooding

Jennifer Johnson is sick of Being Single - Heather McElhatton

The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

The Long Walk Home - Will North

Second Hand - Michael Zadoorian

Reunion - Therese Fowler

Die for You - Lisa Unger

Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger

Vengence Road - Rick Mofina

Mercury in Retrograde - Paula Froelich

The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han

Bombproof - Michael Robotham

Noah’s Compass - Anne Tyler

Love and Summer - William Trevor

Little Bee - Chris Cleave

Heat Wave - Richard Castle

Not Untrue and Not Unkind - Ed O’Loughlin

The Truth About Love - Josephine Hart

Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth - Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriov

Blonde Roots - Bernadine Evaristo

Damage - Josephine Hart

Shutter Island - Dennis LeHane

Blacklands - Belinda Bauer

Brooklyn - Colm Toibin

Sweet and Deadly - Charlaine Harris

The 13th Hour - Richard Doetsch

Too Much Money - Dominick Dunne

Deeper Than the Dead - Tami Hoag

Horns - Joe Hill

Living Oprah - Robyn Okrant

Hurry Down Sunshine - Michael Greenberg

Got You Back - Jane Fallon

Mathilda Savitch - Victor Lodato

One Good Dog - Susan Wilson

Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd

The Spellmans Strike Again - Lisa Lutz

Daemon - Daniel Suarez

Twenty Boy Summer - Sarah Ockler

The Heights - Peter Hedges

The Bricklayer - Noah Boyd

The Last Time I Saw You - Elizabeth Berg

The Pleasure of my Company - Steve Martin

Bridge of Sand - Janet Burroway

Restless - William Boyd

Bite Me - Christopher Moore

Wake - Lisa McMann

Monster - A. Lee Martinez

Freedom - Daniel Suarez

Tempest Rising - Nicole Peeler

Never Look Away - Linwood Barclay

Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris

Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris

Fade - Lisa McMann

Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin

The Body of Death - Elizabeth George

I am Not a Serial Killer - Dan Wells

Laying the Ghost - Judy Astley

My Name is Memory - Ann Brashares

Promises to Keep - Jane Green

Men and Dogs - Katie Crouch

Need - Carrie Jones

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

The Last Thing I Remember - Andrew Klavan

The Summer of Secrets - Martina Reilly

Perfect - Natasha Friend

One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Embers - Hyatt Bass

The Lake Shore Limited - Sue Miller

Raven Black - Ann Cleeves

Project 17 - Laura Faria Stolarz

White Nights - Ann Cleeves

Red Bones - Ann Cleeves

Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves

Angel Fire - Lisa Miscione

Small Wars - Sadie Jones

Shadow Tag - Louise Erdrich

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

This World We Live In - Susan Beth Pfeffer

Scarlett Fever - Maureen Johnson

Generation Loss - Elizabeth Hand

The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano

Insatiable - Meg Cabot (yuck, terrible book)

Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson (yeah, I know I read it last year too)

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender

Blockade Billy - Stephen King

Faithful Place - Tana French

Gone - Lisa McMann

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future - Michael J. Fox

The Good Daughters - Joyce Maynard

Bleed for Me - Michael Robotham

Fragile - Lisa Unger

The Girl Who Played with Fire - Steig Larsson

Takeover - Lisa Black

Free for All - Don Borchert

Tuesday’s Child - Louise Bagshawe

Noah’s Turn - Ken Finkleman

Backseat Saints - Joshilyn Jackson

Secret Smile - Nicci French

Naked Heat - Richard Castle

The House That Jack Built - Guy Adams

Minding Frankie - Maeve Binchy

Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn - Sarah Miller

Second Chances - Martina Reilly

Started Early, Took my Dog - Kate Atkinson

Look Back in Anger - John Osborne

A Drink Before The War - Dennis LeHane

Darkness, Take My Hand - Dennis LeHane

Sacred - Dennis LeHane

The Sonderberg Case - Elie Wiesel

Gone Baby Gone - Dennis LeHane

Prayers for Rain - Dennis LeHane

All the books I have read in 2009 (excepting a few from earlier in the year that I can’t remember) 

The School of Essential Ingredients - First time author - Erica Bauermeister 
The Miracle Myx - First Time Author - Dave Diotalevi 
The Sister - First Time Author - Poppy Adams 
Irreplaceable - 1st time Author - Stephen Lovely 
Family Baggage - Monica McInerney 
Testimony - Anita Shreve 
Always Looking Up - Michael J. Fox 
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson 
When will There be Good News - Kate Atkinson 
Heartsick & Sweetheart & Evil at Heart - all by Chelsea Cain 
The Proposing Tree - James F. Twyman 
The Usual Rules & Baby Love - Joyce Maynard 
Suite Scarlett & 13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson 
The Story of a Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer 
Laura Rider`s Masterpiece - Jane Hamilton 
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman 
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet - 1st time author - Jamie Ford 
Nightside books (first 4) - Simon R. Green 
The Hour I First Believed & Wishin` and Hopin` - Wally Lamb 
Home Safe - Elizabeth Berg 
The Accidental Bride - Janice Harayda 
Careless in Red - Elizabeth George 
The Spellman Files & Curse of the Spellmans & Revenge of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz 
Tomorrow - Graham Swift 
Boomsday - Christopher Buckley 
Girls in Trucks - Katie Crouch 
Good Grief - Lolly Winston 
The Pact - Jennifer Sturman 
Syrup: A Novel - Max Barry 
What I Saw and How I Lied - Judy Blundell 
Your Heart Belongs to Me - Dean Koontz 
The Boys in Trees - Mary Swan 
The Three Willows - Ann Brashares 
Deadly Canadian Women - Patricia MacQuarrie 
The Impact of a Single Event - R.L. Prendergast 
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming - Joshilyn Jackson 
The Glister - John Burnside 
What was Lost - Catherine O`Flynn 
Red Bones - Ann Cleeves 
Dead & Gone - Charlaine Harris 
Bump in the Night - Isabelle Holland 
A Child`s Book of True Crime - Chloe Hooper 
The Dangerous Husband - Jane Shapiro 
April & Oliver - 1st time Author - Tess Callahan 
An American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld 
Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller 
My Best Friend`s Girl - Dorothy Koomson 
Hold Up - Terri Fields 
Mr. Toppit - 1st time author - Charles Elton 
Every Demon Has His Day - Cara Lockwood 
Off the Record - Jennifer O`Connell 
Happiness Sold Separately - Lolly Winston 
The Cold Light of Mourning - Elizabeth J. Duncan 
The Anglophile - Laure Gwen Shapiro 
Jenny Green`s Killer Junior Year - Amy Belasen 
The Family Man - Eleanor Lipman 
The Time Traveller`s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 
Dune Road - Jane Green 
Gill`s All Fright Diner - A.L. Martinez 
Columbine - Dave Cullin 
In the Woods & The Likeness & - Tana French 
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain 
The Outcast - Sadie Jones - first time author 
Memoirs of a Teenaged Amnesiac - Gabriel Zevin 
Hope in a Jar - Beth Harbison 
The Abortionist`s Daughter - Elizabeth Hyde 
Lock & Key - Welcome to Lovecraft - Joe Hill - Graphic Novel 
Lock & Key - Headgames - Joe Hill - Graphic Novel 
The Good Neighbour`s - Book 1 - Kin - Holly Black 
Beat the Reaper - 1st time Author - Josh Bazell 
Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson 
While I`m Falling - Laura Moriarty 
As If by Accident - Julie Johnston 
The Rest of her Life - Laura Moriarty 
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller 
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein 
Little Pink Slips - Sally Koslow 
Twenty`s Girl - Sophie Kinsella 
Beatiful Lies & Sliver of Truth - Lisa Unger 
Apologize, Apologize - Elizabeth Kelly 
Choke Hold - Todd Babiak 
The Magicians - Lev Grossman 
Secret Society Girl - Diana Peterfreund 
Codex - Lev Grossman 
Therapy - 1st time author - Sebastian Fitzek 
An Accidental Light - 1st time author - Elizabeth Diamond 
Mapping the Edge - Sarah Dunant 
The Rapture - Liz Janzen 
Blackout - Lisa Unger 
The Gates (of Hell are about To Open) Want a Peek - John Connelly 
A Touch of Dead - Charlaine Harris 
Hello Goodbye - Emily Chenoweth 
Dark Entries - Ian Rankin - Graphic Novel 
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley 
Twightlight Zone - The After Hours - Rod Serling - A Graphic Novel 
The Surrogates - Robert Venditti & Brett Weldelo - A Graphic Novel 
Secrets of the City - Anne Roiphe 
The Telling - Joe Baker 
Suspect & Lost & The Night Ferry & Shatter - all by - Michael Robotham 
The Spare Room - Helen Garner 
The Leisure Seeker - Michael Zadoorian 
Bad Girls don`t Die - 1st time author - Katie Alender 
This is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper 
Goldengrove - Francie Prose 
A Nice Cold Grave & Grave Secret - Charlaine Harris