Recent Book Activity

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Books read in 2011:

1 - Time Bomb (Jonathan Kellerman)
2 - Terminal Freeze (Lincoln Child)
3 - Cat Among the Pigeons (Agatha Christie)
4 - The Scarecrow (Michael Connelly)
5 - The Peacock Feather Murder (John Dickson Carr)
6 - A Holiday For Murder (Agatha Christie)
7 - Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Chelsea Handler)
8 - Second Child (John Saul)
9 - An Overdose of Death (Agatha Christie)
10 - Cemetery Dance (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child)
11 - The Chinese Orange Mystery (Ellery Queen)
12 - Thr3e (Ted Dekker)
13 - Impact (Douglas Preston)
14 - The Trial of Alex Cross (James Patterson)
15 - Death Match (Lincoln Child)
16 - The Terminal Man (Michael Crichton)
17 - Stranglehold (Jack Ketchum)
18 - The Throat (Peter Straub)
19 - The God Project (John Saul)
20 - The Broken Window (Jeffery Deaver)
21 - Ransom at the Opera (Fred Hunter)
22 - Reliquary (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child)
23 - The Wolfman (Jonathan Maberry)
24 - Fever Dream (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child)
25 - Wicked Prey (John Sanford) - R
26 - Dark of the Moon (John Sanford) - R
27 - Act of Treason (Vince Flynn) - R
28 - Cold Fire (Dean Koontz) 5/10 - boring, too much filler
29 - The Pied Piper (Ridley Pearson) - R
30 - The Zero Game (Brad Meltzer) - R 9/10 wonderful book
31 - The Serpent Club (Tom Coffey) - 2/10 terrible book
32 - The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (Carter Dickson) - 3/10 too far-fetched (man is strangled and left to drown in H20 but survives? Laughable but insulting to the reader).

Books I gave up on: The Front (Patricia Cornwell), Mr. Parker Pyne (Agatha Christie), Dead Watch (John Sanford), The Upright Man (Michael Marshall), Desperation (Stephen King), Murder She Wrote: Trick or Treachery (Jessica Fletcher), The Throat (Peter Straub)

Books read in 2012:

1 - Utopia (Lincoln Child) 6/10 ~ good, but not as stupendous as some reviews state it to be
2 - Dead Sleep (Greg Iles) 4/10 - terrible plot, boring main characters, too much dialogue and filler, lackluster, graphic, chauvinistic author!
3 - The Kills (Linda Fairstein) (R) - 3/10 [audiobook] - in a word: awful
4 - Daniel X: Watch the Skies (James Patterson) (R) - in progress
5 - The Three Coffins (John Dickson Carr) - in progress

Books read in 2012:
Books read in 2011: 32
Books read in 2010: 34
Books read in 2009: 29

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I have wild released books in the following North American cities:

Abilene, Texas
Alford, Florida
Altoona, Iowa
Amarillo, Texas
Ames, Iowa
Andrews, North Carolina
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Boerne, Texas
Bogalusa, Louisiana
Bondurant, Iowa
Brookhaven, Mississippi
Cameo, Colorado
Charlotte, Vermont
Clayton, New Mexico
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Cortez, Colorado
Covington, Louisiana
Dallas, Texas
Daytona Beach, Florida
Destin, Florida
Des Moines, Iowa
Dothan, Alabama
Durango, Colorado
Fort Worth, Texas
Fountain, Florida
Fredericksburg, Texas
Grand Junction, Colorado
Gulfport, Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hemphill, Texas
Irving, Texas
Kerrville, Texas
Lacombe, Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana
Longview, Texas
Luling, Louisiana
Mancos, Colorado
Mandeville, Louisiana
Many, Louisiana
Marianna, Florida
Metairie, Louisiana
Milam, Texas
Mobile, Alabama
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
New Orleans, Louisiana
Norcross, Georgia
Ormond Beach, Florida
Palisade, Colorado
Panama City, Florida
Pass Christian, Mississippi
Pearl River, Louisiana
Peru, Indiana
Picayune, Mississippi
Pleasant Hill, Iowa
Richton, Mississippi
Roswell, New Mexico
San Antonio, Texas
Shamrock, Texas
Shreveport, Louisiana
Slidell, Louisiana
Vidalia, Louisiana
West Des Moines, Iowa
Wichita Falls, Texas

As far as around the world goes, I have mailed books to Australia, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, The Philippines, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Sweden and, of course, the U.S.A.


visited 18 states (8%)

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