Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The 2011 Books

Here is the list of books I've read this year. I haven't listed the ones I didn't finish, and they aren't listed in any order. I've not reviewed some of them, and don't intend to do reviews anymore. The fact that I read them suggests that I liked them well enough!


1-The Postmistress - Sarah Blake
2-The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell
3-Before the Frost - Henning Mankel
4-The Red Door - Charles Todd
5-Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English - Natasha Solomons
6-The Black Cat  - Martha Grimes
7-Necessary As Blood - Deborah Crombie
8-A Lonely Death - Charles Todd
9-Haunted Ground - Erin Hart
10-The Draining Lake - Arnaldur Indridason
11-The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
12-Hanna's Daughters - Marianne Fredriksson
13-Live Bait - P.J. Tracy
14-Astrid and Veronika - Linda Olsson
15-Heaven is High - Kate Wilhelm
16-Arms and The Women - Reginald Hill
17-An Incomplete Revenge - Jacqueline Winspear
18-Raven Black - Anne Cleeves
19The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott -Kelly O'Connor McNees
20-A Soft Place to Land - Susan Rebecca White
21-As Always Julia - Joan Reardon
22-The More Deceived - David Roberts
23-The Tapestry of Love - Rosy Thornton
24-The Spice Box - Lou Jane Temple
25-Voices - Arnaldur Indridason
26-A Rare Interest in Corpses - Ann Granger
27-Fearful Symmetry - Morag Joss
28-A Change In Altitude - Anita Shreve
29-Bury Your Dead - Louise Penny
30-The Season of Second Chances - Diane Meier
31-Whistling in the Dark - Lelsey Kagen
32-Up at the Villa - W. Somerset Maugham
33-Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
34-The Tiger in the Smoke - Margery Allingham
35-Breaking Silence - Linda Castillo
36-These Lovers Fled Away - Howard Spring
37Two Rivers - T. Greenwood
38-Mind's Eye - Hakan Nesser
39-Other People's Children - Joanna Trollope
40-The King of Lies - John Hart
41-Blood Harvest - S.J. Bolton
42-Tomorrow River - Lesley Kagen
43-I see You Everywhere - Julia Glass
44-Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason
45-The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
46-A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny
47-The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo 
48-Nemesis - Jo Nesbo
 49-The Devil's Star - Jo Nesbo
50-Cloud Chamber - Michael Dorris
51-Two For Sorrow - Nicola Upson
52-Hypothermia - Arnaldur Indridason
53-Shoot to Thrill - P.J. Tracy
54-Every Last One - Anna Quindlen
55-White Nights - Ann Cleeves
56-Borkmann's Point - Hakan Nesser
57-A Year on Ladybug Farm - Donna Ball
58 - Sing You Home - Jodi Picoult
59 -B urnt Mountain - Anne Rivers Siddons
60 - The American Heiress - Dasiy Goodwin
61 - The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Heidi W. Durrow
62 - At Home on Ladybug Farm - Donna Ball
63 - Letters from Ladybug Farm - Donna Ball
64 - An Expert in Murder - Nicola Upson
65 - Turn of Mind - Alice La Plante
66 - Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
67 - A Night of Long Knives - Rebecca Cantrell
68 - The Ice Princess - Camilla Lackberg
69 - Death in the Garden - Elizabeth Ironside

Monday, November 14, 2011

Autumn in New York

We spent a week at Lake George in New York several years ago when we were in the area for our nephew's wedding. This was the sight that greeted us one day when we went for a drive around the lake.