News From Laggeland: Happy Birthday Dad

Not a great photo.

I really should go scan another one.

He'd be 69 today.

(Oops, sorry Shelley. I can't count.)

Books I've Read in 2012 -----------*Okay, ** Pretty Good, ***Very Good, ****GREAT Book

12/12 "The Racketeer" by John Grisham **
12/12 "A Casual Vacancy" by J K Rowlins ***
12/12 "Love Times Three" by Joe, Alvina, Vickie, and Valerie Darger ***
12/12 "A Soft Place to Land" by Susan Rebecca White **
11/12 "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins ****
11/12 "The Smoke Room" by Earl Emerson ***
11/12 "The Art Forger" by B.A. Shapiro ***
11/12 "An Unfinished Life" by Mark Spragg ****
10/12 "Family Honor" by Robert B. Parker **
10/12 "The Night Journal" by Elizabeth Crook ***
9/12 "Dark Tort" by Diane Mott Davidson **
9/12 "Looking For Peyton Place" by Barbara Delinsky **
9/12 "Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James **
9/12 "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See ***
8/12 "Fifty Shades Darker" by E.L. James ***
8/12 "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James **
8/12 "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn ***
8/12 "The Nightmare" by Lars Kepler ****
7/12 "In One Person" by John Irving **
7/12 "The Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold *
7/12 "Lemon Tart" by Josi S. Kilpack **
7/12 "The Hypnotist" by Lars Kepler ***
7/12 "The Hunt Club" by John Lescroart ***
7/12 "At Risk" by Patricia Cronwell *
6/12 "The Confession" by John Grisham ****
6/12 "The Orange Tree" by Mildred Walker **
6/12 "Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail" by Malika Oufkir **
5/12 "Tears In The Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March And It's Aftermath" by Michael and Elizabeth Norman **
4/12 "House Rules" by Rachel Sontag ***
4/12 "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins ***
4/12 "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins ***
3/12 "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins ***
3/12 "Explosive Eighteen" by Janet Evanovich ***
3/12 "The Wrong Mother" by Sophie Hannah ****
3/12 "V is for Vengeance" By Sue Grafton ***
2/12 "Where The Bluebird " by Wallace Stegner NO STARS
2/12 "Moloka'i" by Alan Brennert ****
2/12 "The 10th Anniversary" by James Patterson **
1/12 "Hawaii" by Alan Brennert **
1/12 "Some Girls: My Life In A Harem" by Jillian Lauren **
1/12 "Paper Towns" by John Green **
1/12 "First Family" by David Baldacci **

Books I've Read in 2011 *Okay, **Good, ***Great

12/11 Hester: The Missing Years of the Scarlet Letter: A Novel by Paula Reed ***
12/11 Notes From The Dog by Gary Paulsen **
12/11 Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe***
12/11 Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich **
11/11 George Clooney The Last Great Movie Star by Kimberly Potts *
11/11 The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff ***
11/11 The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton **
10/11 The Pelican Brief by John Grisham ***
10/11 Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger **
10/11 The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough *
9/11 The Appeal by John Grisham *
9/11 The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards **
8/11 The Client by John Grisham ***
8/11 Summer Sisters by Judy Blume **
8/11 The Red Queen by Phillipa Gregory *
8/11 The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly **
7/11 The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin ***
7/11 Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West ***
7/11 The Help by Kathryn Stockett ***
6/11 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant ***
6/11 Turning the Tables by Rita Rudner **
5/11 House Rules by Jodi Picoult **
5/11 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold ***
5/11 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler *
4/11 Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels NO STARS!
4/11 The Street Lawyer by John Grisham **
4/11 Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson and Richard Dilallo **
4/11 Plainsong by Kent Haruf ***
4/11 Mennonite In A Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen ***
3/11 A Time To Kill by John Grisham ***
3/11 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ***
3/11 Molokai by Alan Brennert ***
2/11 American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld **
2/11 The Sweater by Glenn Beck *
2/11 Hotel On The Corner of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford **
1/11 Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert **
1/11 Sweet Shattered Dreams by Stanley Gordon West *
1/11 Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult *

Books I've Read in 2010 *Okay, **Good, ***Great

12/10 Little Bee by Chris Cleave *
12/10 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson ***
12/10 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling ***
11/10 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ***
10/10 The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson ***
10/10 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver *
9/10 Look Again by Lisa Scottoline **
9/10 Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich *
8/10 The 8th Confession by James Patterson **
8/10 Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo **
8/10 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson *
8/10 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ***
7/10 Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson *
7/10 The Ocean Inside by Janna McMahan *
7/10 Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg **
7/10 Twice Kissed by Lisa Jackson **
6/10 Feerless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich **
6/10 U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton **
6/10 Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke *
6/10 Shelter Me by Juliette Fay ***
6/10 The Lonely Girls Club by Suzanne Forster **
6/10 Mercy by Julie Garwood **
5/10 Night by Elie Wiesel ***
5/10 The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton **
5/10 In Open Spaces by Russell Rowland ***
5/10 Vampirates-Demons of the Ocean by Justin Somper NO STAR
4/10 Killer Blond by Laura Levine *
4/10 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneggar **
4/10 Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich *
3/10 Heat Lightning by John Sandford**
3/10 Oxygen by Carol Cassella **
3/10 Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich **
3/10 The Help by Kathryn Stockett ***
2/10 Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich **
2/10 Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown **
2/10 This Pen For Hire by Laura Levine **
2/10 92 Pacific Boulevard by Debbie Macomber *
1/10 Chill Factor by Sandra Brown **
1/10 Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean **
12/09 The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards ***
12/09 Happiness Key by Emily Richards **

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Happy Birthday Dad

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