This sure has been a wonderful year. I am so glad I have embarked on this blogging adventure. I have "met" some truly wonderful people because of this blog and know now that this is the perfect place for me to be.
IN 2010:
- I read 184 books. (my goal was 140)
- I reviewed 126 of them
- I hosted 45 giveaways
- I posted 40 random thoughts
- Completed many book related challenges.
- I have received several blog awards
- I participated in 2 major Blog Events.
- There have been 12 guest posts on Dollycas's Thoughts
- I participated in a variety of Memes and have hosted a few. Enquiring Minds Want To Know is still happening and new people join every week.
- Dollycas's Thoughts has almost 500 followers from all over the world.
I have had page hits from:
(totals shown are from May - December 30, 2010)
I have thought about how to present my best books of 2010 for the past few weeks. I will not be doing a top ten list because I loved so many books this past year putting them in order would be impossible so I have chosen my BEST #1 in four categories and then will recap the ones that earned my " I LOVED IT" rating (5 stars) and those that earned my "I LIKED IT" rating (4 stars). These are all books I RECOMMEND YOU SHOULD READ IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.
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| A Killer Plot | Ellery Adams |
| Where is God? | Dr. John Townsend |
| Lye in Wait | Cricket McRae |
| Heaver Preserve Us | Cricket McRae |
| Fatal Fixer Upper | Jennie Bentley |
| spackled and Spooked | Jennie Bentley |
| The Noticer | Andy Andrews |
| The Shack | Wm. Paul Young |
| Sprinkle with Murder | Jenn McKinlay |
| The Lost Quilter | Jennifer Chiaverini |
| The Quilter's Kitchen | Jennifer Chiaverini |
| Caught | Harlan Coben |
| plaster and POISON | Jennie Bentley |
| No Time To Waive Goodbye | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| Happy Hour | Michelle Scott |
| Sink Trap | Christy Evans |
| Lead Pipe Cinch | Christy Evans |
| The Cat, The Professor and The Poison | Leann Sweeney |
| Parting River Jordan | ML Barnes |
| Moon Spinners | Sally Goldenbaum |
| A Cutthroat Business | Bente Gallagher |
| Adulation | Tiara Wilkens |
| The Little Giant of Aberdeen County | Tiffany Baker |
| Sophie Redesigned | Karen Dahood |
| The Missing Element | John L. Betcher |
| Half Price Homicide | Elaine Viets |
| Toast Mortem | Claudia Bishop |
| Grace Under Pressure | Julie Hyzy |
| The Island | Elin Hilderbrand |
| Murder is Binding | Lorna Barrett |
| Bookmarked For Death | Lorna Barrett |
| Swimsuit | James Patterson and Maxine Paetro |
| The Days of our Lives | Ken Corday |
| Bookplate Special | Lorna Barrett |
| The Long Quiche Goodbye | Avery Aames |
| Delicious and Suspicious | Riley Adams |
| The 19th Element | John L. Betcher |
| How To Host A Killer Party | Penny Warner |
| Red Hook Road | Ayelet Waldman |
| False Impressions | Terri Thayer |
| How To Crash A Killer Bash | Penny Warner |
| Murder Past Due | Miranda James |
| Buzz Off | Hannah Reed |
| The Way of the Guilty | Jennifer Stanley |
| Pieces of Happiness | Irene Zutell |
| The Ring: Bobby's Story | Robert LaClaire |
| I Scream, You Scream | Wendy Lyn Watson |
| Scoop To Kill | Wendy Lyn Watson |
| The Missing Ink | Karen E. Olson |
| Pretty in Ink | Karen E. Olson |
| Driven To Ink | Karen E. Olson |
| Don't Blink | James Patterson |
| Murder at the PTA | Laura Alden |
| The Chocolate Cupid Killigs | JoAnna Carl |
| The Chocolate Pirate Plot | JoAnna Carl |
| Sleeping With Anemone | Kate Collins |
| Dirty Rotten tendrils | Kate Collins |
| Sew Deadly | Elizabeth Lynn Casey |
| Death Threads | Elizabeth Lynn Casey |
| Pinned For Murder | Elizabeth Lynn Casey |
| A Holiday Yarn | Sally Goldenbaum |
| Snow Day | Billy Coffey |
| Once Wicked Always Dead | T.Marie Benchley |
| The Fashion Hound Murders | Elaine Viets |
| An Uplifting Murder | Elaine Viets |
| Silent Kill | David Fingerman |
| God's Guest List | Debbie Macomber |
| Starlit | Lisa Rinna |
| The Double Cross | Clare O'Donohue |
| Rescue | Anita Shreve |
| Bedeviled Eggs | Laura Childs |
| A Killer Crop | Sheila Connelly |
| The Fat Man A Tale of North Pole Noir | Ken Harmon |
| Run For Your Life | James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge |
| Step on A Crack | James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge |
| Worst Case | James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge |
| Chapter & Hearse | Lorna Barrett |
| The Diva Paints the Town | Krista Davis |
| Buttercream Bump Off | Jenn McKinlay |
| The Christmas Journey | Donna VanLiere |
| State of the Onion | Julie Hyzy |
| Hail to the Chef | Julie Hyzy |
| Eggsecutive Orders | Julie Hyzy |
| Buffalo West Wings | Julie Hyzy |
| The Cat, The Quilt and the Corpse | LeAnn Sweeney |
| The Body in the Sleigh | Katherine Hall Page |
| High Anxiety | Charlotte Hughes |
| The Fixer Upper | Mary Kay Andrews |
| Leftover Dead | Jimmie Ruth Evans |
| Cockatiels at Seven | Donna Andews |
| Six Geese a-Slaying | Donna Andews |
| Stirring Up Strife | Jennifer Stanley |
| Love Mercy | Earlene Fowler |
| Murder on the Rocks | Karen MacInerney |
| Dead and Buried | Karen MacInerney |
| The Summer Hideaway | Susan Wiggs |
| Miss Julia Renews Her Vows | Ann B. Ross |
| Patterns in the Sand | Sally Goldbaum |
| Farm Fresh Murder | Paige Shelton |
| Sand Sharks | Margaret Maron |
| Dolled Up for Muder | Deb Baker |
| Goodbye Dolly | Deb Baker |
| Hand of Fate | Lis Wiehl with April Henry |
| Dolly Departed | Deb Baker |
| Hannah's List | Debbie Macomber |
| State Fair | Earlene Fowler |
| Dead Man of the Year | Stephen Hawley Martin |
| Killer Cuts | Elaine Viets |
| Just Don't Call Me Ma'am | Anna Mitchael |
| Fleece Navidad | Maggie Sefton |
| Dropped Dead Stitch | Maggie Sefton |
| The Heart Mender | Andy Andrews |
| Quicksand | Marilyn Randall |
| The Case of the Great Granny | Thomas Emmons Pisano |
| Amanda Memories | Dr. Joel R. Gecht |
| Population:485 | Michael Perry |
| Unbreakable Hostage | LE Harvey |
| Death in Daytime | Eileen Davidson |
| Dial Emmy for Murder | Eileen Davidson |
| Diva Las Vegas | Eileen Davidson |
| How To Wash A Cat | Rebecca M. Hale |
| Nine Lives Lasts Forever | Rebecca M. Hale |
| The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | Aimee Bender |
| The Postcard Killers | James Patterson |
| Into Protection | Terry Chaudhuri |
| The Quick and the Thread | Amanda Lee |
| Sketch Me If You Can | Sharon Pape |
| Heat Wave | Richard Castle |
| Wrinkles, Waistlines, and Wet Pants | Jeanne R. Kraus |
| A Deadly Row | Casey Mayes |
| Wicked Weaves | Joyce & Jim Lavene |
| Ghastly Glass | Joyce & Jim Lavene |
| Deadly Daggers | Joyce & Jim Lavene |
| Out Live Your Life | Max Lucado |
| Call Me Mrs. Miracle | Debbie Macomber |
| Dead Renegade | Victoria Houston |
| A Truth for a Truth | Emilie Richards |
| The False Friend | Myla Goldberg |
| Blood Over Badge | Wayne Farquhar |
| Homicide In Hardcover | Kate Carlisle |
| If Books Could Kill | Kate Carlisle |
| The Lies That Bind | Kate Carlisle |
| The Lover's Knot | Clare O'Donohue |
| The Drunkard's Path | Clare O'Donohue |
| Eggs In Purgatory | Laura Childs |
| Eggs Benedict Arnold | Laura Childs |
| One Bad Apple | Sheila Connelly |
| Rotten To The Core | Sheila Connelly |
| Red Delicious Death | Sheila Connelly |
| If Walls Could Talk | Juliet Blackwell |
| The Diva Runs Out Of Thyme | Krista Davis |
| The Diva Takes The Cake | Krista Davis |
| India Black | Carol K. Carr |
| Uncommon Grpunds | Sandra Balzo |
| Murder Most Maine | Karen MacInerney |
As you can see from these lists picking 10 or 20 and putting them in order would have been a monumental task. It really is true, there are "so many good books and so little time". I am really looking forward to all the wonderful books coming out in 2011. I hope you will continue to stop by Dollycas's Thoughts often for Book Reviews, Recommendations, Random Thoughts and Giveaways, but even more importantly I hope you find time to "Escape Into A Good Book!" hopefully many good books.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
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14 comments:
I was planning to get more organized about reading and reviewing. Wow do you put me to shame!!! This is wonderful!
Happy New Year, Lori!
I need to tidy up my blog a little and get my reading in order. Unfortunately with a busy family my reading comes last.....2011 is the year to sort that out! :)
All the best
Carol
Happy New Year - wishing you lots of great books in 2011.
Lori, I enjoyed looking at your lists. Lots of great books. Wishing you and your family a very Happy New Year. Hope 2011 is full of joy and a lot of great reading!!
Wow, you have some great cozies on your love it list. Some I've read and agree with you and some I want to read and am happy to see you loved them. You are definitely an inspiration. Happy New Year from one cozy lover to another.
There goes 2011! You've given me so many good books to read. I'm delighted to find my books on your list and honored to be in such good company.
Congratulations on your one-year blogoversary -- and many more.
Wowsa, I'm so glad you did this list I couldn't remember who I found the Tatto shop mysteries from, I going to try them this year.
Happy New Year to you
Here is my favourite list
http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2010/12/tea-time-with-marce-2010-list-of.html
Happy New Year!
Looking forward to your upcoming reviews.
Happy New Year from your newest follower!! Your blog looks awesome, I'll be back often, that's for sure.
If you get a chance, stop by and follow me back. Thanks.
What I'm wondering...is how you get those percentage done boxes under your challenges on your side bar?? I keep seeing them on other blogs...I am signed up for four challenges, but I'd love to be able to post them on my side bar.
Thanks, have a great day.
~Steph
http://fortheluvofsanity.blogspot.com
Lori this past year has indeed been something else, lots of good books, lots of good internet contacts and most of all it is now over and a bright new year is beginning for us all!
After ringing in the New Year last night thanks to my persistently loud neighbors I woke up very late but hope 2011 brings you more book reading joy and more fun blogging than you ever dreamed!
jackie >_<
Lori,
Thanks so much with your help on the boxes below the reading challenges!! I really appreciate it.
~Steph
4 the LUV of SaNiTy
Thanks for the award for The 19th Element, Lori. YOU ROCK! All the best to you and yours in 2011.
You are so organized! This is an awesome post Lori! Happy new Year!
I could read only 95 books. But that's ok. I was in a reading slump for more than four months.
Happy New Year to you and your family. Have a great reading year in 2011!!!
Here are my Best Reads of 2010.
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