|1. Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare|2. Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver|3. Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser - Clarisse Thorn|4. The Ethical Slut - Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy|

1. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

3. Fight Club

4. Friends with Kids

5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

6. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

7. Snatch

8. Blow

9. Trainspotting

10. Mall Rats

11. Man on a Ledge

|1. Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld|2. Behemoth - Scott Westerfeld|3. Sapphistries - Leila Rupp|4. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare|5. A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood|6. City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare|7. City of Glass - Cassandra Clare|8. City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare|9. The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan|10. The Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare|11. Delirium - Lauren Oliver|12. The Awakening - L.J. Smith|13. Matched - Ally Condie|14. Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|15. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan and Jesse Burns|16. Fallen - Lauren Kate|17. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness|18. Witch Eyes - Scott Tracey|19. The Ask and The Answer - Patrick Ness|

Books
|A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Dispatches from the Edge - Anderson Cooper|The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Deerskin - Robin McKinley|When You Don't See Me - Timothy James Beck|The Boy in the Lake - Eric Swanson|A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick|Wake - Lisa McMann|Fade - Lisa McMann|Gone - Lisa McMann|Gone - Michael Grant|The Fig Eater - Jody Shields|Uglies - Scott Westerfeld|Pretties - Scott Westerfeld|Specials - Scott Westerfeld|A Trace of Smoke - Rebecca Cantrell|Life, Over Easy - K.A. Mitchell|King Lear - William Shakespeare|The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins|Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami (Translated by Philip Gabriel)|Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins|Endgame and Act Without Words I - Samuel Beckett|Rosaura a laz Diez - Marco Denevi|Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins|The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman|

Final Count: 25 Books

Short Stories & Essays
|The Death of a Moth - Virginia Woolf|Transfiguration - Annie Dillard|Toys - Roland Barthes|Souls on Ice - Mark Doty|A Scandal in Bohemia - ACD|Into the Electronic Millennium - Sven Berkerts|The Read-Headed League - ACD|Late Victorians - Richard Rodriguez|A Case of Identity - ACD|The Loss of The Creature - Walker Percy|Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy - Judy Ruiz|On Discovery - Maxime Hong Kingston|First City - Jonathan Franzen|The Judgement of the Birds - Loren Eiseley|Questioning the Canon - Andrew Montalenti|My Father's Brain - Jonathan Franzen|Imperial Bedroom - Jonathan Franzen|Erika Imports - Jonathan Franzen|Sifting the Ashes - Jonathan Franzen|The Reader in Exile - Jonathan Franzen|Books in Bed - Jonathan Franzen|The Boscombe Valley Mystery - ACD|The Five Orange Pips - ACD|A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman|

Bold denotes a short story as opposed to an essay.

This fanmix is an ode to Dean Winchester. Because I love him. I'm not too sure if the song choices will make sense to anyone who isn't me though. The songs are vaguely chronological, although they get a bit tangled in the middle, but lets just say the last few songs are definitely about Swan Song and the year between that and Exile on Main Street. Some songs are specific, like Clean Getaway and In Our Bedroom After the War and others are more general, like I Want Blood. Some are both, like I Don't Want to Die (In The Hospital) which reminded me of "Faith" in season one, where Dean refuses to remain in the hospital even when he believes he's going to die, but also reminds me generally of season 3. Some songs are just about Dean's general enjoyment of what he does earlier in the series (Fair Game) and others are darker as his burdens grow heavier (Help I'm Alive and I'm Dying). But most of all, it's a Dean mix, his personality, his trials and tribulations, his love for his family.



( Desperate (A Little Delusional) )

Book number 3 of the year, and second of Sherlock Holmes:

The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"'For me' said Sherlock Holmes, 'there still remains the cocaine-bottle.' And he stretched his long white hand up for it."

|A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Dispatches from the Edge - Anderson Cooper|The Sign of the Four - ACD|

I'm not sure if I should be including short stories and essays in these. I mean, I intend to read the Sherlock Holmes short stories, and I feel like its a legitimate thing to record, so I shall, but separately from the books:

|The Death of a Moth - Virginia Woolf|Transfiguration - Annie Dillard|Toys - Roland Barthes|Souls on Ice - Mark Doty|

Book number two:

Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper

This was a really great book, even if it could at times be a little repetitive. It really puts thing in perspective. The stories about malnutrition in Niger and Somali were pretty hard to swallow. The chapters about Katrina, however, are particularly striking.

"I've always thought that New Year's Eve is proof that human beings are essentially optimistic creatures. Despite hundreds of years of pathetic parties and hellish hangovers, we continue to cling to the notion that it's possible to have fun on that night. It's not. There's too much pressure, too many expectations, too few bathrooms."

"'We look at each other with maybe too much hubris and say, "This is America, this doesn't happen here,"' Dr. Henderson says, sitting with me amid a pile of rubbish on the curb outside the Convention Center. 'This is disgraceful. This is a national disgrace. Nowhere in this country should that ever have to happen again. But unless we learn from this, it's going to be very ugly 'cause it's going to happen again.'"

|A Study in Scarlet|Dispatches From the Edge|

I am determined to read more this year. Determined! Thus, meme posts! Obviously. I'm going to record the books I read this year, starting with the first:

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm.......probably not going to review them. Or at least not all of them. And even those I do probably not very well or very articulately.

"As the weeks went by, my interest in him and my curiosity as to his aims in life, gradually deepened and increased. His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer. In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller."

"I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever came across: a study in scarlet, eh?"

|A Study in Scarlet|

Fuck you Ryan Ross.