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The The Girl With the Tattoo, Stieg Larsson. This is the first book in the Millennium Trilogy. I’ve heard a lot of great things about the books and the Swedish movies based on the books. Now, they’re coming out with an American version of the first movie. This book was nothing like I was expecting. For some reason I was expecting fantasy, but it’s actually a mystery/thriller. The fact that it wasn’t what I was expecting might be why it took a while to get into it, but after a while I had trouble putting it down for long. It has 2 separate storylines that ended up coming together. I know some people had problems with that, but I thought it was cool. I definitely recommend it.

The Walking Dead Vols. 5 & 6, Robert Kirkman. I’m still slowly working my way through this series. These 2 volumes were great. They were a change of pace from what I had seen recently, and I enjoyed them.

I’ve started on 3 or 4 other books. I can’t seem to focus on 1 for too long before something else comes along. Right now I’m focusing on A Dance With Dragons. My goal for this year was to read 15 books and Goodreads says that so far I’ve read 11 if you count the Walking Dead volumes. It looks like I’m going to hit that goal.

• Last Argument of Kings, Joe Abercrombie
• Awakening, Kate Chopin
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
• Go, Mutants: A Novel, Larry Doyle
• Serenity Found, Jane Espenson
• Incarceron, Catherine Fisher
• Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks, Mick Foley
• The Associate, John Grisham
• Ford County, John Grisham
• The Fourth Hand, John Irving
• The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller, Henry James
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemison
• The Walking Dead, Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 4: The Heart’s Desire, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 5: The Best Defense, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 6: This Sorrowful Life, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 7: The Calm Before, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 8: Made to Suffer, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 9: Here We Remain, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 10: What We Become, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 11: Fear the Hunters, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 12: Life Among Them, Robert Kirkman
• The Walking Dead, Volume 13: Too Far Gone, Robert Kirkman
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest, Stieg Larsson
• The Stormcaller, Tom Lloyd
• I Am Number Four, Pittacus Lore
• The Giver, Lois Lowry
• The Day Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
• The Twilight Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
• The Final Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
• Busted Flush, George R.R. Martin
• Suicide Kings, George R.R. Martin
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
• Batman: Year One, Frank Miller
• Either You’re in or You’re in the Way, Logan and Noah Miller
• The Final Crusade, Chaite Naasiri
• The Darker Mask, George Phillips
• The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson
• The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson
• The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson
• Towers of Midnight, Brandon Sanderson
• A Memory of Light, Brandon Sanderson
• Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare
• Private Parts, Howard Stern
• The Way of Shadows, Brent Weeks
• Shadow’s Edge, Brent Weeks
• Beyond the Shadows, Brent Weeks
• The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudory Welty
• The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams
• Stone of Farewell, Tad Williams
• To Green Angel Tower, Tad Williams
• Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1 – Unmanned, Brian K. Vaughan