2010 was a great year for music, literature, and TV. Here's my take on the year.28+ MG, YA or adult fiction books read:
BEST: Hunger Games trilogy (hard to choose; I read so many great books this year!)
Here is my incomplete list
(Note to self: start a word document in January and add books as you read them.)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Brixton Brothers The Case of the Case by Mac Barnett
Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead, Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvator
Beautiful Creatures
Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Ramona Quimby Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Frindle, The Janitor's Boy, The Report Card, and Lost and Found by Andrew Clements
Linger by Maggie Stiefvator
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
Fat Vampire by Adam Rex
Scholastic Candy Apple middle grade series (Miss Popularity, How To Be a Girly Girl in Just Ten Days, The Boy Next Door, The Accidental Cheerleader)
Allie Finkle’s Rules For Girls: Moving Day and The New Girl by Meg Cabot
Late, Late at Night by Rick Springfield
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Navel of the World by PJ Hoover
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
17+ MOVIES WATCHED
4 In theater (Avatar, Despicable Me, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One, Gulliver's Travels)
14+ on DVD
BEST: The Blind Side
8 TV SHOWS DVRed per week
BEST: True Blood
The Soup, True Blood, Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives, Tosh.0, Community, The Young and the Restless (Though many of these I catch up on episodes in the summer, and I watch Y&R maybe once every few weeks)
8 CONCERTS ATTENDED
BEST: Rockstar Uproar (my son's first concert) and MCR and 30stm (actually all concerts were awesome, but most special is definitely the one with my son!)
JET, 30 Seconds to Mars/Neon Trees, Q101 Jamboree (Janus, Saliva, Puddle of Mudd, Papa Roach, Seether, Three Days Grace), Papa Roach, Rockstar Uproar (Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour, New Medicine), Papa Roach, Billy Idol/Slash, My Chemical Romance
84 BLOG POSTS
Biggest number of hits: How Writing is Like Dancing and Top Ten TV Shows Blogfest
MY TOP TEN SONGS OF 2010
Honorable mention pop song: "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz
10. "Welcome to the Family" by Avenged Sevenfold
9. "All Night Long" by Buckcherry
8. "Your Betrayal" by Bullet for My Valentine
7. "Laid" by New Medicine
6. "Animal" by Neon Trees
5. "Nightmare" by Avenged Sevenfold
4. "Closer to the Edge" by 30 Seconds to Mars
3. "Say You'll Haunt Me" by Stone Sour
2. "Na Na Na" by My Chemical Romance
1. "Kick in the Teeth" by Papa Roach
What was your favorite book, TV show, movie, and song of the year?
Today's Tune for Tuesday, my number 5 pick for the year by A7X (PG13 vid):
