Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Monday, February 3, 2014
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
2012 Top Ten Movies
The Top Ten Money Making Movies of 2012
10 - Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
(216,391,482.00)
9 - Ted
(218,665,740.00)
8 - The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey
(228,693,000)
7 - Brave
(237,259,580)
6 - The Amazing Spider-Man
(262,030,663)
5 - The Twilight Saga : Breaking Dawn Part 2
(256,433,000)
4 - Skyfall
(289,600,000)
3 - The Hunger Games
(408,010,692)
2 - The Dark Knight Rises
(448,139,099)
1 - The Avengers
(623,357,910)
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Saturday, December 22, 2012
New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 12/23/2012
NY Times Bestseller List
Fiction
Week Ending December 23rd 2012
10 - The Last Man - Vince Flynn (4 weeks on list)
9 - Winter of the World - Ken Follett (12 weeks)
8 - Agenda 21 - Glen Beck w/Harriet Parke (3 weeks)
7 - The Black Box - Michael Connelly (2 weeks)
6 - Merry Christmas, Alex Cross - James Patterson (4 weeks)
5 - The Forgotten - David Baldacci (3 weeks)
4 - Notorious Nineteen - Janet Evanovich (3 weeks)
3 - The Racketeer - John Grisham (7 weeks)
2 - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (27 weeks)
1 - Threat Vector - Tom Clancy w/Mark Greaney
(DEBUT)
As China threatens to invade Taiwan, the covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. aids his father's administration - but his agency is no longer secret.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 12/16/2012
New York Times Bestseller List
Fiction
Week Ending December 16th 2012
10 - The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling (10 weeks on list)
9 - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (26 weeks)
8 - The Last Man - Vince Flynn (3 weeks)
7 - Merry Christmas, Alex Cross - James Patterson (3 weeks)
6 - Agenda 21 - Glenn Beck and Harriet Parke (2 weeks)
A girl begins to question the authorities who run the Republic, the totalitarian successor to the United States created by the U.N.
5 - The Racketeer - John Grisham (6 weeks)
4 - The Forgotten - David Baldacci (2 weeks)
The military investigator John Puller, the protagonist of "Zero Day", probes his aunt's mysterious death in Florida.
3 - Notorious Nineteen - Janet Evanovich
The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tracks down a con man who disappeared from a hospital.
2 - The Black Box - Michael Connelly
(Debut)
In a case that spans 20 years, the Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links the bullets from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the race riots.
1 - Cold Days - Jim Butcher
(Debut)
Harry Dresden lives, but he's no longer Chicago's only professional wizard. Now he's the Winter Knight, Queen Mab's assassin, and she wants her newest minion to pull off the impossible: kill an immortal.
Friday, November 30, 2012
New York Times Bestseller List NonFiction 12/01/2012
NY Times Bestseller List Top Ten
Non Fiction
Week Ending December 1st 2012
10 - The Outpost - Jake Tapper
(Debut)
The story of a deadly Taliban attack on a remote American outpost in Afghanistan in 2009, sheds light on the war.
9 - Far From The Tree - Andrew Solomon
(Debut)
The difficulties and triumphs of families dealing with exceptional children.
8 - The Last Lion - William Manchester and Paul Reid (3 weeks on list)
7 - The Joy of Hate - Greg Gutfeld
(Debut)
The Fox News Channel host denounces liberal double standards and intolerance masquerading as tolerance.
6 - The Signal and The Noise - Nate Silver (7 weeks)
5 - How To Create a Mind - Ray Kurzweil
(Debut)
A new theory of how the thinking part of the brain works can help us create more intelligent matches.
4 - No Easy Day - Mark Owen (11 weeks)
3 - Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (60 weeks)
2 - Thomas Jefferson - Jon Meacham
(Debut)
The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist celebrates Jefferson's skills as a practical politician.
1 - Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(7 consecutive weeks on list and at #1)
New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 12/02/2012
NY Times Bestseller List Top Ten
Fiction
Week Ending December 2nd 2012
10 - Crossroads - William Paul Young
(Debut)
A comatose businessman encounters Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God and learns to see through the eyes of others; the author of "The Shack".
9 - The Panter - Nelson DeMille (5 weeks on list)
8 - The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling (8 weeks)
7 - Poseidon's Arrow - Clive and Dirk Cussler (2 weeks)
6 - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (24 weeks)
5 - Flight Behavior - Barbara Kingsolver (2 weeks)
4 - Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
(Debut)
A British woman working for MI5 in 1972 falls in love with a writer the service is clandestinely supporting.
3 - The Racketeer - John Grisham (4 weeks)
(4 weeks at #1)
2 - Merry Christmas, Alex Cross - James Patterson
(Debut)
Detective Alex Cross confronts both a hostage situation and a terrorist act at Christmas.
1 - The Last Man - Vince Flynn
(Debut)
The counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp searches for a missing C.I.A. asset amid treachery in
Afghanistan.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
NY Times Bestseller List November 18th 2012
New York Times Bestseller List - Non Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending November 18th 2012
10 - NYPD Red - James Patterson and Marshall Karp (4 weeks on list)
9 - Iced - Karen Marie Moning
(Debut)
The first book in a new urban paranormal trilogy set in the world of the Fever series features Dani O'Malley.
8 - The Winter of The World - Ken Follett (7 weeks)
7 - The Bone Bed - Patricia Cornwell (3 weeks)
6 - A Winter Dream - Richard Paul Evans
(Debut)
When Joseph Jacobson stands to be anointed heir to his father's agency, his 12 brothers cast him out.
5 - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (22 weeks)
4 - The Panther - Nelson DeMille (3 weeks)
3 - The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling (6 weeks)
2 - The Sins of the Mother - Danielle Steel
(Debut)
An enormously successful businesswoman tries to make up for past failings with her children, now grown.
1 - The Racketeer - John Grisham
(2nd week on list and 2nd consecutive week at #1)
Malcolm Bannister, an imprisoned ex-lawyer, knows who murdered a federal judge. He conconcts a scheme to exchange this information for his freedom.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
NY Times Bestseller List - Non Fiction 11/11/2012
New York Times Bestseller List
Non Fiction
Week Ending November 11th 2012
10 - Plutocrats - Chrystia Freeland (2nd week on list)
The lives of the global elites in the wealthiest 0.1 percent and the consequences of increasing income stratification.
9 - America Again - Stephen Colbert (4th week)
8 - How Children Succeed - Paul Tough (8th week)
7 - Makeup To Breakup - Peter Criss with Larry Sloman
(Debut)
The Kiss drummer reflects on his life in rock
6 - Proof of Heaven - Eben Alexander
(Debut)
A neurosurgeon recounts his near death experience during a coma from bacterial meningitis.
5 - The Signal and The Noise - Nate Silver (4th week)
An examination of predictions, the ones that come true and the ones that don't.
4 - Rod - Rod Stewart
(Debut)
The pop singer reminisces on his long career
3 - Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (57th week)
2 - No Easy Day - Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer (8th week)
1 - Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(4th consecutive week at #1)
New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 11/11/2012
NY Times Bestseller List
Fiction
Week Ending November 11th 2012
10 - Winter of the World - Ken Follett (6 weeks on list)
9 - Angels at the Table - Debbie Macomber
(Debut)
Angels cook up a plan to reunite a young couple
8 - NYPD Red - James Patterson and Marshall Karp (3rd week)
Detective Zach Jordan and his beautiful partner must stop a deranged killer who has targeted a glittering New York film festival
7 - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (21st week)
6 - The Bone Bed - Patricia Cornwell (2nd week)
A paleontologist's disappearance in Canada turns out to be connected to crimes much closer to home for the chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta
The 20th Scarpetta book.
5 - The Bridge - Karen Kingsbury
(Debut)
The destruction of a beloved bookstore offers the shop's supporters second chances on love and leases.
4 - Back To Blood - Tom Wolfe
(Debut)
A Cuban-American cop is a hero turned pariah in Miami, where ethnic and class tensions threaten to explode.
3 - The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling (5th week)
2 - The Panther - Nelson DeMille (2nd week)
(last week's #1)
The anti-terrorist task force agent John Corey and his wife, an FBI agent, pursue a high ranking Al Qaeda operative.
1 - The Racketeer - John Grisham
(DEBUT)
Malcolm Bannister, an imprisoned ex-lawyer, knows who murdered a federal judge. And he concocts a scheme to exchange this information for his freedom.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
New York Times Bestseller List - NonFiction October 21st 2012
NY Times Bestseller List - Non Fiction
Week Ending October 21st 2012
10 - Into The Fire - Dakota Meyer and Bing West (2nd week on list)
A Medal of Honor winner's first hand account of a crucial battler in the Afghan war.
9 - The Price of Politics - Bob Woodward (4 weeks on list)
Inside the debt-ceiling negotiations of 2011.
8 - Mugged - Ann Coulter (2nd week on list)
The political commentator traces racial demagoguery from the 1970s to the present.
7 - How Children Succeed - Paul Tough (5 weeks on list)
6 - Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (54th week on list)
5 - Waging Heavy Peace - Neil Young (2nd week on list)
The rocker's memoir ranges over his personal life and his music.
4 - Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzeneggar w/Peter Petre
(Debut)
A memoir by the actor, a former body builder and California Governor.
3 - American Again - Stephen Colbert
(Debut)
The mock pundit of Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" tells how to bring America back from the brink.
2 - No Easy Day - Mark Owen w/Kevin Maurer (5 weeks on list)
An account by a former member of the Navy SEALS of the mission that killed bin Laden.
1 - Killing Kennedy - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(Debut)
Recounting the events surrounding the assasssination of President John F. Kennedy
New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 10/21/2012
NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction
Week Ending October 21st 2012
10 - This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz (4 weeks on list)
9 - Phantom - Jo Nesbo
(Debut)
The Oslo detective Harry Hole returns after three years away to find the social fabric in tatters.
8 - Live By Night - Dennis Lehane
(Debut)
A South Boston punk becomes a Florida crime boss
7 - Dark Storm - Christine Feehan
(Debut)
In the 23rd book in the Dark Series, the Carpathian Dax fights a vampire and meets his life mate.
6 - A Wanted Man - Lee Child (4 weeks on list)
5 - The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom (5 weeks on list)
4 - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (18 weeks on list)
3 - Winter of the World - Ken Follett (3 weeks on list)
2 - Mad River - John Sanford
(Debut)
Virgil Flowers joins the hunt for a teenage Bonnie and Clyde.
1 - The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
(2nd consecutive week at #1)
Monday, October 15, 2012
New York Times Best Seller List - Fiction October 14th 2012
The Top Ten Bestselling Novels on the NY Times Bestseller List
Fiction
Week Ending October 14th 2012
10 - Rapture - J.R. Ward
(Debut)
After a man stumbles in front of the reporter Mels Carmichael's car, both find they're in over their heads; a Fallen Angels novel.
9 - Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon (3rd week on list)
8 - Zoo - James Patterson (4th week on list)
7 - Low Pressure - Sandra Brown (2nd week on list)
A woman makes disturbing discoveries and acquires a stalker, when she writes a book about her sister's murder.
6 - This is How You Loser Her - Junot Diaz (3rd week on list)
5 - The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom (4th week on list)
4 - A Wanted Man - Lee Child (3rd week on list)
3 - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (17 weeks on list)
2 - Winter of the World - Ken Follett
(2nd week on list and last weeks #1)
In Book 2 of the Century trilogy, members of five interrelated families from five countries grapple with the tumultuous historical events of the years 1939-1949.
1 - The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
(DEBUT)
The sudden death of a parish councilman reveals bitter social divisions in an idyllic English town;
a novel for adults by the creator of Harry Potter.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
New York Times Bestseller List NonFiction 09/30/2012
NY Times Bestseller List NonFiction
Week ending September 30th 2012
(click on title to get it at Amazon)
10 - The Revenge of Geography - Robert D. Kaplan
(Debut)
Predicting the next cycle of conflict on the basis of temperature and topography.
9 - How Children Succeed - Paul Tough (2nd week on list)
The author argues that the qualities that matter most have to do with character, not intelligence.
8 - Wild - Cheryl Strayed (22 weeks on list)
A Woman's account of a life changing 1,100 mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
7 - Mortality - Christopher Hitchens (3 weeks on list)
Reports and reflections on his illness and impending death by the writer, who died in December 2011.
6 - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand (96 weeks on list)
An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his bomber went down over the Pacific.
5 - The Amateur - Edward Klein (18 weeks on list)
A journalist argues that President Obama is unable to lead.
4 - Obama's America - Dinesh D'Souza (5 weeks on list)
An arguement that President Obama is the architect of American decline.
3 - Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (51 weeks on list)
The host of the O'Reilly Factor recounts the events surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
2 - The Price of Politics - Bob Woodward
(Debut)
Inside the debt-ceiling negotations of 2011 with the Washington Post journalist.
1 - No Easy Day - Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
(2nd consecutive week at #1 and on the list)
An account by a former member of the Navy SEALs team, written pseudonymously of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.
New York Times Bestseller List Fiction September 30th 2012
Top 10 Novels on the NY Times Bestseller list for Fiction
Week ending September 30th 2012
(click on the title to get it at Amazon.com)
10 - Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice - Michael Brandman
(Debut)
Jesse Stone, the chief of police in Paradise, Mass., deals with the arrest of a troubled movie star;
a continuation of the series by Parker who died in 2010
9 - The Tombs - Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry (2nd week on list)
Sam and Remi Fargo, a husband and wife treasure hunting team, search for the tomb of Atilla the Hun.
8 - Frozen Heat - Richard Castle
(Debut)
The NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat investigates the case of a woman whose body is found in a freezer.
7 - Zoo - James Patterson (2nd week on list)
A young biologist warns world leaders about the reasons for escalating animal attacks on cities.
6 - This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
(Debut)
Stories of love, loss and family history from a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist.
5 - Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon
(Debut)
Fathers and sons in Berkeley and Oakland, California.
4 - Delusion in Death - J.D. Robb
(Debut)
Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a mass delusion at a bar her husband owns; by Nora Roberts.
3 - The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom (2nd week on list)
(Last week's #1)
A fable about the inventor of the world's first clock, who returns to our world after centuries of banishment.
2 - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (15th week on list)
1 - A Wanted Man - Lee Child
(Debut)
A carload of people involved in a conspiracy pick up a disheveled hitchhiker.
In Case You Missed It
For many years I have had a fascination with all things Japan and especially wrestling but also for the ancient sport of sumo wrestling.
This week was a special week in the world of sumo with the elevation of the 70th Yokozuna, the highest rank one can achieve in sumo. The 70th Yokozuna is mongolina born, Harumafuji Kohei. He is the 3rd consecutive mongolian born wrestler and 5th overall foreign born wrestler to attain this exalted rank.
Harumafuji qualified for consideration for promotion to Yokozuna by winning 2 successive tournaments or honbasho. He had done this twice before but wasnt elevated, this time after winning the Nagoya Basho (July tournament) and Aki Basho (September tournament) while going undefeated in both. These Basho's last 15 days and the elite wrestlers compete once a day. Harumafuji defeated Hakuho in the final day of both tournaments.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
New York Times Bestseller List - NonFiction September 16th 2012
New York Times Non Fiction Bestseller List
Week Ending September 16th 2012
The Top 10
10 - American Sniper - Chris Kyle (20 weeks on list)
9 - The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg (25 weeks)
8 - Dearie - Bob Spitz (4 weeks)
7 - Double Cross - Ben Macintyre (5 weeks)
6 - The Amateur - Edward Klein (16 weeks)
5 - Paterno - Joe Posnanski (2 weeks)
(last weeks #1)
4 - Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (49 weeks)
3 - Wild - Cheryl Strayed (20 weeks)
2 - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand (94 weeks)
1 - Obama's America - Dinesh D'Souza
(1st week at #1 and 3rd week on list)
An argument that President Obama is the architect of American decline.
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