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SusannaG

SusannaG - Confessions of a Crazy Cat Lady

Just another GR refugee.  Other than that, I had a stroke in 2004, and read almost anything I can get my hands on, though I have a particular weakness for history, mystery, and historical fiction.

Currently reading

Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson
Progress: 6 %
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong
Progress: 40 %
Wizard's First Rule
Terry Goodkind
Progress: 49 %
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Tracy Borman
Progress: 14 %
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski
Progress: 20 %
The Hanover Square Affair
Ashley Gardner
Progress: 10 %
Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
Beth Archer Brombert, Massimo Montanari
Progress: 10 %
Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
Holger Hoock
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Progress: 9 %
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
John Guy
Progress: 20/512 pages

Earworms: 2006

It is 2006.

 

The Rolling Stones perform a free concert for two million people in Rio.  Bon Jovi goes country.  Taylor Swift is sixteen, and also a country artist; her first single, Tim McGraw, is a top-ten country hit, and cracks the US Top 40.  In the UK, Top of the Pops goes off the air, ending a 42-year run.  Tower Records declares bankruptcy for a second time, and is liquidated.  Closing of legendary New York City nightclub CBGB, the birthplace of punk and new wave, due to a rent dispute. 

 

Big hits: Bad Day (Daniel Powter), Laffy Taffy (D4L), Grillz (Nelly featuring Wall Paul, Ali & Gipp), Check on It (Beyonce featuring Bun B and Slim Thug), You're Beautiful (James Blount), So Sick (Ne-Yo), Temperature (Sean Paul), Ridin' (Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone), SOS (Rihanna), Promiscuous (Nelly Furtado featuring Wyclef Jean), Hips Don't Lie (Shakira featuring Wyclef John), Do I Make You Proud (Taylor Hicks), London Bridge (Fergie), SexyBack (Justin Timberlake), Money Maker (Ludacris featuring Pharrell), My Love (Justin Timberlake featuring T.T.), Irreplaceable (Beyonce), Unwritten (Natasha Beddingfield), Shake That (Eminem featuring Nate Dogg), What Hurts the Most (Rascal Flatts), Unfaithful (Rihanna), Life is a Highway (Rascal Flatts), I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Panic! at the Disco), Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol), White & Nerdy (Weird Al Yankovic), and Wind It Up (Gwen Stefani).