My Worst of 2011

When I leave the library, I usually have two cloth bags bulging with books.  Some of these will get replaced in the bag after I have read to page three.  Those rejects are not on this list.  But sometimes I am lured along, and later wonder, what was I thinking?  This happened seven times this year.  Here is my personal disappointment list.

The Sentamentalists by Joanna Skinrud I said it all on this blog elsewhere.  This book is blurble. Why did it win the Giller?  The committee must have been stoned.

 Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson.  Awful title but, in a creepy way, apt.. Murder after murder.  Man murders a mother and two children out of the blue.  Husband murders three people at a birthday party. Comes back and terrorizes his family and then kills himself but first kills a policeman.   Jackson, the detective, has a sister murdered and brother who hung himself.  Reggie’s mother drowns. Her teacher friend dies in a car crash that causes a train wreck and kills 15 people.  The original killer commits suicide.  The kidnapped doctor murders her two kidnappers.  The good news?  Not so much.