Books read in 2013

Between Here and April, Deborah Copaken Kogan
Bleed for Me, Michael Robotham
The Making of a Royal Romance, Katie Nicholl 
Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II, Philip Eade
The Black Box, Michael Connelly
The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Drowning House, Elizabeth Black
Killing Kennedy, Bill O'Reilly
Argo, Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond, Jane Maas
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder, Jay Margolis 
Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, Mike Campbell
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Stephen Rebello
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan
Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff
Top of the Morning, Brian Stelter
A Private Disgrace: Lizze Borden by Daylight, Victoria Lincoln
Iron War: Dave Scott, Mark Allen and the Greatest Race Ever Run, Matt Fitzgerald
Waiting to be Heard, Amanda Knox
Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace, Scott Thorson & Alex Thorleifson
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder, Charles Graeber
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story, Lily Koppel
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America, Christian Wolmar
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall, Will Ellsworth-Jones 
Detroit City Is the Place to Be, Mark Binelli 
Wreck of the Wabash, Laurie C. Dickens  
Hidden History of Detroit, Amy Elliott Bragg
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Kate: The Biography, Marcia Moody
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Piper Kerman
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, Gordon Young
This Town, Mark Leibovich
City of Scoundrels, Gary Krist
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, Sam Roberts
The Princess Diana Conspiracy, Alan Power  
The Shadow King; The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy, Jo Marchant
Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand
Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, Stephen Manes
Reclaiming Parkland, Jame DiEugenio
Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels, Jill Jonnes 
JFK Has Been Shot, Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D
Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha, Lesley Downer
Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service, James McCommons
End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, James Swanson
The Men Who Loved Trains, Rush Loving
With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of J.D. Tippit, Dale K. Myers

Currently Reading: JFK: The Smoking Gun, Colin McLaren

Bowl selection Sunday

Raleigh News & Observer/Chuck Liddy

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Bowl season is just a few weeks away. The Bowl selections took place yesterday.

Michigan Wolverines will be playing Kansas State Wildcats on December 28 in the Buffalo Wild Wings bowl in Phoenix, Arizona. The BWW Bowl is the most exciting bowl, but at least Michigan will be playing in a bowl game.

Another team I would like to see do well in their bowl game is Duke Blue Devils. They were defeated Saturday by a better Florida State Seminoles team in the ACC Championship game. Florida State won 45-7. Duke will be playing Texas A&M Aggies in the Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta, Georgia on December 31.

Six other Big Ten teams will be playing in a bowl games too. The other teams playing in games are Minnesota vs Syracuse in the Texas Bowl in Houston, Texas on December 27; Nebraska vs Georgia in the Gator Bowl on January 1, 2014 in Jacksonville, Florida; LSU vs Iowa in the Outback Bowl on January 1 in Tampa, Florida; Wisconsin vs South Carolina in the Capital One Bowl on January 1 in Orlando, Florida, Michigan State vs Stanford in the Rose Bowl on January 1 in Pasadena, California and Ohio State vs Clemson on January 3 in the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.

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Books read in 2013

Between Here and April, Deborah Copaken Kogan
Bleed for Me, Michael Robotham
The Making of a Royal Romance, Katie Nicholl 
Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II, Philip Eade
The Black Box, Michael Connelly
The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Drowning House, Elizabeth Black
Killing Kennedy, Bill O'Reilly
Argo, Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond, Jane Maas
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder, Jay Margolis 
Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, Mike Campbell
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Stephen Rebello
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan
Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff
Top of the Morning, Brian Stelter
A Private Disgrace: Lizze Borden by Daylight, Victoria Lincoln
Iron War: Dave Scott, Mark Allen and the Greatest Race Ever Run, Matt Fitzgerald
Waiting to be Heard, Amanda Knox
Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace, Scott Thorson & Alex Thorleifson
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder, Charles Graeber
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story, Lily Koppel
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America, Christian Wolmar
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall, Will Ellsworth-Jones 
Detroit City Is the Place to Be, Mark Binelli 
Wreck of the Wabash, Laurie C. Dickens  
Hidden History of Detroit, Amy Elliott Bragg
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Kate: The Biography, Marcia Moody
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Piper Kerman
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, Gordon Young
This Town, Mark Leibovich
City of Scoundrels, Gary Krist
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, Sam Roberts
The Princess Diana Conspiracy, Alan Power  
The Shadow King; The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy, Jo Marchant
Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand
Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, Stephen Manes
Reclaiming Parkland, Jame DiEugenio
Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels, Jill Jonnes 
JFK Has Been Shot, Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D
Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha, Lesley Downer
Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service, James McCommons
End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, James Swanson
The Men Who Loved Trains, Rush Loving

Currently Reading: With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of J.D. Tippit, Dale K. Myers

Ohio State vs Michigan

Detroit Free Press/Kirthmon F. Dozier

That photo says it all.

Michigan's Devin Gardner was in tears while meeting Ohio State's Braxton Miller on the field after losing 42-41 Saturday at Michigan Stadium.

Michigan scored a touchdown with 32 seconds left making the score 42-41. They could have kicked an extra point to tie the game and go into overtime. Michigan decided to go for two-point conversion to win the game. Gardner threw the ball into coverage and it was picked off.

Michigan finished the regular season 7-5 overall and 3-5 in the Big Ten. Michigan will find out which bowl game they will be heading to on Sunday, December 8 on ESPN during the Bowl Selection Show. Ohio State finished the regular season 12-0 and 8-0 in the Big Ten. Ohio State will play Michigan State Saturday, December 7 in the Big Ten Championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.