Sunday, January 01, 2012

Viewing List: 2006-2009 (haven't kept up too well!)


  • Sherlock Holmes: last movie of 2009
  • Operation Condor
  • A Fistful of Dollars
  • The Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • (500) Days of Summer
  • Two Lovers
  • Duplicity
  • Doubt
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Away We Go!
  • The Soloist
  • Frost/Nixon
  • Up!
  • Who Does She Think She Is?
  • The Holiday
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • As Good as it Gets
  • Coraline
  • Iron Man
  • In Bruges
  • Talladaga Nights: the Legend of Jimmy Bobby
  • Twilight
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
  • Mad Money
  • Tropic Thunder
  • Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
  • Get Smart
  • P.S., I Love You
  • Cherry Blossoms
  • I am Legend
  • Wall-E
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  • The Forbidden Kingdom
  • The Squid and the Whale
  • Persepolis
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Bee Movie
  • Enchanted
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • The Golden Compass
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Miss Potter
  • Dreamgirls
  • Dan in Real Life
  • Stardust
  • Hairspray
  • Fracture
  • Waitress
  • Blades of Glory
  • Shrek III
  • In the Company of Women
  • The Last Mimzy
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Letters from Iwo Jima
  • The Simpsons Movie
  • Mad Hot Ballroom
  • Dodgeball
  • Valiant
  • Bridge to Terabithia
  • Flags of our Fathers
  • Silver City
  • Keeping Mum
  • Babel
  • Charlotte's Web (2006)
  • Madagascar
  • Hoodwinked
  • The Last King of Scotland
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • The Departed
  • Ella Enchanted
  • Beijing Bicycle
  • Prairie Home Companion

I think this is the 2010 list, approximately (48 books--or so)


  • A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (I'm guessing this was about the last book of 2010)
  • Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
  • Deerskin, Robin McKinley
  • Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
  • I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett
  • Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
  • This Lovely Life, Vicki Forman
  • The Underneath, Kathi Appelt
  • Triangle, Katherine Weber
  • Godmother, the Secret Cinderella Story, Carolyn Turgeon
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Green & Levithan
  • Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli
  • Fly By Night, Frances Hardinge
  • Marcelo in the Real World, Francisco X. Stork
  • Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
  • The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Philip Pullman
  • The Shadow Dragons, James A. Owen
  • The Indigo King, James A. Owen
  • The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
  • The Search for the Red Dragon, James A. Owen
  • The Lost Conspiracy, Frances Hardinge
  • The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
  • Starclimber, Kenneth Oppel
  • Skybreaker, Kenneth Oppel
  • Airborn, Kenneth Oppel
  • The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
  • Here, There Be Dragons, James A. Owen
  • The Necromancer, Michael Scott
  • The Sorceress, Michael Scott
  • The Magician, Michael Scott
  • Starlighter, Byron Davis
  • The Prophecy, Dawn Miller
  • The Glass Slipper, Eleanor Farjeon
  • The Secret Life of Prince Charming, Deb Caletti
  • Masterpiece, Elise Broach
  • My Life with the Lincolns, Gayle Brandeis
  • Tales of Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan
  • Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
  • The Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
  • Ash, Malinda Lo
  • The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
  • When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
  • A Critical History of French Children's Literature, Penny Brown
  • Storytime: Young Children's Literary Understanding in the Classroom, Lawrence R. Sipe
  • Children's Literature: A Reader's History, Seth Lerer
  • Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature, Leonard S. Marcus
  • The Hidden Adult: Defining Children's Literature, Perry Nodelman
  • Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture, Anita Clair Fellman