Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Viewing List, 2010-2011ish


  • 180 Degrees South (NYEve film--last of 2011)
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  • Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
  • Hugo
  • The Trip
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  • The Guard
  • Cowboys and Aliens
  • Tron (the original)
  • Captain America
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One
  • Dead Man
  • Jane Eyre (2011)
  • Burn After Reading
  • Tangled
  • The Ghostwriter
  • Milk
  • The King's Speech
  • The Wrestler (first of 2011)
  • True Grit
  • Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (last movie of 2010)
  • Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
  • Anastasia
  • Songcatcher
  • Steamboy
  • Cinderella Man
  • Chaplin
  • The Social Network
  • The Secret of Kells
  • Short Circuit
  • Get Low
  • Up in the Air
  • Man on Wire
  • Crazy Heart
  • Ponyo
  • The Kids Are All Right
  • Despicable Me
  • Please Give
  • Toy Story 3-D
  • The Women
  • Iron Man II
  • Shrek For Ever After 3-D
  • Alice in Wonderland 3-D
  • Avatar
  • Julie and Julia
  • Love, Actually
  • Across the Universe
  • The Italian Job

Reading List, 2011


  • Missing: A Memoir, Lindsay Harrison (last book of 2011: 45 books)
  • Blue Nights, Joan Didion
  • The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de Botton
  • Fly Trap, Frances Hardinge
  • The Year of the Rat, Grace Lin
  • The Year of the Dog, Grace Lin
  • A Monster Calls: Inspired by an Idea by Siobhan Dowd, Patrick Ness
  • The Bishop's Daughter, Honor Moore
  • American to the Backbone, Christopher L. Webber
  • Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, Nina Sankovich
  • The Anti-Romantic Child, Priscilla Gilman
  • A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness
  • The Woman Who Did, Grant Allen
  • Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
  • The Willoughbys, Lois Lowry
  • The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
  • The Absolute Value of Mike, Kathryn Erskine
  • Mockingbird, Kathryn Erskine
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
  • Room, Emma Donoghue
  • Little Bee, Chris Cleave
  • The Cookbook Collector, Allegra Goodman
  • Linger, Maggie Stiefvater
  • Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld
  • Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld
  • Huntress, Malinda Lo
  • Tithe, Holly Black
  • Beastly, Alex Flinn
  • Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes, Maureen Johnson
  • The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline Kelly
  • Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr
  • Jane Slayre, Charlotte Bronte and Sherri Browning Erwin
  • One of our Thursdays is Missing, Jasper Fforde
  • Pictures of You, Caroline Leavitt
  • The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown
  • Let's Take the Long Way Home, Gail Caldwell
  • The Seduction of Water Carol Goodman
  • Battle Hymn of the TIger Mother, Amy Chua
  • Sisters Red, Jackson Pearce
  • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin
  • The Season of Second Chances, Diane Meier
  • The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly
  • Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness
  • The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness (somewhere in here was the first book of 2011)