end of year lists

I thought I would do more reading this year - but...

Here is the list of everything I read for the first time this year:

Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Lolita by Vladimir Navokov
American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever
The Pilgrims Progress -part I by John Bunyan
April Witch by Majgull Axelsson
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes and Make-Believe Violence by Gerard Jones
The Last Lecture by Randy Pauch
The Viewpoints Book by Anne Bogart
The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim
Nightlight - Harvard Lampoon
Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Shakespeare: A very short introduction by Germaine Greer
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austin
The Odyssey by Homer
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larrson
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Stanislavsky: An Introduction by Jean Benedetti
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Stream of Life by Clarice Lispector
In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of speed by Carl Honore
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon (ok - parts of it)
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy MaMaude Montgomery
Passionate Minds by David Bodanis

We read a lot of chapter books to the kid this year - including six in the IVY AND BEAN series and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.


On the film front, this year I discovered the joy that is Netflix Instant Play!

Movies 2010
District 9 (Blueray)
Monsters vs Aliens (blueray)
Volver (blueray)
Choke (HBO)
Shopgirl (DVD)
Cool Hand Luke (netflix instant play)
Inglourious Bastards (DVD)
Brothers (DVD)
Food, Inc (netflix instant play)
Sherlock Holmes (theatre)
Year of the Dog (DVD)
Away we go (blueray)
Inkheart (hbo)
Up in the air (blueray)
Men Who Stare at Goats (blueray)
Nine (animated/blueray)
Wolverine (HBO)
Midsummer Nights Dream (1999 version)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Hbo)
Ponyo (DVD)
La Ronde (DVD)
Twelfh night (DVD)
Fanny and Alexander (netflix instant play)
Julie and Julia (netflix instant play)
Clash of the Titans (blueray)
Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue (blueray)
Nine (blueray)
Toy Story 3 (theatre)
My Neighbor Totoro (DVD)
How to Train Your Dragon (blueray)
The Imagination of Dr. Parnassus (netflix instant play)
The virgin Spring (netflix instant play)
Tangled (theatre)
Hot Tub Time Machine (DVD)
Date Night (DVD)
The Swan Princess (Netflix)

With the netflix - I started watching "Battlestar Gallactica" and just an insane amount of cartoons with the kid.