Books 2010 - 2011
Here's the new list of books I've read:
The King's Fool
Plain Jane
The Stolen Crown
The Queen's Mistake
Nine Days a Queen by Ann Rinaldi (Author included because half the books about Jane Grey are named similarly)
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
The White Queen
The Red Queen (Reminding me just how much I hate Margaret Beaufort, despite her contribution to history)
No Other Will but His (DO NOT recommend. I'm considering going back through my copy and marking up all the terrible mistakes, editing and story telling, and sending it back to the publisher)
The Tudor Rose: The Story of the Queen who United a Kingdom and Birthed a Dynasty (Highly recommend)
The Emperor's Tomb
The Chicago Way
Mockingjay
The Red Pyramid
The Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero
Princess Academy
Capt. Hook
Godmother
Here Lies Arthur
Lamb: The Gospel accoring to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Some Girls (Such an amazing book! I definitely recommend it, as long as you can stand reading about the NY sex trade and life in a harem)
Shopaholic and Baby
Nanny Returns
The Magicians
American Gods
High Tea
The Time Traveler's Wife
In Progress:
Jane Boleyn
Dirk Gentley's Hollistic Detective Agency (by Douglas Adams, because he rocks)
I've also decided to take into account audio books I've been listening to during long days of job searching and long drives home and back.
Audio books:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Sea of Monsters
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Size 12 is not Fat
The Historian (22 discs, VERY long, but worth it)
The Undomestic Goddess
All American Girl
Lady Macbeth
And in another new segment, I've decided to list the movies I've been watching lately, as I have been watching a bunch of good ones thanks to the library here:
The Absolute Best:
The Brothers Bloom
Up (every time I watch this movie, I love it more. It is one of the best Disney ever made)
In Bruges
Slumdog Millionaire
Goodnight and Good Luck
Rachel Getting Married
Whip It
Death at a Funeral (The original British version)
An Education
The Rest (also really good, just not as good):
St. Trinians
The Princess and the Frog
Bottle Shock
August Rush (Tempted to put that in the absolute best column)
Pride & Prejudice
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
When in Rome
My Life in Ruins
Extract
Once Upon a Mattress
The Secret Life of Bees
Cadillac Records
The Lion in Winter
The Time Traveler's Wife (Can't tell if I like this better or worse than the book)
Wallis & Edward
Adam
WALL-E
The Good Guy
Valentine's Day
The Accidental Husband
New York, I Love You
Ballet Shoes (The one with Emma Watson - and really, I only saw most of it because the disc was messed up)
The Secret Life of Bees
I Capture the Castle (Henry Cavill is a hot piece)
Incendiary, aka Blown Apart (Ewan McGregor is also a hot piece, but this movie was a little confusing)
The Women (Surprisingly delightful, despite the lack of men)
He's Just Not That Into You
Mansfield Park
Up in the Air
Feast For Love (This movie, while not bad wasn't the most amazing or original I've ever seen, but it made me cry. It had all the right keys to human emotion in it.)
This is Spinal Tap (I had to finally see what the heck is so great about this movie. Aside from Bobbi Fleckman and the infamous "This one goes up to eleven" scene, there's really nothing.)
Luther
The Producers
The Phantom of the Opera
The Darjeeling Limited
Damn Yankees
Richard III
New in Town
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
The Virgin Queen
The Other Boleyn Girl (I like this movie, but they could have done such a better job with it. Plus I will never understand why they included a rape scene. Aside from being awful and uncomfortable to watch, it didn't happen in the book or in history.)
Elizabeth R