I just finished reading Columbine by Dave Cullen. I highly recommend it to anyone who remembers April 20, 1999. It will shake up everything you thought you knew. The media was reporting quickly, spouting out any explanation or inspiring story they could get their hands on, and almost all of it was misleading, misrepresented, or entirely false ( Read more... )

I seem to have actually kept pretty busy in February, so not a lot of reading/watching. Started A LOT of books, finished only three.

Books read (finished) in February:
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (2007)
The Book of Fours by Nancy Holder (2000)
Marley and Me by John Grogan (2005)

Movies watched in February:
My Big Fat Greek ( Read more... )

(OR, the things I've been reading/watching lately)

Eek! February, where did you come from?

Without further ado, allow me to present my January Media Roundup!

Books read in January:
Persepolis: Story of a Childhood by Marjane Sartrapi (2003)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling (2008)
Forever Princess by Meg Cabot (2009)
Spike by Peter ( Read more... )

THE MOVIE LIST
*denotes a movie I had seen before, ^a movie I saw in the theater (sadly few this year). bold denotes a movie I recommend to everyone. If it's not bold, that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it or that I would recommend it to some, it just means it's not an "Amazing, EVERYONE should see this" movie. Or, it might mean that I didn't like it ( Read more... )

Don't look back Ashley, don't look back. It'll drag at your heart until you can't do anything but look back.--Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind

For the first time ever, I picked up a book that is essentially a Bible study because it looked interesting. It's called Bad Girls of the Bible, by Liz Curtis Higgs, and it profiles Eve, Lot's wife, ( Read more... )

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
( Read on... )

I like this meme for its use of "one book"-- I'm taking it to mean, in each case, "one book" and not "the one book." I'm also making an effort to name a different one for each question, although several of them could apply to both.

1. One book that changed your life.
Anne of Green Gables all the way. I can't even imagine who I'd be without it ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm home alone on Friday night, but I have been fairly productive today. Worked out (go, me!) and took steps in the direction of planning the wedding. rachel_edidin is doing invitations, and one_woman_army has agreed to sing and guitar. Huzzah for creative friends ( Read more... )

Only completed reads are included. * denotes a reread, bold denotes a book that I recommend to all.

( dadaDA! THE LIST )

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of Sunday). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.

( and so it goes. )