Reading & movies list 2009
Books
rating system: from 0 (extremely bad) to 5 (work of a genius, at least imo ;D)
° indicates a reread
1. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity (3,5)
2. Meg Rosoff - What I Was (5)
3. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief (4,5)
4. Walter Moers - Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher (4)
5. Anne Enright - Taking Pictures (3,5)
6. Ian McEwan - The Comfort of Strangers (4,5)
7. Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture (4)
8. Noëlla Elpers - Dolores! (3,5)
9. Dashiel Hammett - The Maltese Falcon (3,5)
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (4,5)
11. Ian McEwan - Saturday (4)
12. Marisha Pessl - Special Topics in Calamity Physics (4)
13. Julian Barnes - England, England (4)
14. Allan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader (4)
15. Arnaldur Indridason - Konungsbók (3)
16. Jim Crace - Being Dead (3)
17. Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman (4 - though not really a novel I included this here + I really want to see the version with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich!)
18. E.M. Forster - A Room with a View (4,5)
19. Peter Høeg - Smilla's Sense of Snow (4)
20. Jeanette Winterson - The Stone Gods (4)
september update
21. Paolo Giordano - The Solitude of Prime Numbers (3)
22. Sebastian Faulks - Charlotte Gray (4)
23. Isabel Allende - La casa de los espíritus(4,5)
24. Carlos Ruiz Zafón - La sombra del viento (3,5)
25. Carlos Ruiz Zafón - El juego del ángel (4)
26. Jed Ruberfield - The Interpretation of Murder (2,5)
27. Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones (4,5)
28. K.J. Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club (3)
29. Tahar Ben Jelloun - Partir (4)
30. John Fowles - The Collector (4)
31. Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (4,5)
32. Ildefonso Falcones - La catedral del mar (3)
33. Penelope Lively - Making it up (4)
34. Susan Hill - The Woman in Black (3,5)
35. Harlan Coben - Hold Tight (4)
36. Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House (2,5)
37. Vonne van der Meer - De avondboot (4)
38. Unni Lindell - Mørkemannen (3)
39. Bernard Schlinck - The Reader (3,5)
40. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife (4) °
Movies
rating system: from 0 (extremely bad) to 5 (instant classic, at least imo ;D)
° indicates a rewatch
1. Juno (4)
2. La tourneuse de pages (4)
3. Les Choristes (4,5)
4. Death at a funeral (3,5)
5. St Trinian's (3,5)
6. August Rush (4 - wonderful music!)
7. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (3,5)
8. Sweeney Todd (4,5)
9. The Duchess (4)
10. Dan In Real Life (3)
11. Knocked Up (3,5))
12. Confessions of a Shopaholic (3)
13. Happy-Go-Lucky (° 4,5)
14. V for Vendetta (4,5)
15. Twilight (2,5)
16. In Bruges (3,5)
17. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (3)
18. L'auberge espagnole (° 4)
19. Enchanted (3)
20. Definitely, maybe (3,5)
21. Verlengd Weekend (2)
22. Slumdog Millionaire (4,5)
23. High Fidelity (4)
24. Little Miss Sunshine (° 4,5)
25. Sliding Doors (3,5)
26. Bienvenue chez les ch'tis (4,5)
27. Aanrijding in Moscou (or Moscow, Belgium - 4)
28. Once (5)
29. Match Point (4)
30. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (4)
31. The Phantom of the Opera (4,5)
september update
32. The Abduction Club (3,5)
33. Fucking Åmål (4,5)
34. Sunshine (2,5)
35. Breakfast on Pluto (4,5)
36. Ae Fond Kiss (3)
37. Zwartboek (4)
38.The Aviator (3)
39. Gosford Park (4)
40. Chocolat (5) ° (one of my favourite romantic movies: the combination of chocolat and Johnny Depp is irresistible!)
41. Burn After Reading (2)
42. The Others (3)
43. Breaking and Entering (3)
44. Paris, je t'aime (4,5)
rating system: from 0 (extremely bad) to 5 (work of a genius, at least imo ;D)
° indicates a reread
1. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity (3,5)
2. Meg Rosoff - What I Was (5)
3. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief (4,5)
4. Walter Moers - Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher (4)
5. Anne Enright - Taking Pictures (3,5)
6. Ian McEwan - The Comfort of Strangers (4,5)
7. Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture (4)
8. Noëlla Elpers - Dolores! (3,5)
9. Dashiel Hammett - The Maltese Falcon (3,5)
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (4,5)
11. Ian McEwan - Saturday (4)
12. Marisha Pessl - Special Topics in Calamity Physics (4)
13. Julian Barnes - England, England (4)
14. Allan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader (4)
15. Arnaldur Indridason - Konungsbók (3)
16. Jim Crace - Being Dead (3)
17. Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman (4 - though not really a novel I included this here + I really want to see the version with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich!)
18. E.M. Forster - A Room with a View (4,5)
19. Peter Høeg - Smilla's Sense of Snow (4)
20. Jeanette Winterson - The Stone Gods (4)
september update
21. Paolo Giordano - The Solitude of Prime Numbers (3)
22. Sebastian Faulks - Charlotte Gray (4)
23. Isabel Allende - La casa de los espíritus(4,5)
24. Carlos Ruiz Zafón - La sombra del viento (3,5)
25. Carlos Ruiz Zafón - El juego del ángel (4)
26. Jed Ruberfield - The Interpretation of Murder (2,5)
27. Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones (4,5)
28. K.J. Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club (3)
29. Tahar Ben Jelloun - Partir (4)
30. John Fowles - The Collector (4)
31. Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (4,5)
32. Ildefonso Falcones - La catedral del mar (3)
33. Penelope Lively - Making it up (4)
34. Susan Hill - The Woman in Black (3,5)
35. Harlan Coben - Hold Tight (4)
36. Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House (2,5)
37. Vonne van der Meer - De avondboot (4)
38. Unni Lindell - Mørkemannen (3)
39. Bernard Schlinck - The Reader (3,5)
40. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife (4) °
Movies
rating system: from 0 (extremely bad) to 5 (instant classic, at least imo ;D)
° indicates a rewatch
1. Juno (4)
2. La tourneuse de pages (4)
3. Les Choristes (4,5)
4. Death at a funeral (3,5)
5. St Trinian's (3,5)
6. August Rush (4 - wonderful music!)
7. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (3,5)
8. Sweeney Todd (4,5)
9. The Duchess (4)
10. Dan In Real Life (3)
11. Knocked Up (3,5))
12. Confessions of a Shopaholic (3)
13. Happy-Go-Lucky (° 4,5)
14. V for Vendetta (4,5)
15. Twilight (2,5)
16. In Bruges (3,5)
17. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (3)
18. L'auberge espagnole (° 4)
19. Enchanted (3)
20. Definitely, maybe (3,5)
21. Verlengd Weekend (2)
22. Slumdog Millionaire (4,5)
23. High Fidelity (4)
24. Little Miss Sunshine (° 4,5)
25. Sliding Doors (3,5)
26. Bienvenue chez les ch'tis (4,5)
27. Aanrijding in Moscou (or Moscow, Belgium - 4)
28. Once (5)
29. Match Point (4)
30. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (4)
31. The Phantom of the Opera (4,5)
september update
32. The Abduction Club (3,5)
33. Fucking Åmål (4,5)
34. Sunshine (2,5)
35. Breakfast on Pluto (4,5)
36. Ae Fond Kiss (3)
37. Zwartboek (4)
38.The Aviator (3)
39. Gosford Park (4)
40. Chocolat (5) ° (one of my favourite romantic movies: the combination of chocolat and Johnny Depp is irresistible!)
41. Burn After Reading (2)
42. The Others (3)
43. Breaking and Entering (3)
44. Paris, je t'aime (4,5)