Books & Movies 2011.
books;
(Loved)
(Re-read)
(Dropped)
001. In The Ravine (Short, Anton Chekhov)
002. Boule de Suif (Short, Guy de Maupassant)
003. Love and Summer (William Trevor)
004. Reply All (Short, Robin Hemley)
005. Mademoiselle Fifi (Short, Guy de Maupassant)
006. We Didn't (Short, Stuart Dybeck)
007. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
008. Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases (Short, Lars Gustafsson)
009. The Fountain (Short, W.S. Merwin)
010. Elizabeth Costello (J.M. Coetzee)
011. The Open: Man and Animal (Giorgio Agamben)
012. The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
013. The Lost Ones (Short, Samuel Beckett)
014. Imagination Dead Imagine (Short, Samuel Beckett)
015. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
016. I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
017. Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
018. The Idea of Perfection (Kate Grenville)
019. Backbone (Short, David Foster Wallace)
020. The DUFF (Kody Keplinger)
021. When We Were Orphans (Kazuo Ishiguro)
022. Rough for Radio II (Short Radio Play, Samuel Beckett)
023. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
024. The Human Condition (Hannah Arendt)
025. From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front Line Dispatches from the Advertising War (Jerry Della Femina)
026. Fall (Colin McAdam)
027. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
028. Dream of Reason (Rosa Chacel)
029. Good in Bed (Jennifer Weiner)
030. Fall On Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
031. The Dark End of the Street (Ed. Jonathan Santlofer and S.J. Rozan)
032. The Stalin Epigram (Robert Littell)
033. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
034. The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School (Alexandra Robbins)
035. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (David Sedaris)
036. Brave New World (Alduous Huxley)
037. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Geoffrey Miller)
038. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Amy Chua)
039. The Best Laid Plans (Terry Fallis)
040. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Chris Hedges)
041. Enough About Love (Herve le Tellier)
042. Home (Short, George Saunders)
043. Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
044. The Miseasure of Man (Steven Jay Gould)
045. A Girl's Guide To Modern European Philosophy (Charlotte Grieg)
046. M or F? (Lisa Papademetriou, Chris Tebbetts)
047. A Spot of Bother (Mark Haddon)
048. The Finkler Question (Howard Jacobson)
049. The Case of the Female Orgasm (Elisabeth Lloyd)
050. Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger)
051. Encounter (Milan Kundera)
052. The Golden Thread (Bruce Meyer)
053. How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Stanley Fish)
054. A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
055. Hygiene and the Assassin (Amelie Nothomb)
056. Light Lifting (Alexander MacLeod)
057. Courage My Love (Sarah Dearing)
058. All The Sad Young Literary Men (Keith Gessen)
059. The Malaise of Modernity (Charles Taylor)
060. Why I Hate Canadians (Will Ferguson)
061. The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal (Ben Mezrich)
062. Call Me By Your Name (Andre Aciman)
063. The PowerBook (Jeanette Winterson)
064. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God (Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)
065. The Idler's Glossary (Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell)
066. How to Buy a Love of Reading (Tanya Egan Gibson)
067. Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love (Dorothy Tennov)
068. Out of Egypt (Andre Aciman)
069. Love (Stendhal)
070. In Pursuit of Happiness : Better Living from Plato to Prozac (Mark Kingwell)
071. How Pleasure Works (Paul Bloom)
072. The Careful Use of Compliments: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Alexander Mccall Smith)
073. Friends, Lovers, and Chocolate: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Alexander Mccall Smith)
074. The Right Attitude to Rain: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Alexander Mccall Smith)
075. The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Alexander Mccall Smith)
076. How We Decide (Jonah Lehrer)
077. Distraction (Damon Young)
078. The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
079. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
080. The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides)
081. My Antonia (Willa Cather)
082. Our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolution (Francis Fukuyama)
083. Nobody's Perfect (Pat Ballard)
084. Bet Me (Jennifer Crusie)
085. The Republic (Plato, trans. G.M.A. Grube; rev. C.D.C. Reeve)
086. Something Borrowed (Emily Giffin)
087. Something Blue (Emily Giffin)
088. 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
movies;
(Loved)
(Re-watched)
(Unfinished)
(* = Theaters)
001. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Edgar Wright)
002. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)
003. Tous des Monstres (Short)
004. True Grit* (Joel & Ethan Coen)
005. The Matrix (Larry & Andy Wachowski)
006. Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
007. Krapp's Last Tape (Walter D. Asmus / Atom Egoyan)
008. The Green Hornet* (Michel Gondry)
009. Somewhere* (Sofia Coppola)
010. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
011. Room (Tommy Wiseau)
012. The King's Speech* (Tom Hooper)
013. Film (Short, Alan Schneider)
014. Quad (Short, Samuel Beckett)
015. Play (Short, Anthony Minghella)
016. Not I (Short, Anthony Page)
017. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
018. The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
019. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
020. The Adjustment Bureau* (George Nolfi)
021. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
022. Cracks (Jordan Scott)
023. L'illusionniste (Sylvain Chomet)
024. Lover's Discourse (Kwok Cheung Tsang)
025. Dinner for Schmucks (Jay Roach)
026. My Tutor Friend 2 (Ho-Jun Kim)
027. Rio (Carlos Saldanha)
028. Bridesmaids* (Paul Feig)
029. The Hangover Part II* (Todd Phillips)
030. X-Men: First Class* (Matthew Vaughn)
031. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
032. But I'm A Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
033. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
034. Super 8* (J.J. Abrams)
035. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
036. Midnight in Paris* (Woody Allen)
037. Horrible Bosses* (Seth Gordon)
038. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates)
039. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2* (David Yates)
040. The Lincoln Lawyer (Brad Furman)
041. Ocean's 11 (Steven Soderbergh)
042. Friends with Benefits* (Will Gluck)
043. Captain America: The First Avenger* (Joe Johnston)
044. Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga)
045. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondoh)
046. Rise of the Planet of the Apes* (Rupert Wyatt)
047. Contagion* (Steven Soderbergh)
048. 50/50 (Jonathan Levine)
(Loved)
(Re-read)
(Dropped)
001. In The Ravine (Short, Anton Chekhov)
002. Boule de Suif (Short, Guy de Maupassant)
003. Love and Summer (William Trevor)
004. Reply All (Short, Robin Hemley)
005. Mademoiselle Fifi (Short, Guy de Maupassant)
006. We Didn't (Short, Stuart Dybeck)
007. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plath)
008. Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases (Short, Lars Gustafsson)
009. The Fountain (Short, W.S. Merwin)
010. Elizabeth Costello (J.M. Coetzee)
011. The Open: Man and Animal (Giorgio Agamben)
012. The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
013. The Lost Ones (Short, Samuel Beckett)
014. Imagination Dead Imagine (Short, Samuel Beckett)
015. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
016. I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
017. Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
018. The Idea of Perfection (Kate Grenville)
019. Backbone (Short, David Foster Wallace)
020. The DUFF (Kody Keplinger)
021. When We Were Orphans (Kazuo Ishiguro)
022. Rough for Radio II (Short Radio Play, Samuel Beckett)
023. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
024. The Human Condition (Hannah Arendt)
025. From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front Line Dispatches from the Advertising War (Jerry Della Femina)
026. Fall (Colin McAdam)
027. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
028. Dream of Reason (Rosa Chacel)
029. Good in Bed (Jennifer Weiner)
030. Fall On Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
031. The Dark End of the Street (Ed. Jonathan Santlofer and S.J. Rozan)
032. The Stalin Epigram (Robert Littell)
033. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
034. The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School (Alexandra Robbins)
035. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (David Sedaris)
036. Brave New World (Alduous Huxley)
037. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Geoffrey Miller)
038. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Amy Chua)
039. The Best Laid Plans (Terry Fallis)
040. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Chris Hedges)
041. Enough About Love (Herve le Tellier)
042. Home (Short, George Saunders)
043. Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
044. The Miseasure of Man (Steven Jay Gould)
045. A Girl's Guide To Modern European Philosophy (Charlotte Grieg)
046. M or F? (Lisa Papademetriou, Chris Tebbetts)
047. A Spot of Bother (Mark Haddon)
048. The Finkler Question (Howard Jacobson)
049. The Case of the Female Orgasm (Elisabeth Lloyd)
050. Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger)
051. Encounter (Milan Kundera)
052. The Golden Thread (Bruce Meyer)
053. How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Stanley Fish)
054. A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
055. Hygiene and the Assassin (Amelie Nothomb)
056. Light Lifting (Alexander MacLeod)
057. Courage My Love (Sarah Dearing)
058. All The Sad Young Literary Men (Keith Gessen)
059. The Malaise of Modernity (Charles Taylor)
060. Why I Hate Canadians (Will Ferguson)
061. The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal (Ben Mezrich)
062. Call Me By Your Name (Andre Aciman)
063. The PowerBook (Jeanette Winterson)
064. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God (Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)
065. The Idler's Glossary (Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell)
066. How to Buy a Love of Reading (Tanya Egan Gibson)
067. Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love (Dorothy Tennov)
068. Out of Egypt (Andre Aciman)
069. Love (Stendhal)
070. In Pursuit of Happiness : Better Living from Plato to Prozac (Mark Kingwell)
071. How Pleasure Works (Paul Bloom)
072. The Careful Use of Compliments: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Alexander Mccall Smith)
073. Friends, Lovers, and Chocolate: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Alexander Mccall Smith)
074. The Right Attitude to Rain: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Alexander Mccall Smith)
075. The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Alexander Mccall Smith)
076. How We Decide (Jonah Lehrer)
077. Distraction (Damon Young)
078. The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
079. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
080. The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides)
081. My Antonia (Willa Cather)
082. Our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolution (Francis Fukuyama)
083. Nobody's Perfect (Pat Ballard)
084. Bet Me (Jennifer Crusie)
085. The Republic (Plato, trans. G.M.A. Grube; rev. C.D.C. Reeve)
086. Something Borrowed (Emily Giffin)
087. Something Blue (Emily Giffin)
088. 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
movies;
(Loved)
(Re-watched)
(Unfinished)
(* = Theaters)
001. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Edgar Wright)
002. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)
003. Tous des Monstres (Short)
004. True Grit* (Joel & Ethan Coen)
005. The Matrix (Larry & Andy Wachowski)
006. Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
007. Krapp's Last Tape (Walter D. Asmus / Atom Egoyan)
008. The Green Hornet* (Michel Gondry)
009. Somewhere* (Sofia Coppola)
010. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
011. Room (Tommy Wiseau)
012. The King's Speech* (Tom Hooper)
013. Film (Short, Alan Schneider)
014. Quad (Short, Samuel Beckett)
015. Play (Short, Anthony Minghella)
016. Not I (Short, Anthony Page)
017. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
018. The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
019. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
020. The Adjustment Bureau* (George Nolfi)
021. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
022. Cracks (Jordan Scott)
023. L'illusionniste (Sylvain Chomet)
024. Lover's Discourse (Kwok Cheung Tsang)
025. Dinner for Schmucks (Jay Roach)
026. My Tutor Friend 2 (Ho-Jun Kim)
027. Rio (Carlos Saldanha)
028. Bridesmaids* (Paul Feig)
029. The Hangover Part II* (Todd Phillips)
030. X-Men: First Class* (Matthew Vaughn)
031. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
032. But I'm A Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
033. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
034. Super 8* (J.J. Abrams)
035. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
036. Midnight in Paris* (Woody Allen)
037. Horrible Bosses* (Seth Gordon)
038. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates)
039. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2* (David Yates)
040. The Lincoln Lawyer (Brad Furman)
041. Ocean's 11 (Steven Soderbergh)
042. Friends with Benefits* (Will Gluck)
043. Captain America: The First Avenger* (Joe Johnston)
044. Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga)
045. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondoh)
046. Rise of the Planet of the Apes* (Rupert Wyatt)
047. Contagion* (Steven Soderbergh)
048. 50/50 (Jonathan Levine)