Media Intake of 2009
Books:
January:
1. All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl #3) (2003) 224 pgs YA Fiction
2. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (2004) 426 pgs YA SciFi
3. The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong (2004) 336 pgs Memoir
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 309 pgs Classic Lit
5. Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl #4) (2003) 232 pgs YA Fiction
February:
6. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt (2006) 243 pgs Psychology/Philosophy
7. Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones (2000) 390 pgs YA Fantasy
8. Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger (1990) 355 pgs Sports
9. 2/17 In Conquest Born by C.S. Friedman (1986) 511 pgs SciFi
10. 2/19 On Writing by Stephen King (2000) 288 pgs Memoir/Writing Advice
11. 2/21 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2007) 365 pgs Fiction
12. 2/22 I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl #5) (2004) 202 pgs YA Fiction
13. 2/24 Pretties by Scott Westerfeld (2005) 370 pgs YA SciFi
14. 2/25 Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (2004) 480 pgs Horror
15. 2/26 Specials by Scott Westerfeld (2006) 373 pgs YA SciFi
16. 2/27 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2008) 307 pgs YA Fantasy
March:
17. 3/3 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (2008) 362 pgs History/Finance
18. 3/9 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb (2007) 303 pgs Non-Fiction (Finance? Philosophy? Math? Rant?)
19. 3/10 You're the One that I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl #6) (2004) 224 pgs YA Fiction
20. 3/13 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (2007) 722 pgs Fantasy
21. 3/16 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1988) 245 pgs Fiction
22. 3/29 The Wilding by C.S. Friedman (2004) 551pgs SciFi
23. 3/30 Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl #7) (2004) 240 pgs YA Fiction
24. 3/31 Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl #8) (2005) 240 pgs YA Fiction
April:
25. 4/2 The Gunslinger by Stephen King (Dark Tower #1) (1982) 223 pgs Western/Fantasy/Wat
26. 4/4 The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (Dark Tower #2) (1986) 463 pgs
27. 4/6 Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David (2001) 647 pgs Fantasy
28. 4/16 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992) 302 pgs Fiction/Western
29. 4/19 The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (1991) 291 pgs
30. 4/22 And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander (Emily Ashton #1) (2005) 320 pgs Mystery
31. 4/29 Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2007) 250 pgs History
May:
32. 5/11 The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (1995) 499 pgs SciFi
33. 5/11 A Poisoned Season by Tasha Alexander (Emily Ashton #2) (2007) 315 pgs Mystery
34. 5/19 Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (1953) 144 pgs
35. 5/27 Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig (2008) 307 pgs Economics/The Internets
36. 5/28 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000) 288 pgs Essaya/Memoir
37. 5/29 City of Glass by Cassandra Clare (2009) 541 pgs YA Fantasy
June:
38. 6/10 V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, art by David Lloyd (1982-1988)
39. 6/26 Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians by James Welch with Paul Stekler (1994) 296 pgs History
40. 6/27 A Fatal Waltz by Tasha Alexander (Emily Ashton #3) (2008) 294 pgs Mystery
July:
41. 7/11 The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (2003) 326 pgs Fiction
42. 7/12 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (2005) 268 pgs Fiction
43. 7/29 The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1994) 295 pgs SciFi
August:
44. 8/1 The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (2007) 411 pgs Fiction
45. 8/6 Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee (2007) 560 pgs Fiction
46. 8/25 Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (2000) 626 pgs
September:
47. 9/7 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1997) 606 pgs Fiction
48. 9/10 About a Boy by Nick Hornby (1998) 306 pgs Fiction
49. 9/12 The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett (2000) 460 pgs Fantasy
50. 9/18 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000) 521 pgs Fiction
51. 9/21 The Family Trade by Charles Stross (Merchant Princes #1) (2004) 303 pgs SciFi
52. 9/22 The Hidden Family by Charles Stross (Merchant Princes #2) (2005) 303 pgs SciFi
53. 9/27 The Clan Corporate by Charles Stross (Merchant Princes #3) (2006) 320 pgs SciFi
54. 9/28 The Merchants' War by Charles Stross (Merchant Princes #4) (2007) 336 pgs SciFi
55. 9/30 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001) 226 pgs Expose/Investigative Reporting
October:
56. 10/4 The Revolution Business by Charles Stross (Merchant Princes #5) (2009) 320 pgs SciFi
57. 10/9 Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley (1999) 313 pgs Pop Science
58. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti (2009) 300 pgs Feminism
59. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich (2005) 248 pgs
60. Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne (2009) 245 pgs Pop Science
61. Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano (2006) 301 pgs True Crime
62. Ha'penny by Jo Watson (2007) 307 pgs Fiction/Alternate History
63. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (2009) 162 pgs Memoir
64. 10/27 Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men by Michael Kimmel (2008) 303 pgs Sociology/Gender Studies PERIL
65. 10/28 Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip (2002) 298 pgs Fantasy
November:
66. 11/12 The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft (stories from 1917-1935) 420 pgs Horror/SciFi
67. 11/13 Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs (2000) 229 pgs Fiction
68. 11/17 The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller (2008) 303 pgs Memoir/Literary Criticism
69. 11/21 Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić (2007) 327 pgs Fiction
70. 11/28 Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #6) (2006) 324 pgs Pop Fiction
71. 11/29 Shanghai 1842-1949: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City by Stella Dong (2000) 294 pgs History
72. 11/30 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen as fucked up by Seth Grahame-Smith (2009) 318 pgs Stupid
73. 11/30 Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip (2006) 278 pgs Modern Fantasy
December:
74. 12/1 All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #7) (2007) 323 pgs Pop Fiction
75. 12/4 The Left Bank by Kate Muir (2006) 340 pgs Fiction
76. 12/18 From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #8) (2008) 336 pgs Pop Fiction
77. 12/22 Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #9) (2009) 328 pgs Pop Fiction
78. 12/26 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (2009) 359 pgs SciFi
79. 12/28 When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (2000) 368 pgs Fiction
Pages: 26,689
Currently Reading:
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (2003 edition) 688 pgs History
Movies:
January:
1. In Bruges (2008) 4/5
2. This Film Is Not Yet Rated 4/5
3. The Reader (2008) 4.5/5
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) 3/5
February:
5. Coraline 3D (2009)
6. Once (2007)
March:
7. Watchmen (2009)
8. Tropic Thunder with cast commentary (2008)
April:
9. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
May:
10. Star Trek (2009) x4
June:
11. The Proposal (2009)
July:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
September:
Inglorious Basterds
Whip It
The Informant!
November:
New Moon
December:
Sherlock Holmes