"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
--Anais Nin
(feel free to contribute.)
2009 LISTS
books/plays/etc
1. Prozac Nation ; Elizabeth Wurtzel
2. Girl, Interrupted ; Susanna Kaysen
3. Drown ; Junot Diaz
4. The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks ; Robin Romm
5. She's Come Undone ; Wally Lamb
6. All About Lulu ; Jonathan Evison
7. Disgrace ; JM Coetzee
8. The Hours ; Michael Cunningham
9. The God of Small Things ; Arundhati Roy
10. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ; Junot Diaz
11. The Road ; Cormac McCarthy
12. Beloved ; Toni Morrison
13. "Brokeback Mountain" ; Annie Proulx
14. Othello ; Shakespeare
15. King Lear ; Shakespeare
16. The Winter's Tale ; Shakespeare
17. The Waters and the Wild ; Francesca Lia Block
18. The Art of Loving ; Erich Fromm
19. Psyche in a Dress ; Francesca Lia Block
20. Sloppy Firsts ; Megan McCafferty
movies (in theater)
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Wrestler
3. The Reader
4. Coraline
5. Friday the Thirteenth
6. Watchmen
7. Sunshine Cleaning
8. Adventureland
9. Whip It
10. Star Trek
11. Where the Wild Things Are
12. An Education
13. The Princess and the Frog
14. Fantastic Mr. Fox
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2010 LISTS
books/plays/etc
1. Second Helpings ; Megan McCafferty
2. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ; Dave Eggers
3. On Looking ; Lia Purpura
4. The Soul of Rumi ; Rumi
5. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City ; Nick Flynn
6. The Year of Magical Thinking ; Joan Didion
7. Siddhartha ; Herman Hesse
8. Hardcore Zen ; Brad Warner
9. Sit Down and Shut Up ; Brad Warner
10. Black Boy ; Richard Wright
11. The Farming of Bones ; Edwidge Danticat
12. The Great Perhaps ; Joe Meno
movies (in theatre)
1. The Last Song
2. Inception
3. Burlesque
4. Easy A
------>psst here is my friend's only thing so it doesn't get lost among the public entries:
an introduction of sorts. say hi and introduce yourself there, please! mixes & miscellanea will be unlocked, but all personal stuff is friends only.