This is just a place to write down things I have seen, heard,
read, etc. during the year.
Stuff with *s are highly recommended.
Stuff with (l) means I checked it out of the library.
All
these lists were started January 1st, 2004.
Books:
Eat Cake - Jeanne Ray (l) * The Pursuit of Alice Thrift - Elinor Lipman (l) Miss Julia Hits the Road - Ann B. Ross (l) Dearly Departed - Elinor Lipman (l) * Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd A Summer in the Country - Marcia Willett (l) The Cat Who Talked Turkey -Lilian Jackson Braun (l) A Week in Winter - Marcia Willett (l) * Easter Island - Jennifer Vanderbes (l) Transformation Soup - SARK ** Prosperity Pie
- SARK * The Private Life of the Cat Who... - Lilian Jackson Braun (l) Swimming to Antarctica - Lynne Cox (l) ** The Amateur Marriage - Anne Tyler (l)* The Ultimate Nap Book - SARK (l) A Creative Companion - SARK (l) Starting Over - Marcia Willett (l) * Second Time Around - Marcia Willett (l) Friendship Cake - Lynne Hinton (l) *
Master Quilter - Jennifer Chiaverini (l) Styles By Maggie Sweet - Judith Stacy (l) * Garden of Faith - Lynne Hinton (l) Forever Friends - Lynne Hinton (l) Whisker of Evil - Rita Mae Brown (l) Things I Know Best - Lynne Hinton (l) The Art of Mending - Elizabeth Berg Daddy's Little Girl - Mary Higgins Clark (l - CD in car) Crewel World - Monica Ferris (l) The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Harris (l) ** Dreamwork - Mary Oliver (l - poetry) ** Winter Hours - Mary Oliver (l - poetry) ** New and Selected Poems - Mary Oliver (poetry) ** Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot (poetry) ** Sullivan's Island - Dorothea Benton Frank (l) Ice Bound - Jerri Nielson
(l - CD in car) Betty Sweet Tells All - Judith Stacy (l) * The Other Side of the Story - Marian Keyes (l) ** The Outside World - Tova Mirvis (l) * Broken Dishes - Earlene Fowler (l) The Answer is Yes - Sara Lewis (again) ** Rescuing Rose - Isobel Wolff * (l) TallulahLand - Lynn Messina (l) Children of God Go Bowling - Shannon Olson (l)** Good Hope Road - Lisa Wingate (l) *
Flirting with Pete - Barbara Delinsky (l) Everything Will Be All Right - Tessa Hadley (l)* The Three Miss Margarets - Louise Shaffer * R is for Richochet - Sue Grafton * Ten Big Ones - Janet Evanovich Operating Instructions - Anne Lamott ** At Home in Covington - Joan Medlicott Framed in Lace - Monica Ferris Shoot the Moon - Billie Letts (l) Islands - Anne Rivers Siddons (l) A Murderous Yarn - Monica Ferris Hanging by a Thread - Monica Ferris The Queen of the Big Time - Adriana Trigiani (l)** Nights of Rain and Stars - Maeve Binchy (l)** Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes (l)** Miss Julia Meets Her Match - Ann Ross (l) The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith (l)** (best of the
year) Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan - Paula Cohen (l)* The Best of Good - Sara Lewis (l)** Little Earthquakes - Jennifer Weiner (l)**
Banishing Verona - Margot Livesey (l) Seven Blessings - Ruchama King (l)** American Girls About Town - Jennifer Weiner, etc. (l)* Ruby - Ann Hood (again)**
CDs:
Po Girl - Po Girl * Evening of my Best Day -Rickie Lee Jones (l) Long Time Coming - Jonny Lang (l) Tales of a Librian - Tori Amos * Singles 1981-1985 - Duran Duran * Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case (l)
lots of music from KYM! All of Our Names - Sarah Harmer ** Get Away From Me - Nellie McKay ** Ladykillers - Soundtrack *
Impossible Dream - Patty Griffin **
lots MORE music from Kym!! Under my Skin - Avril Lavigne Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon ** Finally Woken - Jem * Happenstance - Rachael Yamagata * Warm Strangers - Vienna Teng * Made to Love Magic - Nick Drake * Patience - George Michael (l) Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones(l)
Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones (l)
Astronaut - Duran Duran ** Harmonium - Vanessa Carlton ** The Tigers Have Spoken - Neko Case **
lots more music from Kym!! :-) Lemony Snicket - score by Thomas Newman **
Singles Part 2 - Duran Duran ** Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (l) Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse (l)
Angels in America - score by Thomas Newman (l)
Movies: Winged Migration (documentary) (dvd)
Big Fish**
In America *
LotR: Return of the King **
Anything Else (dvd)
Seabiscuit *(dvd)
Spellbound * (dvd) The Station Agent ** Under the Tuscan Sun * (dvd) Uptown Girls (dvd)
Home Movie * (documentary) (dvd) Once Upon a Time in Mexico (dvd) Matchstick Men (dvd)
* Ladykillers ** Second Hand Lions * (dvd) Mona Lisa Smile * (dvd) Casa De Los Babys * (dvd)
The Straight Story * (dvd) Chris Rock : Bring the Pain *(dvd) Calendar Girls *(dvd)
Cheaper by the Dozen (dvd) The Day After Tomorrow * Volcanoes of the Deep Sea (IMAX) Forces of Nature (IMAX) Shrek 2 *
The Terminal * 50 First Dates (dvd)
Pieces of April *(dvd) Monster *(dvd) Garden State ** (best of the year, so far) Hidalgo *(dvd)
Starsky & Hutch (dvd)
The Prince and Me (dvd)
Out of Time *(dvd)
13 Going on 30 (dvd)
Secret Window (dvd)
Super Size Me **(dvd) (documentary) Mean Girls *(dvd) Saved! *(dvd)
Farenheit 9/11 **(dvd) (documentary) Elf **(dvd)
The Incredibles ** Ocean's Twelve
Eternal Sunshine... * (dvd)
Sideways ** (best of the year, part two) Ladykillers (dvd)** A Slipping Down Life (dvd) Anchorman (dvd) Napolean Dynamite **(dvd)