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, 2005.

Books:
The Cat Who Went Bananas- Lilian Jackson Braun (l)
The Children's Hour - Marcia Willett (l)*
An Almost Perfect Moment - Binnie Kirshenbaum (l)*
Multiple Choice - Claire Cook (l)*
Good Grief - Lolly Winston (l)**
Snow in July - Heather Barbieri **
The Center of Everything - Laura Moriarty (l)**
Coming Back to Me - Caroline Leavitt (l)*
Cat's Eyewitness - Rita Mae Brown (l)
The Same Sweet Girls - Cassandra King (l) 
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers - Sarah-Kate Lynch (l)
The Shop on Blossom Street - Debbie Macomber (l) *
16 Lighthouse Road - Debbie Macomber (l)
204 Rosewood Lane - Debbie Macomber (l)
The Summer I Dared - Barbara Delinsky (l)
311 Pelican Court - Debbie Macomber (l)
By Bread Alone - Sarah-Kate Lynch (l) ** (great book!)
44 Cranberry Point - Debbie Macomber (l)
Plan B - Anne Lamott (l) **
Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons - Lorna Landvik (l)
Ask and It Is Given - Esther Hicks (l)
Ya-Yas in Bloom - Rebecca Wells (l) **
The Sugar Camp Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini (l)
The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd (l) **
The Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg (l) **
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith (l) ** (I love this series...)
Delectable Mountains - Earlene Fowler (l)
Miss Julia's School of Beauty - Anne B. Ross (l)
Living Other Lives - Caroline Leavitt (l) *
Girls in Trouble - Caroline Leavitt (l) **
The Ivy Chronicles - Karen Quinn
The Book of Joe - Jonathan Tropper**
The Wonder Spot - Melissa Bank (l) **
A Good Yarn - Debbie Macomber (l) *
The Three Mrs. Parkers - Joan Medlicott (l)
Pure Poetry - Binnie Kirshenbaum (l)
Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller (l)
44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith (l)*
Rococo - Adriana Trigiani (l)
Eleven on Top - Janet Evanovich (l) *
Julie and Romeo Get Lucky - Jeanne Ray (l) *
The Last Odd Day - Lynne Hinton (l) *
What To Keep - Rachel Cline (l) **
The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman (l) (blech!!)
The Solomon Sisters Wise Up - Melissa Senate (l)
Isabel's Bed - Elinor Lipman (l) **
The Testing of Luther Albright - Mackenze Bezos (l)
The Way Men Act - Elinor Lipman (l) *
The Pact - Jennifer Sturman (l) *
Heart Conditions - Sara Lewis (again) *
Fanny and Sue - Karen Stolz (l) *
How To Be Lost - Amanda Eyre Ward (l) **
But I Love You Anyway- Sara Lewis (again) *
50 Harbor Street - Debbie Macomber (l)
Wickett's Remedy - Myla Goldberg (l)
An Atomic Romance - Bobbie Ann Mason (l) *
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith (l) **
Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner (l) *
The Last Days of Dogtown - Diane Diamont (l)
Range of Motion - Elizabeth Berg (again) **
Sweetwater Creek - Anne Rivers Siddons (l)
A Covington Christmas - Joan Medlicott (l) *
The Christmas Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverni (l) **
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs - Alexander McCall Smith (l) *
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances - Alexander McCall Smith (l) *
Portuguese Irregular Verbs - Alexander McCall Smith (l) *
The Tea House on Mulberry Street - Sharon Owens (l) ** (loved this book!)
S is for Silence - Sue Grafton (l)

Other Books:
China Run (audio in the car)(l)
Living Out Loud - Keri Smith **
Under Antarctic Ice - Norbert Wu (l)*
Urgent 2nd Class - Nick Bantock (l)**
Earthsong - Bernhard Edmaier *
1,000 Glass Beads - Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader **
The Decorated Page - Gwen Diehn **
The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Gordon Mackenzie *(l)
Why I Wake Early - Mary Oliver **
Bad Cat - Jim Edgar *
Art Escapes - Dory Kanter ** (this book is awesome!)

CDs:
Hopes and Fears - Keane *
Hot Fuss - The Killers ** (this CD has totally grown on me- I'm obsessed)
O - Damien Rice (l)
Surrender Dorothy - Alana Davis
Best of SntR - Sixpence None the Richer (l)
Best of Bill Withers - Bill Withers (l)
Room Noises - Eisely *
The Beekeeper - Tori Amos (l)
Bleed Like Me - Garbage
So Jealous - Tegan & Sara ** (such a good CD!)
Laughing City - Eisely (l)*
If It Was You - Tegan & Sara *
Final Straw - Snow Patrol (l)
Songs for Silverman - Ben Folds ** (fave CD of the year)
Wreck of the Day - Anna Nalick
Fired Up 1 & 2 - Various (don't laugh, it's for working out!) (l)
Bunch of Music from Kym!
Music for Egon Sciele - Kristin's **
Les Saisons Amusantes - Palladian Ensemble *
Take-Offs and Landings - Rilo Kiley
X & Y - Coldplay (l)*
Dearest Christian... - PM Dawn
Audio - Blue Man Group (l)
Back to Me - Kathleen Edwards (l) *
Life in Slow Motion - David Grey **
Wildflower - Sheryl Crow *
Why Should The Fire Die? - Nickel Creek
Speak For Yourself - Imgogen Heap *

Movies:
Meet the Fockers
The Village (dvd) *
Hitch *
I Heart Huckabees * (dvd)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (dvd)
Some Kind of Monster * (dvd)
Spanglish * (dvd)
End of the Century **
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy **
Life Aquatic (dvd) **
In Good Company (dvd) *
White Noise (dvd)
What the #$*! Do We Know!? (dvd) *
Miss Congeniality (dvd)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (dvd) *
Be Cool (dvd)
Bridget Jones : Edge of Reason (dvd)
Ray (dvd) *
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory **
Must Love Dogs *
The 40 Year Old Virgin *
Murderball **
War of the Worlds (dvd) *

(not doing so great with movies this year - watching Independent Lens, Lost, and Frontline, instead...)

For 2004's lists, click here.
For 2003's lists, click here.
For 2002's lists, click here.
For 2001's lists, click here.

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