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What I'm Reading - 2011

*State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
*A Clash of Kings (Book 2): A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (rereading)
*A Game of Thrones (Book 1): A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
Refresh, Refresh: Stories - Benjamin Percy
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Tigerlily's Orchids - Ruth Rendell
*Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (rereading)
What You See in the Dark - Manuel Munoz
Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (rereading)
*Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia - Richard Cytowic
*The Tragedy of Arthur - Arthur Phillips
*Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth - James M. Tabor
*Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
*Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef - Gabrielle Hamilton
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Story of Beautiful Girl - Rachel Simon
*Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff
Swamplandia - Karen Russell
Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (rereading)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Caribou Island - David Vann
Gryphon: Stories - Charles Baxter
The Poison Tree - Erin Kelly
The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown
*The Illumination - Kevin Brockmeier
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
*Memory Wall: Stories - Anthony Doerr
The False Friend - Myla Goldberg
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean - Susan Casey
*Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter - Tom Franklin
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Charles Yu
Faithful Place - Tana French
*Room - Emma Donoghue
*A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories - Ron Carlson
Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King

What I'm Watching - 2011

*Rango - Gore Verbinski
Blue Valentine - Derek Cianfrance (DVD)
*A Prophet - Jacques Audiard
*Black Swan - Darren Aronofsky
*The King's Speech - Tom Hooper
*True Grit - Joel & Ethan Coen
*Toy Story 3 - Lee Unkrich

What I Was Reading - 2010

*Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives - Thomas French
*Italian Shoes - Henning Mankell
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - Christopher McDougall
Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading - Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone
I Curse the River of Time - Per Petterson
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know - Heather Sellers
The Language of Baklava - Diana Abu-Jaber
To Siberia - Per Petterson
The Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks
*The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century - Ian Mortimer
*At the Jim Bridger; Stories - Ron Carlson
Nothing Right:: Short Stories - Antonya Nelson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
The Summer Guest - Justin Cronin
Mary and O'Neil - Justin Cronin
Every Last One - Anna Quindlen
Who Named the Knife - Linda Spalding
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Homer and Langley - E.L. Doctorow
Tomato Red - Daniel Woodrell
*Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York - Deborah Blum
*A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies - John Murray
Little Boy Lost - Marghanita Laski
*Too Much Happiness: Stories - Alice Munro
Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson
The Last Child - John Hart
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin
Secrets of Eden - Chris Bohjalian
*Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It - Maile Maloy

What I Was Watching - 2010

*The Secret in Their Eyes - Juan Campanella
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - David Yates
*The Social Network - David Fincher
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Daniel Alfredson
Hereafter - Clint Eastwood
Inception - Christopher Nolan
Girl Who Played with Fire - Daniel Alfredson
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Niels Oplev
*Avatar 3D - James Cameron

What I Was Reading - 2009

Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
The Way Things Look to Me - Roopa Farooki
The Monster in the Box - Ruth Rendell
A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
*Await Your Reply - Dan Chaon
*The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Far North - Marcel Theroux
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
*Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
*Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Ron Carlson Writes a Story - Ron Carlson
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places - Bill Streever
*Border Songs - Jim Lynch
*The Signal - Ron Carlson
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
*Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
*You Remind Me of Me - Dan Chaon
Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown - Edmund Andrews
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits - Laila Lailami
City of Thieves - David Benioff
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
*The Girl who Played with Fire - Steig Larsson
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
That Old Cape Magic - Richard Russo
Daughters of the North - Sarah Hall
Stone's Fall - Iain Pears
Secret Son - Laila Lailami
The Increment - David Ignatius
Every Man Dies Alone - Hans Fallada
Home - Marilynne Robinson
The Gravedigger's Daughter - Joyce Carol Oates
The New Valley - Josh Weil
The Stalin Epigram - Robert Littell
*The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff
*Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Fine Just the Way It Is (Wyoming Stories 3) - Annie Proulx
*The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
The Path of Minor Planets - Andrew Sean Greer
*Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
*The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
The Glister - John Burnside
The Birthday Present - Barbara Vine
*The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Likeness - Tana French
Lost and Found - Carolyn Parkhurst
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
*In the Woods - Tana French
Twelve Little Cakes - Dominika Dery
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

What I Was Watching - 2009

*Up in the Air - Jason Reitman
*The Informant! - Steven Soderbergh
The Invention of Lying - Ricky Gervais
Sunshine Cleaning - Christine Jeffs
Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
To Serve Them All My Days (series, DVD)
Miller's Crossing (DVD) - Joel Coen
Breaker Morant (DVD) - Bruce Beresford
Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
Young at Heart (DVD) - Stephen Walker, Sally George
*District 9 - Neill Blomkamp
*Julie & Julia - Nora Ephron
Waltzing with Bashir (DVD) - Ari Folman
Battlestar Galactica (Season 4) (DVD)
Rachel Getting Married - Jonathan Demme (DVD)
Battlestar Galactica (Season 3) (DVD)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - David Yates
Synecdoche, New York (DVD) - Charlie Kaufman
Cairo: Nest of Spies (Le Caire nid d'espions) - Michel Hazanavicius (DVD)
Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) - Guillaume Canet (DVD)
Battlestar Galactica (Season 2) (DVD)
Battlestar Galactica (Season 1) (DVD)
Up (3-D) - Bob Peterson & Pete Docter
Star Trek - J.J. Abrams
Is Anybody There? - John Crowley
Frozen River (DVD) - Courtney Hunt
I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) (DVD) - Phillippe Claudel
Duplicity - Tony Gilroy
The Class (Entre les Murs) - Laurent Cantet
The International - Tom Tykwer
The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky
Defiance - Edward Zwick
Hamish Macbeth (DVD) - series
The Reader - Stephen Daldry
Milk - Gus Van Sant
Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
Get Smart (DVD) - Peter Segal
*Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard
Joyeux Noel (DVD) - Christian Carion
Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
*The Informant! - Steven Soderbergh

What I Was Reading - 2008

*Before You Know Kindness - Chris Bohjalian
The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews - James Reston Jr.
*The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer
Full Dark House - Christopher Fowler
*All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
Novel About My Wife - Emily Perkins
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson
The Man Who Forgot How to Read - Howard Engel
*Trans-Sister Radio - Chris Bohjalian
Doctor Olaf Van Schuler's Brain - Kirsten Menger-Anderson
Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
*Criminals - Margot Livesey
The Best American Short Stories - ed. Stephen King
The House on Fortune Street - Margot Livesey
*Blindness - Jose Saramago
*The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
The Foreign Correspondent - Alan Furst
Tell No One - Harlan Coben
Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi
The Forger's Spell - Edward Dolnick
Kolymsky Heights - Lionel Davidson
The Turnaround - George Pelecanos
The Sister - Poppy Adams
*Lush Life - Richard Price
The Spies of Warsaw - Alan Furst
Not in the Flesh - Ruth Rendell
The Lost Mother - Mary McGarry Morris
Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
Persepolis Vol. 2 - Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis Vol. 1 - Marjane Satrapi
*The Story of a Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer
*The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant - Alexandra Fuller
The Beautiful Miscellaneous - Dominic Smith
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
Let Me Go - Helga Schneider
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
So Brave, Young and Handsome - Leif Enger
The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
Generation Loss - Elizabeth Hand
The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson
*Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida
*Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments - George Johnson
Head Cases: Brain Injury and Its Aftermath - Michael Paul Mason
Banishing Verona - Margot Livesey
The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
*The View from the Seventh Layer - Kevin Brockmeier
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy - Irvin Yalom
Fun Home : a Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
The Missing World - Margot Livesey
Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Annotated Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Museum of Dr. Moses - Joyce Carol Oates
Annotated Alice - Lewis Carroll
No Reservations - Anthony Bourdain
The Golden Spruce - John Vaillant
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 - Richard Preston (ed.)
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
The Shadow Catcher - Marianne Wiggins
What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman
The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs

What I Was Watching - 2008

Valkyrie - Brian Singer
Australia - Baz Luhrmann
*Goya's Ghosts (DVD) - Milos Forman
The Secret Life of Bees - Gina Prince-Bythewood
Body of Lies - Ridley Scott
Before Night Falls (DVD) - Julian Schnabel
*Burn After Reading - Joel & Ethan Coen
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Woody Allen
The Counterfeiters (DVD) - Stefan Ruzowitzky
Tropic Thunder - Ben Stiller
The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan
Persepolis (DVD) - Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Mongol - Sergei Bodrov
* The Fall - Tarsem Singh
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Steven Spielberg
Sex and the City - Michael Patrick King
The Orphanage (El Orfanato) (DVD) - Juan Antonio Bayona
Baby Mama - Michael McCullers
The Visitor - Thomas McCarthy
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (DVD) - Sidney Lumet
The Science of Sleep (DVD) - Michel Gondry
The Darjeeling Limited (DVD) - Wes Anderson
*The Bank Job - Roger Donaldson
*The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel
In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
*Lars and the Real Girl - Craig Gillespie
Juno - Jason Reitman
The Savages - Tamara Jenkins
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
*No Country for Old Men - Joel & Ethan Coen
The Kite Runner - Marc Forster
*Atonement - Joe Wright dir.

What I Was Reading - 2007

*The Echo Maker - Richard Powers
Like You'd Understand, Anyway - Jim Shepard
Dry: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs
Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo
*Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
*The Master Butchers Singing Club - Louise Erdrich
*Red-Tails in Love - Marie Winn
Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski
The Mystery Guest - Gregoire Bouillier
The Best American Short Stories, 2000
*Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds - Lyanda Lynn Haupt
*The Air We Breathe - Andrea Barrett
*The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
Songs Without Words - Ann Packer
**Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson
Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer
*No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam
*At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays - Anne Fadiman
**The Annotated Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, David M. Shapard (ed.)
*Five Skies - Ron Carlson
Everything Will Be All Right - Tessa Hadley
Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
Restless - William Boyd
The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell
Origin - Diana Abu-Jaber
A Good and Happy Child - Justin Evans
*The Way the Crow Flies - Ann-Marie MacDonald
*A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
*In the Wake - Per Petterson
*In the Shadow of Memory - Floyd Skloot
The People's Act of Love - James Meek
The Accidental Mind - David J. Linden
The Pesthouse - Jim Crace
*The Road - Cormac McCarthy
*River of No Reprieve - Jeffrey Tayler
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
* = outstanding

What I Was Watching - 2007

The State Within (DVD)
This is England (DVD)
No Country for Old Men
Michael Clayton
In the Valley of Elah
The Lives of Others

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