2007 and 2008 Watched/Read

The books and movies I have consumed thus far this year. So's you know what amazing taste I have.

Books		Movies
Chronicles Volume I, Bob Dylan 'Tis, Frank McCourt Mrs. Dalloway, Virgina Woolf The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin The Importance of Living, Lin Yutang A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce The Idiot, Fyodr Dostoyevsky A Passage to India, E. M. Forster The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama The Story of French, Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov Darwin's Black Box, Michael Behe Crime and Punishment, Fyodr Dostoyevsky The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie Biophilia, E. O. Wilson On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger Four Plays, Anton Chekhov In Cold Blood, Truman Capote Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Martin Gardner Frannie and Zooey, J. D. Salinger [REREAD] Ulysses, James Joyce Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh The Kite Runner, Khaled Hussein Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories, Herbert Kohl Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society, Michael Perelman Memory: The Key to Consciousness, Richard F. Thompson and Stephen A. Madigan Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodr Dostoyevsky The Language of God, Francis S. Collins The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction, J. D. Salinger Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe Prejudices: Second Series, H. L. Mencken When Rain Clouds Gather, Bessie Head Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser Walden, Henry David Thoreau Words in Season, Ivor John Carnegie Brown A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester Word Origins: An Exploration and History of Words and Language, Wilfred Funk Red Azalea, Anchee Minn Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders, Lawrence Weschler Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel Why Is English Like That? Historical Answers to Hard ELT Questions, Norbert Schmitt and Richard Marsden A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betsy Smith The Name of the Rose, Umberto Ecco Nature as Subject, Eric Katz Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn The Stranger, Albert Camus The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins Les Misérables, Victor Hugo Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays, Wendell Berry Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion, Bertrand Russell Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte My Antonia, Willa Cather Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel FOR SCHOOL America's "Failing" Schools: How Parents and Teachers Can Cope With No Child Left Behind, W. James Popham When the Emperor Was Divine, Jule Otsuka The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen Betsey Brown, Ntozake Shange Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L. A., Luis J. Rodriguez		Lolita (1962) No Direction Home Main Hoon Na Jesus Camp The Motorcycle Diaries I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco Junebug The Squid and the Whale Omkara Festival Express Borat Troy Kuch Kuch Hota Hai My Neighbor Totoro Kal Ho Naa Ho Shattered Glass The Queen In Cold Blood How to Draw a Bunny Purple Rain The Fog of War Me and You and Everyone We Know Capote The Killing Fields Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles The Beales of Grey Gardens Shall We Dance? [Japanese] Grey Gardens Les Enfants du Paradis Nosferatu Pride and Prejudice (2005) Breakfast on Pluto Marie Antoinette (2006) Umrao Jaan (2006) Castle in the Sky Les Parapluies de Cherbourg Sweet Land Pan's Labyrinth Lagaan Rust Never Sleeps Delicatessen My Family Lawrence of Arabia The Lion in Winter Smoke Signals Water Sling Blade Baraka Crash Bottle Rocket Children of Men

Reading slowly but surely:
The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Republic, Plato
The Middle East For Dummies, Some Guy [thought it was badly written]
This Wheel's On Fire, Levon Helm [had to return to library - damn you, interlibrary loan]
Why Intelligent Design Fails:
A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism,
Matt Young and Taner Edis [had to return to library]
De Anima, Aristotle [gave up after hardly beginning actual text (waded through entire 100+ page introduction from pompous, stuffy-as-shit English philosopher-guy, though)]
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Back to the damn library
The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot Back to the damn library
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair Overdue. Back to library.

Books		Movies
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy The Crucible, Arthur Miller Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robinson It Ends With Revelations, Dodie Smith Atonement, Ian McEwan The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan My Lamp is Bright, Dodie Smith When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, George Carlin Blue: The History of a Color, Michel Pastoureau Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl A Monk Swimming, Malachi McCourt Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama		Breed Gremlins King Corn Atonement A Bee Movie

Not the most auspicious year. Yet.