My Movies / Books / TV Shows of 2009 Books:
The Bridge at Andau James Michener
Edger and Ellen Charles Ogden
The Three Muskateers Alexander Dumas
1776 David McCullough
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC Radio) Douglas Adams
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The Princess Academy Shannon Hale
Battle Cry of Freedom James McPherson
The Undercover Economist Tim Harford
Same Kind of Different As Me Ron Hall & Denver Moore
The Doll People Ann Martin and Laura Godwin
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
Bible the books of Esther, Ezra
A Random Walk Down Wall Street Burton Malkiel
Boy Roald Dahl
The Victorian Fairy Tale Book edited by Michael Patrick Hearn
The Grand Miracle (collection of essays) C.S. Lewis
Unnatural Death Dorothy Sayers
Ultimate Blogs edited by Sarah Boxer
Movies:
Batman: The Dark Knight
Valkyries
Juno
10,000 B.C.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
A Streetcar Named Desire
Leonara / The Lion's Den (Miami Film Festival)
King of New York (Miami Film Festival)
There Will Be Blood
Daddy's Little Girls
Steal a Pencil For Me
Charlie Wilson's War
Catch a Fire
The Good Shepherd
The Company (Part 1)
Maxed Out
Atonement
Grizzly Man
Fireproof
Taken
My Movies / Books / TV Shows of 2008
Books:
The Narnian Alan Jacobs
The Sky Isn't Visible From Here Felicia Sullivan
100 Vegetables and Where They Came From William Woys Weaver
Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
Shepherding A Child's Heart Ted Tripp
The Ragamuffin Gospel Brennan Manning
Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, Proverbs, Acts
French Folktales Henri Pourrat
Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
Present Concerns C.S. Lewis
The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Alone With God: A Manual of Biblical Meditation Campbell McAlpine
Maybe Baby Matthew M.F. Miller (review)
Parenting by the Book John Rosemond
Square Foot Gardening Mel Bartholomew
Busy Mom's Guide Kathy Peel (review)
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
Autism's False Prophets Paul Offit (review)
The Secret History Donna Tartt
CoDependant No More Melody Beattie
Movies:
Luther
Eastern Promises
Partisans of Vilna
Fracture
3:10 to Yuma
The Namesake
Elizabeth
The Life of Mammals
Little Miss Sunshine
Flawless (at the Miami Film Festival)
El Bano Del Papa / The Pope's Toilet (at the Miami Film Festival)
Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains (at the Miami Film Festival)
The Life of Mammals, Volumes 2 and 4
Syriana
Chicago
An Inconvenient Truth
Transformers (first half)
Blue Planet: Seasonal Seas / Coral Seas
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Why Did I Get Married
Talk To Me
Black Book
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade
The Blue Planet: Ocean World / Frozen Seas
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace
How Art Made the World
I Am David
A History of Violence
Blue Planet: Seas of Life - Open Oceans / The Deep
Apocalypto
Gorky Park
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Cocolero
The Page Turner
Short International Release #2
Ghosts of Cite Soleil
The Business of Being Born
After the Wedding
7 Dwarfs
TV Shows:
America's Test Kitchen, Season 6 (on DVD)
Monk, Season 5
My Books/ Movies / TV shows of 2007
Year-end posts:
The Good, The Sayonara, and the Fluff: My Books of 2007
A Different Type of Oscar: My Own 2007 Films
Books:
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
In a Dark Wood Wandering Hella S. Haasse
Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser
All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes Kenneth Myers and Marvin Olasky
Bible: Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Micah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, I and II Timothy, Titus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galations, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1, 2 & 3 John, Jude, Revelations
Good Kids, Bad Habits Jennifer Trachtenberg (review)
Freakonomics Steven Levitt (audiobook)
Even June Cleaver Would Forget the Juice Box Ann Dunnewold (review)
The Not So Big House Sarah Susanka
Vaccinated Paul Offit (review)
Pirate Hunter: The True Sotry of Captain Kidd Richard Zaks
Tools for Teaching Fred Jones
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book
Bergdorf Blondes Plum Sykes
The Bilingual Edge Kendall King and Alison Mackey (review)
I Loved a Girl Walter Trobisch
Kite Runner Kahled Hosseini
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Deceptively Delicious Jessica Seinfeld (review)
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir Paul Monette
Six Point Plan for Raising Healthy Happy Kids John Rosemond
Why We Buy: The Sceince of Shopping Paco Underhill
Girlfriend's Guide to Toddlers Vicki Iovine
Practical Wisdom for Parents: Demystifying the Preschool Years Nancy Shulman and Ellen Birnbaum
Movies:
The Wild Birds of Telegraph Hill
Medea Goes to Jail
Pirates of the Caribbean (Dead Man's Chest)
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (Curse of the Black Pearl)
Batman Begins
The Color Purple
Science of Sleep
Mongolian Ping Pong
The Constant Gardener
The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings)
The Two Towers (Lord of the Rings)
The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings)
Alatriste (Miami Film Festival)
Sonar No Cuesta Nada / A Ton of Luck (Miami Film Festival)
Super Size Me
Life is Beautiful
Serpico
Sideways
The Bicycle Thief
21 Grams
Das Leben Der Anderen / Lives of Others
Spiderman 3
Fast Food Nation
The Departed
X-Men 3
X-Men 2
Blood Diamond
Who Killed the Electric Car
Babel
The Life of Birds I, II
Pirates of the Carribbean 3 (At World's End)
Star Wars I (The Phantom Menace)
Star Wars II (The Clone Wars)
Star Wars III (The Revenge of the Sith)
The Pursuit of Happyness
Il Postino
Volver
The Blue Planet
Oceans 11
The Painted Veil
Blue Vinyl
Amazing Grace Blue
Ocean's 13
Television shows (on DVD):
The Office (Season One - American version)
Good Eats
The Office (Season Two - British version)
Monk
America's Test Kitchen