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 T  ed Tripp

The Ragamuffin Gospel   Brennan Manning

Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 Kings

French Folktales   Henri Pourrat

Eat, Pray, Love   Elizabeth Gilbert

Present Concerns   C.S. Lewis

The Memory Keeper's Daughter   Kim Edwards

 

 

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

Black Book

Why Did I Get Married

Talk To Me

Black Book

 

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