SEPTEMBER
Watership Down, Richard Adam
The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver
OCTOBER
The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz
NOVEMBER
Listener Supported, Jack Mitchell
2007
JANUARY
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
Guns Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
MARCH
Since Cumorah, Hugh Nibley (unfinished)
APRIL
The Dark is Rising Series (5 books), Susan Cooper
MAY
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
JUNE
Garbage Land, Elizabeth Royte
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Essays by Wendell Berry
JULY
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Portions of The Archeology of Medieval Bookbinding, J.A. Szirmai
The Baker Street Irregulars, Terrence Dicks
The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
AUGUST
Deliver us From Normal, Kate Klise
Book of Mormon
OCTOBER
The Golden Compass, Phillip Pulman
Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
NOVEMBER
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
DECEMBER
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
2008
JANUARY
Sister Saints, Burgess-Olsen, Victoria, ed. (almost finished)
FEBRUARY
Epileptic, Daivd B. (unfinished)
Enna Burning, Shannon Hale
River Secrets, Shannon Hale
Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
MARCH
Stop the Train!, Geraldine McCaughrean
Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium, Andrei Codrescu
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
Princess Academy, Shannon Hale
APRIL
“Good Country People,” Flannery O’Connor (short story)
Dangerously Alice, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Founding Faith, Steven Waldman
MAY
Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis
JUNE
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
JULY
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer
AUGUST
Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman
The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires From Nosferatu to Count Chocula, Eric Nuzum
SEPTEMBER
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case, Richard E. Turley, Jr.
Beauvallet, Georgette Heyer
Science for Conservators: Book 1--An Introduction to Materials
OCTOBER
The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury
NOVEMBER
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
DECEMBER
The Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz, L. Frank Baum
2009
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket
APRIL
The Wide Widow, Lemony Snicket
The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket
Water Street, Patricia Reilly Giff
MAY
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
Naked, David Sedaris
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket
He Done Her Wrong, author?
Billy Hazelnuts..??
The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
JUNE
JULY
Here Lies the Librarian, Richard Peck
The Vile Village, Lemony Snicket
Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young-Lee (most)
AUGUST
The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket
SEPTEMBER
Shop Class As Soul Craft, Michael Crawford
Chalice, Robin Mckinley
OCTOBER
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Cien Anos de Soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marcos (2/3)
Lectures on Faith, Joseph Smith (most)
NOVEMBER
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Glen Leonard, Richard Turley, et al.)
DECEMBER
Intensely Alice, Phyllis Reynold Naylor
JANUARY
Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
The Midnighters: The Secret Hour, Scott Westerfeld
FEBRUARY
Touching Darkness, Scott Westerfeld
Blue Noon, Scott Westerfeld
MARCH
Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world, Dan Koeppel
APRIL
Mary's manuscript
Bryce's manuscript
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home, Joss Whedon
The Female Brain, Louann Brezendine
MAY
The Thread That Binds (in progress, finished October)
The Male Brain
The Watchmen (in progress)
JUNE
Smiles to Go, Jerry Spinelli
Einstein's God, Christa Tippet
JULY
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
AUGUST
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
SEPTEMBER
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
OCTOBER
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
NOVEMBER
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
DECEMBER
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (in progress)
The Wise Heart, Jack Kornfield (in progress)
Intellectuals, Paul Johnson (in progress)
2011
JANUARY
The Wise Heart, Jack Kornfield
Intellectuals, Paul Johnson
The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead (2010 Newberry)
MARCH
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
APRIL
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
Them: Adventures With Extremists, Jon Ronson
MAY
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
Conversations With Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft
JUNE
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clark
JULY
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
SEPTEMBER
The Tower at the End of the World, Brad Strickland
OCTOBER
Merchants of Doubt
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
More Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
NOVEMBER
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
8.17.2008
7.31.2008
movies watched 2008
January
The Cameraman (B. Keaton)
Fiddler on the Roof
Adam's Rib
I capture the Castle
Thoroughly Modern Millie
February
Groundhog Day
A Room With a View
Horsefeathers
Buster Keaton's "One Week" and "The Saphead"
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Dir. Ang Lee)
The Great Race
Regret To Inform (doc)
Mongolian Ping Pong (Mongolia)
Ratatouille
51 Birch Street (doc)
Water (India)
Patton
March 2008
Solaris (Dir. S. Soderberg; G. Clooney)
The Truman Show
Shadow of the Thin Man
The Sting
Amelie (France)
Taxi to the Dark Side
Schultze Gets the Blues (Germany)
My Life As A Dog (Sweden)
April 2008
Chariots of Fire
Sense and Sensibility
Mildred Pierce (Joan Crawford)
The Long Hot Summer (Newman, Woodward, Wells)
Serenity (Joss Whedon)
Touch of Evil (Wells, Heston)
May 2008
The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956)
Rocket Science (jeffrey Blitz)
The Flight of the Red Balloon (France, 08)
Addams Family Values
Mansfield Park
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. . . and Spring (Korean)
Rear Window (J. Stuart, G. Kelly)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France, '07)
Look At Me (France)
Strictly Ballroom
Pat and Mike (Dir. G. Cukor; Hepburn and Tracy)
Star Trek IV
The Italian Job (2003)
June 2008
The Apartment (1960, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred McMurray)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Dir. M. Forman; J. Nicholson, 1975)
Safety Last (1923, H. Lloyd)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Way We Were (Streisand, Redford)
Paper Moon (R. and Tatum O'Neal)
There Will Be Blood
July 2008
The Little Foxes (Dir. Wyler; Bette Davis)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Part of A Night at the Opera
Trouble Along the Way (Dir. M. Curtiz; Donna Reed, J. Wayne, C. Coburn)
The Children's Hour (Dir. Wyler; A. Hepburn, S. MacLaine, J. Garner)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Dir. W. Herzog; doc)
Rocket Science
Part of Pixote (Brazil)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Wall-E (Pixar, 2008)
The Golden Compass
The Dark Knight
The Hustler (P. Newman, only part)
Muppets Take Manhattan
Bringing Up Baby (Grant, Hepburn)
August
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Hellboy
Prince Caspian (2008)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Cover Girl (Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, 1944)
Iron Man (2008)
Miss Potter (2006)
The Interpreter (2005)
Once (2006)
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (2008)
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
September
Come September (Rock Hudson, Gina Lollabrigida, Sandra Dee, 1961)
Carefree (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, 1938)
Madigan (Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, 1968)
Under the Same Moon (2007)
Woman's World (1954)
The Awful Truth (Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, 1937)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (H. Bogart, 1948)
Bell, Book, and Candle (J. Stewart, K. Novak, J. Lemmon, 1958)
October
The Comedy of Terrors (V. Price, P. Lorre, 1964)
Dancing Lady (J. Crawford, C. Gable, 1933)
Secret Agent (Hitchcock, 1936)
Nosferatu (Herzog, 1979)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (D. Kaye 1947)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney, 1949)
Freaky Friday (JL Curtis, L. Lohan, 2003)
The Others (N. Kidman, 2001)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
A State of Mind (documentary about north korean group gymnastics, 2004)
Tales of Terror (V. Price, 1962)
The Last Man on Earth (V. Price, 1964)
Scary Tales
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Viy (Russia, 1967)
November
Return to Oz (1985)
The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
The Story of Menstruation (Disney, 1946)
Mom and Dad (1945)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Pan Shen Feng (Hong Kong 1976, animated)
Home Movie (Dir. Chris Smith, doc, 2001)
Space Probe Taurus (1965)
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (P. Newman, E. Taylor, 1958)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Check and Double Check (Amos 'n' Andy, 1930)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Doc, 2005)
The Search for Wild Man Fischer (unreleased German doc, c. 2001)
Meet Me In St. Louis (J. Garland, 1944)
December
Waiting For Fidel (doc, 1974)
The Magic Christmas Tree (1964)
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
White Christmas (1954)
Cool Runnings (1993)
Santa Claus (K. Gordon Murray, 1959)
Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
Miss Velma's Christmas In America (TV)
The High Sign (B. Keaton, 1921)
Persepolis (2007)
Iron Man (2008)
Son of Ranbow (2007)
Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
The Prestige (2006)
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The Cameraman (B. Keaton)
Fiddler on the Roof
Adam's Rib
I capture the Castle
Thoroughly Modern Millie
February
Groundhog Day
A Room With a View
Horsefeathers
Buster Keaton's "One Week" and "The Saphead"
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Dir. Ang Lee)
The Great Race
Regret To Inform (doc)
Mongolian Ping Pong (Mongolia)
Ratatouille
51 Birch Street (doc)
Water (India)
Patton
March 2008
Solaris (Dir. S. Soderberg; G. Clooney)
The Truman Show
Shadow of the Thin Man
The Sting
Amelie (France)
Taxi to the Dark Side
Schultze Gets the Blues (Germany)
My Life As A Dog (Sweden)
April 2008
Chariots of Fire
Sense and Sensibility
Mildred Pierce (Joan Crawford)
The Long Hot Summer (Newman, Woodward, Wells)
Serenity (Joss Whedon)
Touch of Evil (Wells, Heston)
May 2008
The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956)
Rocket Science (jeffrey Blitz)
The Flight of the Red Balloon (France, 08)
Addams Family Values
Mansfield Park
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. . . and Spring (Korean)
Rear Window (J. Stuart, G. Kelly)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France, '07)
Look At Me (France)
Strictly Ballroom
Pat and Mike (Dir. G. Cukor; Hepburn and Tracy)
Star Trek IV
The Italian Job (2003)
June 2008
The Apartment (1960, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred McMurray)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Dir. M. Forman; J. Nicholson, 1975)
Safety Last (1923, H. Lloyd)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Way We Were (Streisand, Redford)
Paper Moon (R. and Tatum O'Neal)
There Will Be Blood
July 2008
The Little Foxes (Dir. Wyler; Bette Davis)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Part of A Night at the Opera
Trouble Along the Way (Dir. M. Curtiz; Donna Reed, J. Wayne, C. Coburn)
The Children's Hour (Dir. Wyler; A. Hepburn, S. MacLaine, J. Garner)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Dir. W. Herzog; doc)
Rocket Science
Part of Pixote (Brazil)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Wall-E (Pixar, 2008)
The Golden Compass
The Dark Knight
The Hustler (P. Newman, only part)
Muppets Take Manhattan
Bringing Up Baby (Grant, Hepburn)
August
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Hellboy
Prince Caspian (2008)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Cover Girl (Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, 1944)
Iron Man (2008)
Miss Potter (2006)
The Interpreter (2005)
Once (2006)
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (2008)
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
September
Come September (Rock Hudson, Gina Lollabrigida, Sandra Dee, 1961)
Carefree (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, 1938)
Madigan (Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, 1968)
Under the Same Moon (2007)
Woman's World (1954)
The Awful Truth (Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, 1937)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (H. Bogart, 1948)
Bell, Book, and Candle (J. Stewart, K. Novak, J. Lemmon, 1958)
October
The Comedy of Terrors (V. Price, P. Lorre, 1964)
Dancing Lady (J. Crawford, C. Gable, 1933)
Secret Agent (Hitchcock, 1936)
Nosferatu (Herzog, 1979)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (D. Kaye 1947)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney, 1949)
Freaky Friday (JL Curtis, L. Lohan, 2003)
The Others (N. Kidman, 2001)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
A State of Mind (documentary about north korean group gymnastics, 2004)
Tales of Terror (V. Price, 1962)
The Last Man on Earth (V. Price, 1964)
Scary Tales
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Viy (Russia, 1967)
November
Return to Oz (1985)
The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
The Story of Menstruation (Disney, 1946)
Mom and Dad (1945)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Pan Shen Feng (Hong Kong 1976, animated)
Home Movie (Dir. Chris Smith, doc, 2001)
Space Probe Taurus (1965)
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (P. Newman, E. Taylor, 1958)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Check and Double Check (Amos 'n' Andy, 1930)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Doc, 2005)
The Search for Wild Man Fischer (unreleased German doc, c. 2001)
Meet Me In St. Louis (J. Garland, 1944)
December
Waiting For Fidel (doc, 1974)
The Magic Christmas Tree (1964)
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
White Christmas (1954)
Cool Runnings (1993)
Santa Claus (K. Gordon Murray, 1959)
Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
Miss Velma's Christmas In America (TV)
The High Sign (B. Keaton, 1921)
Persepolis (2007)
Iron Man (2008)
Son of Ranbow (2007)
Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
The Prestige (2006)
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