Books read, movies seen: 2008
Read in 2008:
1/21: Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home – I enjoyed this book very much…I love when recipes are included with stories!
1/29: Duma Key – Stephen King’s always been a favorite of mine, and this was one of his better books!
2/07: Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life – Eh. Sometimes humor doesn’t translate well.
2/12: The Bleeding Dusk – I enjoy this series, even if Victoria does kill vampires! And that Sebastian is HAWT!
2/17: The Kite Runner – Never had any desire to read this book (NO idea why) and I LOVED it. So very sad, tho.
2/18: The Tiger Rising – Barely remember this one…
3/8: An Absolute Gentleman – ditto lol
3/10: Water for Elephants – Another one I really, really liked!
3/18: A Thousand Splendid Suns – Another very good book I’d highly recommend.
4/8: Eat Pray Love – eh. I really liked the Eat and Pray part…but the Love? Not so much. It got old real fast.
4/9: A Three Dog Life – Interesting!
4/12: The Last Vampire – No clue about this one…can’t remember it at all LOL!
4/23: Change of Heart – Man…what a twist at the end!
5/10: From Dead to Worse – Sookie! Bill! Eric…roooowwwwwwrrrr!!!
6/4: Odd Thomas – First time reading the Odd Thomas books…I enjoyed them.
6/11: Forever Odd – ditto
6/19: Brother Odd – ditto
6/29: Tweak – So sad
7/6: Beautiful Boy – I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a parent and have to deal with this.
7/26: Odd Hours – ditto
7/31: Twilight -re-read
8/5: Breaking Dawn – reread
8/17: When Twilight Burns – Looking forward to the next one!
8/31: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – Burned through this book SO fast…my second favorite of the year, even with all the sadness.
9/20: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Loved the scent descriptions in this book…again, tho, pretty sad.
10/3: The Host – Another one I didn’t think I’d like and I did, very much.
10/25: The Gargoyle Easily one of the BEST books I’ve ever read! This one is my favorite of the year.
10/26: Wesley the Owl – Cute story and lots of information about owls.
10/27: The Graveyard Book This is going on my bookshelf next to The Gargoyle and Edgar Sawtelle; my third most favorite of the year.
November:
- Grotesque Disliked this book, very depressing.
- T is for Trespass Appropriate book for what was going on in my life then.
November & December:
- Charlaine Harris’s southern vampire mysteries Reread ‘em all
Movies seen in 2008:
1/6 – Sweeney Todd: Depp & Rickman in the same movie…*swoon*
1/13 – 27 Dresses: Cute movie, I liked it more than I thought I would.
1/22 – National Treasure: Book of Secrets: Eh…
1/23 – Michael Clayton: Did NOT like this one.
1/26: CJ7: Really cute and enjoyed it a lot.
1/29: 21: I know I liked this one, too but I forget what it was about!
4/18 – Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Loved it! My new crush was in this, Russell Brand.
4/26 – Baby Mama: Ok…
5/30 – Sex And The City: Ok…
5/30 – Iron Man: Loved it!
7/1 – Indiana Jones [had to leave as sound quality sucked]
7/18 – Hancock: Damn, is Will Smith hawt!
7/20 – Hellboy: Eh…
7/24 – The Dark Knight: I am obsessed with The Joker!!! Amazing movie…great cast.
8/26 – Bottle Shock: Ahhh, Alan Rickman!
9/14 – No Country For Old Men: HATED the ending.
10/20 – All Together Now: This was about the making of Cirque du Soleil’s show, Love. It was so amazing to look behind the scenes, to see the input from Paul & Ringo, along with John’s & George’s widows.
12/26 – 4 Christmases. Eh, wait for the video
12/27 – Bedtime Stories. This one made me laugh and I can’t WAIT to see Russell Brand as Captain Jack Sparrow’s brother in the next POTC movie.
Posted in books, movies | 11 Comments
January 6th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
hmmm. i might get some pretty good reading material out of this list. someone else posted about reading a book a week in 2009. just maybe ….
January 6th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Doh! I kept a book list- now I remember what I was going to do with it!
Great list BTW- I can’t even begin to compare with you on the movies part – I saw Sweeney Todd & Journey to the Center of the Earth. That is all.
(I only saw JttCotE because the kids wanted to)
January 6th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Oh I think I may have to keep track this year. Goodness knows I got some ideas looking over your list.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Great book ideas. I used to keep a list of books and count ‘em up at the end of the year. I may do that this year. Love all the book and movie reviews too.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Wow, you kept a list? With the dates?! That’s impressive!
I can count on one hand the movies I saw in 2008 –
We need to get out more huh?… Lol.
I’ve never been able to re-read a book – it takes too much out of me the first time around to read it again… movies on the other hand I can watch over and over…
Cheers~
January 6th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Hancock: Damn, is Will Smith hawt!
Yep.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I love to re-read books and have been known to do it quite a bit. Some are like old and treasured friends.
I think I just found some books to add to my ‘to read’ list. Thank you!
January 7th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Now that I’ve started GoodReads, I’ll remember more what I read. I really loved Three Dog Life.
I have a movie recommendation for 2009–Slumdog Millionaire. I cannot rave about it enough.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I have heard so many people say much the same thing about “27 Dresses”(filmed almost entirely in my state, BTW), so I think I will eventually rent it, even though it is usually not my knd of movie.
I got lots of good books ideas from your list(so many books, though and so little time…). I did read both of Khaled Hosseini’s books–he is an amazing author and the books stay with you for days after you finish them.
January 10th, 2009 at 5:40 am
I’m definitely going to have to read The Gargoyle and The Graveyard Book this year.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I love reading also and The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are two of my favorites. If you haven’t yet, you should read Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See and The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck – they are both good!