2010 Bestest Stuff!

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Here's the best things i've read, watched and done this year, in no particular order.

Books-Fiction
  • The Book Thief
  • The Moonstone
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  • Giovanni's Room
  • The Vanishing of Katherina Linden
  • Beowulf
  • Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Books-Graphic Novels
  • The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
  • American Vampire, Vol. 1
  • The Dream Hunters (Sandman Vol 11)
  • I Kill Giants
  • Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer
Books-Non-Fiction
  • Ex-Libris
  • Library: An Unquiet History
  • Packing for Mars
  • How Fiction Works
  • The Great Influenza
Movies
  • Inception
  • Up
  • Blade Runner
  • The Thirteenth Warrior
  • Dial M for Murder
  • The Bridge over the River Kwai
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
  • The Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Kick Ass
  • Sherlock Holmes
Events
  • Moving in with B! he's so cool.
  • Going snow tubing in North Carolina with my friends D and C.
  • Flying over New York City at dusk, running into Ben from Lost on my flight, meeting B's family, seeing NYC...well the whole trip!
  • Watching the Saints win the Superbowl
  • Watching the US/England soccer game in a crowded, divided, rowdy bar
  • Finding a new job
I hope everyone has had as good a year as I have and that next year is even better for you and yours!

Comments

  1. Carl V. Anderson3/1/11 22:45

    Happy New Year to you! Lot of great choices on your lists. Love seeing Ex Libris, Vanishing of Katerina Linden, and I Kill Giants. All are excellent.

    I haven't watched Blade Runner for awhile but got a big multi-disk HD set for Christmas and look forward to watching it again sometime soon.

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  2. Melissa (Avid Reader)6/1/11 14:49

    I love your lists! So many of your fiction books are favorites of mine. Giovanni's Room is on my list for this year!

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