Third year running, I'm going for 50bookchallenge! Let's see if I can handle this, what with college and all. =\

Books with ** next to them are ones I recommend.

JANURAY
001. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
002. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
003. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
004. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
005. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
006. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling

FEBRUARY
007. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis**
008. The Girl in the Red Coat by Roma Ligocka
009. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

MARCH
010. Jitterbug Perfume**

APRIL
011. American Tragedy

MAY
012. Drama! Show, Don't Tell by Paul Ruditis
013. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
014. Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce
015. What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
016. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maughm
017. To Feel Stuff by Andrea Seigel
018. The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia**

JUNE
019. Secret Society Girl

Might as well, since I'm doing books, too. Stole this from vfd88. I'm probably missing a few from the beginning of January.

1. I watch 100 movies or more in 2008.
2. I keep track of how many I watch in this post.
3. I only record first-time movies.
4. I leave the entry public. If you want to recommend any movies to me, go for it.



The List

JANUARY
001. Hard Candy
002. Little Shop of Horrors
003. Moulin Rouge
004. Wordplay
005. My Neighbor Totoro
006. Cloverfield
007. El Orfanato
008. Soylent Green
009. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
010. The Ballet Shoes
011. Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle

FEBRUARY
012. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
013. Howl's Moving Castle
014. I Am Legend
015. Fracture
016. Quinceanera
017. Lunacy
018. Save the Last Dance
019. Vacancy
020. Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma

MARCH
021. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
022. The Princess Bride
023. Saw II
024. Step Up

APRIL
025. Juno
026. The Good Night
027. Atonement

MAY
028. Borat
029. When a Stranger Calls
030. The Nun
031. Paris, Je'Taime
032. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

JUNE
033. Pi
034. Face
035. Little Women
036. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
037. Kung-Fu Panda
038. Wanted

JULY
039. Havoc
040. Pan's Labyrinth
041. The Princess Bride
042. Taboo
043. Son of Rambow
044. The Dark Knight

AUGUST
045. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
046. Closer
047. Just Friends

SEPTEMBER
048. Children of Men
049. Naissance des pieuvres

OCTOBER
050. 28 Days Later
051. Beauty and the Beast
052. The Mist
053. The Hills Have Eyes 2
054. Baby Mama

NOVEMBER
055. The Ring
056. 30 Days of Night
057. Halloween
058. Thirteen
059. Quarantine
060. Super High Me
061. Dodgeball
062. The Children's Hour
063. Pineapple Express
064. Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

DECEMBER
065. Midnight Meat Train
066. Intimacy
067. Milk
068. Cube Zero

50bookchallenge again? okie-dokie. This year, it's 100 books, at least 50 of which I've never read before.


New Books
JANUARY
001. Acceptance by Susan Coll
002. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
003. Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
004. The Book of Knowledge by Doris Grumbach
005. Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
006. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
007. Ask me Anything by Francesca Delbanco
008. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
009. Getting It by Alex Sanchez
FEBRUARY
010. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
011. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
012. Wide Awake by David Levithan
013. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
014. Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty
015. The God Box by Alex Sanchez
016. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
MARCH
017. The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillippa Gregory
018. Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty
019. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
020. Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
021. Does My Head Look Big in This?
022. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
023. Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
024. It Had To Be You: The Gossip Girl Prequel by Cecily von Ziegesar
025. Gifts by Ursula K. LeGuin
026. Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
027. The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
028. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
029. The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones
030. Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
APRIL
031. The A-List by Zoey Dean
032. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
033. Is He Or Isn't He?
034. Alma Mater by Rita Mae Brown
035. Gossip Girl by Cecily von Zeigesar
036. Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
037. Voices by Ursula K. LeGuin
038. Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin
039. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
040. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
041. Iced! by Judith Alguire
MAY
042. Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Zeigesar
043. The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
044. Gossip Girl: All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Zeigesar
045. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivez
046. Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Zeigesar
047. Tea by Stacey D'Erasmo
048. Map of Ireland by Stephanie Grant
049. Gossip Girl: I Like it Like That by Cecily von Zeigesar
050. Gossip Girl: You're the One That I Want by Cecily von Zeigesar
JUNE
051. Gossip Girl: Nobody Does it Better by Cecily von Zeigesar
052. Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Zeigesar
053. The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro
054. Attack of the Theater People by Marc Acito
JULY
055. Gossip Girl: Only in Your Dreams by Cecily von Zeigesar
056. Gossip Girl: Would I Lie To You by Cecily von Zeigesar
057. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
058. Mommies Who Drink by Brett Paesel
059. Beloved by Toni Morrison
060. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
AUGUST
061. Atonement by Ian McEwan
062. Jazz Age Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
063. The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
064. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
065. Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
SEPTEMBER
066. Miss Julie by August Strindberg
067. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
OCTOBER
068. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
NOVEMBER
069. Affinity by Sarah Waters
070. Chalked Up by Jennifer Sey
071. To the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family
072. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
DECEMBER
073. A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
074. Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
075. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marsha Pessl


Old Books
JANUARY
001. The Amber Sypglass by Philip Pullman
002. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
003. A Girl Called Disaster by Nancy Farmer
FEBRUARY
004. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
MARCH
005. 1984 by George Orwell
JUNE
006. Sabriel by Garth Nix
007. Lirael by Garth Nix
008. Abhorsen by Garth Nix
009. How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theatre by Marc Acito
JULY
010. The Giver by Lois Lowry
011. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
DECEMBER
012. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
013. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
014. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

If you were going to make me a mix tape/CD/playlist, what would be on it?

I'm trying to put some together, just for myself, for fun, but I've realized that I don't know a lot of music outside of musicals.

I like mostly everything, except those crap pop-emo-screaming bands. Right now I'm especially liking ska and bands like The Decemberists.

Give me suggestions of bands, and specific songs! I need to listen to more non-MT music.

( The (completely random) mix I made for the NYC trip )

I just joined 50bookchallenge! As an obsessive reader who basically just devours books, I'm interested in seeing how many books I read in a year; I'm keeping this entry on top for the whole year to easily keep track of the books I read. My goal, instead of 50, is 100. (:

1. Crunch Time by Mariah Fredricks (01/01/07)
2. Specials by Scott Westerfield (01/01/07)
3. How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theatre by Marc Acito (01/07/07)
4. Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire (01/09/07)
5. Where There's a Will, There's a Way: or, All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire, PhD (01/12/07)
6. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (01/15/07)
7. The Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and other plays by Charles Busch (01/16/07)
8. The Time-Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (01/18/07)
9. The Heidi Chronicles and other plays by Wendy Wasserstein (01/19/07)
10. Spring's Awakening: A Tragedy of Childhood by Frank Wedekind (01/20/07)
11. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook 2005-2006 (01/21/07)
12. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card (01/23/07)
13. Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card (01/26/07)
14. Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card (01/28/07)
15. Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card (02/01/07)
16. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (02/03/07)
17. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (02/04/07)
18. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (02/10/07)
19. Hello Again by Michael John LaChiusa (02/11/07)
20. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore (02/12/07)
21. The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne (02/12/07)
22. Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost (02/15/07)
23. Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabees, and the New Reality of Race in America by Bakari Kitwana (02/16/07)
24. Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman (02/17/07)
25. On Agate Hill by Lee Smith (02/19/07)
26. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (02/21/07)
27. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (02/23/07)
28. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (02/27/07)
29. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien (03/05/07)
30. Beka Cooper: Terrier by Tamora Pierce (03/11/07)
31. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (03/13/07)
32. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (03/16/07)
33. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien (03/18/07)
34. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (03/25/07)
35. Verdi With a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera by William Berger (03/28/07)
36. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (03/29/07)
37. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (04/08/07)
38. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien (04/13/07)
39. Breaking Points by Jack and Jo Ann Hinckley (04/18/07)
40. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (04/27/07)
41. Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Story by some guy who sucks at writing
42. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (05/05/07)
43. Our Town by Thornton Wilder (05/09/07)
44. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
45. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett (05/20/07)
46. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (05/20/07)
47. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling (05/25/07)
48. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis (05/25/07)
49. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling (05/26/07)
50. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (05/26/07)
51. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (05/27/07)
52. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (05/31/07)
53. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling (06/03/07)
54. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling (06/06/07)
55. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg (06/09/07)
56. Nine Stories by JD Salinger (06/14/07)
57. Animal Farm by George Orwell (06/14/07)
58. Coming up for Air by George Orwell (06/19/07)
59. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger (06/19/07)
60. 1984 by George Orwell (06/19/07)
61. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M.T. Anderson (06/21/07) *this book sucked; don't read it.
62. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (06/22/07)
63. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (06/23/07)
64. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (06/24/07)
65. Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown (07/02/07)
66. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (07/02/07)
67. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (07/03/07)
68. You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore (07/06/07)
69. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (07/07/07) (I hated this book.)
70. Slaugherhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (07/??/07)
71. Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult (07/??/07)
72. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (07/??/07)
73. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (07/17/07)
74. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (07/24/07)
75. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailkas (07/27/07)
76. Summer Ball by Mike Lupica (08/01/07)
77. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden (08/05/07)
78. Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle (08/06/07)
79. Keeping You a Secret by Julie Ann Peters (08/07/07)
80. I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block (08/08/07)
81. What Would Barbra Do?: How Musicals Changed My Life by Emma Brockes (08/08/07)
82. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (08/09/07)
83. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (08/09/07)
84. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (08/10/07)
85. The Once and Future King by T.H. White (08/13/07)
86. Circle of Magic: Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce (08/17/07)
87. Treason by Orson Scott Card (08/20/07)
88. Drama!: The Four Dorothys by Paul Ruditis (08/21/07)
89. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (08/22/07)
90. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
91. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Carson McCuller's Novella Adapted to the Stage by Edward Albee (08/24/07)
92. Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
93. Jpod by Douglas Coupland
94. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
95. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
96. The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder by Thornton Wilder
97. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
98. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
99. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
100. Grendel by John Gardner
101. This is Not Chick Lit ed.
102. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
103. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (10/14/07)
104. Letters from Backstage: The Adventures of a Touring Stage Actor by Michael Kostroff
105. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
106. Making it on Broadway: Actors' Tales of Climbing to the Top
107. Audition by Michael Shurtleff
108. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
109. Absolutely, Positively Not
110. 13 Little Blue Envelopes
111. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashares
112. Drama! Everyone's a Critic by Paul Ruditis (12/06/07)
113. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (12/07/07)
114. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (12/09/07)
115. Second Glance by Jodi Picoult (12/11/07)
116. Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
117. Drama Club: The Fall Musical by Peter Lerangis (12/19/07)
118. The Accidental Mother by Rowan Coleman (12/21/07)
119. Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde (12/22/07)
120. Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce (12/23/07)
121. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (12/25/07)
122. A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card (12/28/07)
123. Sloppy First by Megan McCafferty (12/29/07)
124. What-the-Dickens by Gregory Maguire (12/29/07)
125. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (12/30/07)

In Progress
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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