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Books
1. Tracy Chevalier, Girl With a Pearl Earring **** (01/01)
2. David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars **** (03/01)
3. Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves **** (04/01)
4. Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck ***** (11/01)
5. Thomas More, Utopia *** (15/01)
6. Eileen Chang, Lust, Caution **** (15/01)
7. Graham Greene, The End of the Affair ***** (19/01)
-- Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn: ABANDONED due to crapness, may resume later
8. Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace **** (30/01)
9. Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty ***** (31/01)
10. Libba Bray, Rebel Angels **** (04/02)
11. Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise ***** (11/02)
12. Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing ***** (13/02)
13. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine Part One *** (16/02)
14. William Shakespeare, Henry V ***** (18/02)
15. Holly Black, Tithe **** (22/02)
16. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, *** (25/02)
17. Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now ***** (29/02)
18. Christopher Marlowe, Hero & Leander **** (03/03)
19. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ***** (03/03)
20. Laura Esquivel, Like Water For Chocolate *** (04/03)
21. Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road ****1/2 (10/03)
22. Ben Jonson, Volpone *** (11/03)
23. Meg Rosoff, What I Was **** (13/03)
-- BONUS FEATURE! 1099 installments of Questionable Content *****
24. Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together **** (17/03)
25. Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants ***1/2 (26/03)
26. Susan Cooper, King of Shadows **** (28/03)
27. Cecil Castellucci & Jim Rugg, The Plain Janes *** (29/03)
28. Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip ***** (29/03)
29. David Levithan & Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ***** (30/03)
30. Graham Greene, Our Man In Havana **** (02/04)
31. Haruki Murukami, Norwegian Wood, ***1/2 (03/04)
32. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep ***** (07/04)
33. E.M. Forster, A Room with a View ***** (12/04)
34. Irene Nemirovsky, David Golder **** (13/04)
35. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day ***** (20/04)
36. Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie, Lost Girls **** (28/04)
37. Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince **** (30/04)
38. Olwyn M. Blouet, The Contemporary History of the Caribbean *** (02/05)
39. Meg Rosoff, Just In Case **** (03/05)
40. Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You ***1/2 (04/05)
41. Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John, **** (07/05)
42. Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb ***1/2 (08/05)
43. Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis **** (10/05)
44. Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones ****1/2 (10/05)
45. Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies ***1/2 (14/05)
46. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower **** (19/05)
47. Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker ***** (22/05)
48. Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ***** (29/05)
49. Achy Obejas, Memory Mambo **** (05/06)
50. Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven **** (06/06)
51. Andrea Levy, Small Island **** (09/06)
52. Leone Ross, All The Blood Is Red **** (11/06)
53. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express **** (17/06)
54. Oonya Kempadoo, Tide Running ***** (18/06)
55. Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms **** (26/06)
56. Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body ****1/2 (30/06)
57. Margaret Cezair-Thompson, The True History of Paradise **** (03/07)
58. Melissa P., One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed **** (05/07
59. Neil Gaiman, Death: The High Cost of Living *** (06/07)
60. Cormac McCarthy, The Road, ***** (06/07)
61. Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell, From Hell ****1/2 (07/07)
62. Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers ***1/2 (09/07)
63. Haruki Murukami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman ***** (15/07)
64. Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans ***1/2 (18/07)
65. Louise Rennison, Luuurve Is A Many Trousered Thing **** (19/07)
66. Lousie Rennison, Stop In The Name Of Pants! **** (19/07)
67. Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle ***** (24/07)
68. Various, Batman Vs Two-Face **** (27/07)
69. Eva Ibbotson, The Morning Gift ***1/2 (27/07)
70. Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever **** (29/07)
71. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey ***** (01/08)
72. Francesca Lia Block, Echo **** (02/08)
73. Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby *** (13/08)
74. Winnifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day **** (17/08)
75. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca ***** (25/08)
76. Louise Bagshawe, Career Girls * (27/08)
77. Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds *** (31/08)
78. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas ***** (08/09)
79. E.M. Forster, Maurice *** (09/09)
80. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited **** (13/09)
81. Amanda Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ***** (14/09)
82. Mary S. Lovell, The Mitford Girls *** (21/09)
83. Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen: A Life ***** (25/09)
84. Danny Wallace, Friends Like These **** (28/09)
85. Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place ***** (01/10)
86. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles **** (08/10)
87. Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book ***** (18/10)
88. Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer ***** (05/11)
89. Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest **** (28/11)
90. John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ***** (30/11)
91. Rebecca Miller, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee **** (21/12)
92. Richard Yates, Cold Spring Harbor, **** (24/12)
93. Doctor Who Annual 2009! *** (25/12)
94. Daniel Clowes, Ghost World **** (25/12)

Films
1. Hard Candy **** (11/01)
2. The Kite Runner ***** (12/01)
3. Capturing Mary **** (13/01)
4. Waitress **** (18/01)
5. The Sea Inside ***** (23/01)
6. No Country For Old Men ***** (24/01)
7. The Jane Austen Book Club *** (24/01)
8. Sweeney Todd ***** (31/01)
9. Grizzly Man *** (01/02)
10. The Great Escape ***** (02/02)
11. Everything Is Illuminated **** (08/02)
12. High School Musical 2 ***(+1 for crack) (09/02)
13. Holes **** (09/02)
14. The Even Stevens Movie **(+1 for THE BEEF ♥) (11/02)
15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants *** SHUT UP I LIKED THE COLOURS IN THE GREECE BIT (13/02)
16. Eastern Promises **** (25/02)
17. Soldier's Girl **** (25/02)
18. As You Like It ***1/2 (28/02)
19. Beowulf **** (28/02)
20. We Own The Night ***1/2 (29/02)
21. Once ***** (01/03)
22. There Will Be Blood **** (01/03)
23. Lust, Caution ***** (03/03)
24. Back To The Future Part One **** (07/03)
25. Like Minds **** (08/03)
26. I Want Candy **1/2 (08/03)
27. Young Adam **** (13/03)
26. The Other Boleyn Girl *** (14/03)
27. Remember The Titans **** (15/03)
28. Lady Jane ***1/2 (15/03)
29. Les Choristes **** (17/03)
30. 27 Dresses ***1/2 (27/03)
31. Little Children **** (03/04)
32. Howards End **** (05/04)
33. A Room with a View **** (06/04)
34. The Darjeeling Limited ***** (07/04)
35. The Manchurian Candiate (2004) **** (12/04)
36. My Beautiful Laundrette ***1/2 (12/04)
37. Son of Rambow ***** (16/04)
38. An Ideal Husband **** (19/04)
39. Napoleon Dynamite **** (19/04)
40. Maurice **** (25/04)
41. Jumper *** (01/05)
42. Charlie Wilson's War *** (02/05)
43. The Remains of the Day ***** (03/05)
44. Jesus Camp **** (19/05)
45. Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull ****1/2 (22/05)
46. Juno **** (23/05)
47. The French Lieutenant's Woman **** (28/05)
48. Be Kind Rewind ***1/2 (29/05)
49. Disturbia *** (07/06)
50. I ♥ Huckabees ***** (08/06)
51. Savage Grace **** (09/06)
52. In Bruges ***** (16/06)
53. Iron Man **** (20/06)
54. Music and Lyrics *** (25/06)
55. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ***1/2 (26/06)
56. Danny the Champion of the World ****1/2 (27/06)
57. That Thing You Do **** (27/06)
58. Penelope, **** (29/06)
59. The Edge of Love ***1/2 (30/06)
60. A Guide to Recognising Your Saints **** (01/07)
61. Joe's Palace **** (05/07)
62. Across The Universe **** (06/07)
63. Charlie Bartlett **** (07/07)
64. Saved! **** (07/07)
65. Babel ***** (10/07)
66. Wanted ****1/2 (13/07)
67. Mamma Mia! *** +1 because yay! Stellan Skarsgard (14/07)
68. Hellboy ***1/2 (15/07)
69. Ratatouille ***** (19/07)
70. WALL-E ***** (21/07)
71. The Dark Knight ***** (24/07)
72. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang ***** (25/07)
73. The Orphanage ****1/2 (30/07)
74. Shoot 'Em Up ***1/2 (03/08)
75. Lions For Lambs **** (at least 1/2 of that is for Andrew Garfield) (07/08)
76. Star Wars: The Clone Wars *1/2 (25/08)
77. Chasing Liberty *** (27/08)
78. Imagine Me & You *** (04/09)
79. Mad About Mambo **1/2 (but William Ash is luffly!) (06/09)
80. Oscar and Lucinda **** (15/09)
81. Rocknrolla **** (16/09)
82. Beautiful Thing *** (29/09)
83. Immortal Beloved ***1/2 (30/09)
84. Miss Austen Regrets ***** (01/10)
85. Summertime ***** (02/10)
86. Brideshead Revisited **** (06/10)
87. St Trinian's **** (13/10)
88. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day **** (15/10)
89. Eroica ***** (16/10)
90. Bugville *** (17/10)
91. Persepolis ****1/2 (20/10)
92. Citizen Kane ***** (22/10)
93. High School Musical 3: Senior Year **** (SHUT UP SHUT UP IT IS JOYOUS) (23/10)
94. The Lady From Shanghai **** (24/10)
95. Kiss Me Deadly **** (27/10)
96. Imitation of Life **** (31/10)
97. Quantum of Solace **** (31/10)
98. Control ***** (02/11)
99. Shadows **** (03/11)
100. Excalibur ** (03/11)
101. Speak **** (28/11)
102. Mean Streets ***** (05/12)
103. Blue Velvet **** (08/12)
104. Lost Highway ****1/2 (10/12)
105. Wild Child *** (12/12)
106. Australia ***** (26/12)
107. Richard III **** (26/12)


Plays
1. Patrick Marber, Dealer's Choice, Trafalgar Studios, London **** (3/01)
2. William Wycherly, The Country Wife, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London ***** (3/01)
3. Edward Bond, The Sea, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London **** (26/01)
4. William Shakespeare, Othello, Donmar Warehouse, London ***** (16/02)
5. Noel Coward/Kneehigh Theatre, Brief Encounter, Cinema Haymarket, London ****1/2 (26/03)
6. Harold Pinter, The Lover/The Collection, Ambassador Comedy Theatre, London **** (26/03)
7. Jean Anouhil/Christopher Fry, Ring Round The Moon, Playhouse, London ***** (28/03)
8. Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Hairspray, Shaftesbury Theatre, London ****1/2 (29/03)
9. BBC Symphony Orchestra & Philip Quast, Barbican, London **** (09/05)
10. Margaret Martin, Gone With the Wind, New London Theatre, London ***1/2 (10/05)
11. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Vanbrugh Bowl, University of York ***1/2 (04/06)
12. Aladdin, Vanbrugh Bowl, University of York, **** (14/06)
13. Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Olivier, National Theatre, London **** (09/07)
14. William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford **** (09/08)
15. Fyodor Dostoyevsky/Katie Mitchell, ...some trace of her, The Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London **** (13/09)
16. Anton Chekhov/Tom Stoppard, Ivanov, Wyndhams, London ***** (21/09)
17. Chistopher Shinn, Now or Later, Royal Court, London **** (03/10)
18. William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, The Lowry, Salford **** (15/11)
19. Sophocles/Frank McGuiness, Oedipus, The Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London **** (30/11)
20. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, The Novello, London **** (20/12)

TOTAL
94 books; 107 films; 20 plays

Date: 2008-01-04 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arcady.livejournal.com
I love Tracy Chevalier. My favourite book of hers is The Virgin Blue.

Date: 2008-01-04 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophieisgod.livejournal.com
Yeah, I was surprised by how much I liked it. I only read it because it's on my list for Book Group at uni; I thought it was going to be Philippa Gregory-esque trash *loves The Gregster* and it really wasn't. I shall have to track that one down :)

Date: 2008-01-04 08:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arcady.livejournal.com
LOL! *loves The Gregster*. I do as well, but I definitely think Tracy Chevalier is a better writer. I've read all of both of their books. :D :D :D :D :D

I was surprised at how much I liked TVB...And check out her other ones!

Date: 2008-01-05 01:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkangsty42.livejournal.com
3 books already? Color me impressed.

Date: 2008-01-05 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophieisgod.livejournal.com
Train rides and insomnia, my friend. It's the future :)

Date: 2008-01-05 03:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auroralives.livejournal.com
I love Girl With A Pearl Earring. Have you seen the film?

Date: 2008-01-05 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophieisgod.livejournal.com
I haven't! My friend Sky Plussed it over New Year but it was all corrupted when we tried to watch it :(

Is it as good as the book? Do Cillian and Colin manage to overcome Dodgy Dutch Hair?

Date: 2008-01-05 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auroralives.livejournal.com
Dodgy Dutch Hair? Qu'est-ce que c'est? All I know is that Cillian is HAWT. In the film. And so is Colin for that matter. All scruffy-like in a good way. The film is quietly perfect, I think. It translates the book really well, all quiet and subdued yet interesting and sexual tension-like. It also helps that Scarlett Johansson is ridiculously pretty as a pale-as-death Dutch woman. The girl pulls it off.

Date: 2008-01-13 11:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] templa-otmena.livejournal.com
The Kite Runner! How was it? Have you read the book?!?!? xXx

Date: 2008-01-13 11:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophieisgod.livejournal.com
Ohhh, I cried! And I read the book over Christmas, loved it. *sobs*

Date: 2008-01-26 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thedreamygirl.livejournal.com
I thought Capturing Mary was a bit weird. I liked it. It's just...the guy should have been more suave and dangerous-sexy but he was played by David Walliams and therefore couldn't be anything but WEIRD (and a bit scary)! Why would you go alone into a dark cellar with David Walliams?
I did want Ruth Wilson's wardrobe though.

When/how did you see The Jane Austen Book Club?! I've not heard very great things about it, but I really want to see it for some reason.

Date: 2008-01-30 03:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saintsinsatin.livejournal.com
Firstly, thank God I'm not the only person who makes lists of all the plays, books and films they see and read.
Secondly, I saw 'Dealer's Choice' last Thursday and isn't it awesome?! I saw the consumptive dude from Bleak House outside the theatre as well and had a wee spasm. I made a vow to see everything that The History Boys did onstage.
Did you get tickets for 'The Sea' from the Haymarket Masterclass mailing list? Because they offered me some but I was too ill to go. Sam Anderson was in it, wasn't he? I guess that's my vow broken.
Thirdly, SHOEBOX QUOTE ON YOUR COMMENTS LINK OMG YAY. Shoebox seems to have become universally adored. And rightly so.
Fourthly, Flight of the Conchords. YYY. Basically.

Date: 2008-01-31 11:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophieisgod.livejournal.com
I love lists! They're strangely motivational also. Like, OMG MUST MAKE LISTS AND READ STUFF SO LJ PEOPLE THINK I AM LEARNED. Yay, Patrick Kennedy! It's all about Allan Woodcourt, though. Grrr.

RusselL Tovey was in The Sea! He was righteous, broke my little heart with his acting skillz. We got the tickets from Tocketmaster, thoguh, because we knew Harry Lloyd was in it...

WHOOO, SHOEBOX. I need an update, like, yesterday.

FOTC, YES. Are you a Jemaine person or a Bret person?

Date: 2008-01-31 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saintsinsatin.livejournal.com
They definitely are. I might have to put my lists on LJ as well so my f-list can marvel at my culturedness. I'm amazed at the amount of books you've read already. I've only just finished my fourth this year. And two of them were really short.

Oh God, why didn't I take up the free ticket offer?! Damn illness! Why must it prevent me from seeing a History Boy in action?
Did you know that Sam Barnett turned down the role of Raleigh in 'Journey's End' because he thought it was too similar to Posner? I would murder to see him play Raleigh.

Me too! I'm in awe of the writers, they're only young 'uns as well.

I am most definitely a Jemaine person. Most of my friends are Bret people so it works out nicely. How about you?

Date: 2008-02-01 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophieisgod.livejournal.com
LOL, I'm an English student. Reading is the bane of my existence and my sweet, sweet lover XD

UGH, Sam as Raleigh would be divine, but I can kind of see his point, though. I do wish I'd seen Hugh Dancy in that, STUPID BROADWAY NOT BEING IN THE UK!

I'm a Bret girl (the eyes! the hair!), but I do have to admire Jemaine's muscular calves during "Business Time"...

Date: 2008-02-09 09:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] templa-otmena.livejournal.com
It is made up of stills but this was the song to my late summer, back when we had no Atonement and only angsty posts on LJ.

Date: 2008-02-14 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] templa-otmena.livejournal.com
... you watched 'The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants'... I bought the Even Stevens Movie that I can only watch four times and I feel real shame for you! Sophie! xXx

Date: 2008-03-09 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkangsty42.livejournal.com
BACK TO THE FUTURE. WIN.

"It's written all over your underwear!"

Date: 2008-04-06 11:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dollsome.livejournal.com
Let me just say that you read A LOT! Like, an awe-inspiring amount!

Date: 2008-05-02 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] templa-otmena.livejournal.com
... don't let Kathryn see that you gave Jumper 3 stars!

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