Sticky post
A little something to keep my mind busy and away from History...
Books I've read
January 22nd Colin Dexter: The Remorseful Day ***
January 22nd Hilary Bell: Wolf Lullaby ***
March 30th Jane Austen: Ylpeys ja ennakkoluulo (Pride and Prejudice) *****
April 1st Charlotte Brontë: Kotiopettajattaren romaani (Jane Eyre) ****
April 2nd Douglas Adams: Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille (The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) ***½
April 3rd Sophocles: Kuningas Paksujalka (Oedipus The King) ****
April 6th F. E. Sillanpää: Hurskas Kurjuus ***
April 11th Samuel Beckett: Huomenna hän tulee (En attendant Godot) ***
April 13th Imre Kertész: Kohtalottomuus (Fatelessness) ****
April 13th Molière: Saituri (L'Avare ou l'École du mensonge, or, The Miser) ****
May 7th Guy de Maupassant: Valitut novellit (Selected Short stories) ****
June 7th Jane Austen: Lady Susan ****
June 7th Jane Austen: Three Sisters ***
June 7th Jane Austen: Love and Freindship ****
June 7th Jane Austen: Lesley Castle ***
June 7th Agatha Christie: The Hollow ****
June 12th Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility *****
June 24th Boris Pasternak: Tohtori Zivago (Doctor Zhivago) ***½
June 28th Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera ****½
July 2nd Oscar Wilde - Selected Poems ****
July 6th Sujata Massey: Rei Shimura - Taifuunin silmässä (Rei Shimura - The Typhoon Lover) ****
July 9th Agatha Christie: Kuolema lähettää viestin ***½
July 19th J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter ja puoliverinen prinssi (HBP) ****
July 22nd J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
August 10th Jeffrey Eugenides: Virgin Suicides - kauniina kuolleet (The Virgin Suicides) ****
August 11th Agatha Christie: Kaikki päättyy kuolemaan (Death Comes As the End) ***½
August 11th Agatha Christie: Eipä aikakaan niin voi kauhistus (By the Pricking of my Thumbs) ****
August 11th Agatha Christie: Neiti Pinkertonin salaisuus (Murder is Easy) ****
August 13th Agatha Christie: Neiti Lemon erehtyy (Hickory Dickory Dock) ****
August 16th Agatha Christie: Kohtalon portti (The Postern of Fate) ****
August 30th Agatha Christie: Neljä suurta (The Big Four) ****
September 19th Lev Tolstoy: Anna Karenina ***½ / ****
October 30th Astrid Lindgren: Peppi Pitkätossun tarina (The story of Pippi Longstockings) ****
December 15th William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night ****
December 18th Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse *****
December 25th Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own ****
Total: 36
My book list
Douglas Adams: Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille (The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
F. E. Sillanpää: Hurskas Kurjuus
Imre Kertész: Kohtalottomuus (Fatelessness)
Samuel Beckett: Huomenna hän tulee (En attendant Godot)
Sophocles: Kuningas Paksujalka (Oedipus The King)
Molière: Saituri (L'Avare ou l'École du mensonge, or, The Miser)
Guy de Maupassant: Valitut novellit (Selected Short stories)
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Boris Pasternak: Tohtori Zivago (Doctor Zhivago)
Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera
Jack Kerouac: Matkalla (On the Road)
Oscar Wilde - Selected Poems
Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil
Long Way Round - The Illustrated Version
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein - Uusi Prometheus (Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus)
Jeffrey Eugenides: Virgin Suicides - kauniina kuolleet (The Virgin Suicides)
William Shakespeare: Macbeth
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Movies I've seen
January 24th Alexander ***½
January 25th Stay ***
February 9th Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I ***
March 20th Robots ***
June 24th Casablanca ****
July 17th Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ****
August 13th Wilde ****
August 14th Bridget Jones's Diary ****½
August 16th The Man with the Golden Gun ***½
August 16th Bridget Jones's Diary: The Edge of Reason ****
August 28th The Spy Who Loved Me ***½
August 28th Monty Python and the Holy Grail ***½
August 30th Moonraker ***½
from when I went to Birmingham and came back home (say, September 23rd-October 23rd - oh, and in alphabetical order because my memory sucks)
Amelie ****
Becoming Jane ***
Blades of Glory ****
Blazing Saddles ***
Borat
Dirty Dancing ***
Dodgeball ***½
Ferris Bueller's Day Off **½
Garden State ***
Monty Python and the Life of Brian ****
Run Fat Boy Run ***½
Shallow Hal ***
Shaun of the Dead ***
Stranger than Fiction ****
Superbad ***
The Break Up ***½
The Royal Tenenbaums ***½
The Wedding Crashers ****
[no dates for these either, but after I came back to December 13th]
A View to Kill
Diamonds Are Forever
Never Say Never Again
Octopussy
The Living Daylights
Thunderball
December 14th The Bourne Ultimatum ****
December 18th Licence to Kill ***½
December 18th Persuasion ****
December 19th Dr. No ***½
December 22nd The Nightmare before Christmas ***½
Total: 42
I know many people have been doing this before, and so, I thought maybe even I should finally try and keep track of the things I read/see this year. If you want to recommend something, please do, otherwise I'll end up re-reading Pride and Prejudice for the fifth time (not that it's a bad thing, and I think I'm going to do so anyways).
//updated:December 20th
Books I've read
January 22nd Colin Dexter: The Remorseful Day ***
January 22nd Hilary Bell: Wolf Lullaby ***
March 30th Jane Austen: Ylpeys ja ennakkoluulo (Pride and Prejudice) *****
April 1st Charlotte Brontë: Kotiopettajattaren romaani (Jane Eyre) ****
April 2nd Douglas Adams: Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille (The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) ***½
April 3rd Sophocles: Kuningas Paksujalka (Oedipus The King) ****
April 6th F. E. Sillanpää: Hurskas Kurjuus ***
April 11th Samuel Beckett: Huomenna hän tulee (En attendant Godot) ***
April 13th Imre Kertész: Kohtalottomuus (Fatelessness) ****
April 13th Molière: Saituri (L'Avare ou l'École du mensonge, or, The Miser) ****
May 7th Guy de Maupassant: Valitut novellit (Selected Short stories) ****
June 7th Jane Austen: Lady Susan ****
June 7th Jane Austen: Three Sisters ***
June 7th Jane Austen: Love and Freindship ****
June 7th Jane Austen: Lesley Castle ***
June 7th Agatha Christie: The Hollow ****
June 12th Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility *****
June 24th Boris Pasternak: Tohtori Zivago (Doctor Zhivago) ***½
June 28th Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera ****½
July 2nd Oscar Wilde - Selected Poems ****
July 6th Sujata Massey: Rei Shimura - Taifuunin silmässä (Rei Shimura - The Typhoon Lover) ****
July 9th Agatha Christie: Kuolema lähettää viestin ***½
July 19th J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter ja puoliverinen prinssi (HBP) ****
July 22nd J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
August 10th Jeffrey Eugenides: Virgin Suicides - kauniina kuolleet (The Virgin Suicides) ****
August 11th Agatha Christie: Kaikki päättyy kuolemaan (Death Comes As the End) ***½
August 11th Agatha Christie: Eipä aikakaan niin voi kauhistus (By the Pricking of my Thumbs) ****
August 11th Agatha Christie: Neiti Pinkertonin salaisuus (Murder is Easy) ****
August 13th Agatha Christie: Neiti Lemon erehtyy (Hickory Dickory Dock) ****
August 16th Agatha Christie: Kohtalon portti (The Postern of Fate) ****
August 30th Agatha Christie: Neljä suurta (The Big Four) ****
September 19th Lev Tolstoy: Anna Karenina ***½ / ****
October 30th Astrid Lindgren: Peppi Pitkätossun tarina (The story of Pippi Longstockings) ****
December 15th William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night ****
December 18th Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse *****
December 25th Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own ****
Total: 36
My book list
Douglas Adams: Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille (The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
F. E. Sillanpää: Hurskas Kurjuus
Imre Kertész: Kohtalottomuus (Fatelessness)
Samuel Beckett: Huomenna hän tulee (En attendant Godot)
Sophocles: Kuningas Paksujalka (Oedipus The King)
Molière: Saituri (L'Avare ou l'École du mensonge, or, The Miser)
Guy de Maupassant: Valitut novellit (Selected Short stories)
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Boris Pasternak: Tohtori Zivago (Doctor Zhivago)
Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera
Jack Kerouac: Matkalla (On the Road)
Oscar Wilde - Selected Poems
Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil
Long Way Round - The Illustrated Version
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein - Uusi Prometheus (Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus)
Jeffrey Eugenides: Virgin Suicides - kauniina kuolleet (The Virgin Suicides)
William Shakespeare: Macbeth
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Movies I've seen
January 24th Alexander ***½
January 25th Stay ***
February 9th Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I ***
March 20th Robots ***
June 24th Casablanca ****
July 17th Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ****
August 13th Wilde ****
August 14th Bridget Jones's Diary ****½
August 16th The Man with the Golden Gun ***½
August 16th Bridget Jones's Diary: The Edge of Reason ****
August 28th The Spy Who Loved Me ***½
August 28th Monty Python and the Holy Grail ***½
August 30th Moonraker ***½
from when I went to Birmingham and came back home (say, September 23rd-October 23rd - oh, and in alphabetical order because my memory sucks)
Amelie ****
Becoming Jane ***
Blades of Glory ****
Blazing Saddles ***
Borat
Dirty Dancing ***
Dodgeball ***½
Ferris Bueller's Day Off **½
Garden State ***
Monty Python and the Life of Brian ****
Run Fat Boy Run ***½
Shallow Hal ***
Shaun of the Dead ***
Stranger than Fiction ****
Superbad ***
The Break Up ***½
The Royal Tenenbaums ***½
The Wedding Crashers ****
[no dates for these either, but after I came back to December 13th]
A View to Kill
Diamonds Are Forever
Never Say Never Again
Octopussy
The Living Daylights
Thunderball
December 14th The Bourne Ultimatum ****
December 18th Licence to Kill ***½
December 18th Persuasion ****
December 19th Dr. No ***½
December 22nd The Nightmare before Christmas ***½
Total: 42
I know many people have been doing this before, and so, I thought maybe even I should finally try and keep track of the things I read/see this year. If you want to recommend something, please do, otherwise I'll end up re-reading Pride and Prejudice for the fifth time (not that it's a bad thing, and I think I'm going to do so anyways).
//updated:December 20th