What I read, watched and listened in 2009
Books read in 2009:
Villy Sørensen: Ragnarök
Markku Nieminen & Hanneriina Moisseinen: Sen synty ja muita Vienan hävyttömiä ja hulvattomia starinoita
Stieg Larsson: Luftslottet som sprängdes
Michael Cunningham: Specimen Days
Dorothy L. Sayers: Five Red Herrings
Maria Jotuni: Suhteita
Maria Jotuni: Rakkautta
P. G. Wodehouse: Carry on, Jeeves
H. E. Bates: Darling Buds of May
Christopher J. Moore: In Other Words. A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words around the World
Marja-Leena Parkkinen (toim.): Ulos kaapista
Kjell Westö: Där vi en gång gått
Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind
Sofi Oksanen: Puhdistus
H. E. Bates: A Breath of French Air
H. E. Bates: When the Green Woods Laugh
J. K. Rowling: Tales of Beedle the Bard
Alexander McCall Smith: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Carol Shields: Jane Austen
Markus Miettinen & Jaakko Seppälä: Malinen - Tämä myö otettaan
Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Outi Parikka: Äiti-Venäjän aakkoset
Tad Williams: Shadowplay
Patrick O'Brian: The Fortune of War
Michel Foucault: The History of Sexuality vol. 1
Tove Jansson: Sent i November
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Idiot
Kaari Utrio: Saippuaprinsessa
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
P. G. Wodehouse: Code of the Woosters
Arnold Lobel: Mouse Tales
Katja Tukiainen: Rusina
Juha Ruusuvuori: Topi Tarhakäärmeen uskomattomat urotyöt
Astrid Lindgren: Eemelin kootut metkut
Favourites: The Idiot - a classic I should have read much earlier, it's really good and not at all an overwhelming read. Gone with the Wind - surprisingly enjoyable, Scarlett is such an antihero(ine) and Rhett's character makes much more sense in the book than in the movie, I think. I liked him much more in the book. I also got Scarlett better after reading the book and after watching the movie. But I don't see how the book is seen as a romance novel, it wasn't romantic in any way to me! The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - such a treat! Oh how I'd love to see a well-done movie or mini-series made out of this.
Movies and TV watched in 2009:
Blade Runner - the final cut
On Broadway
Phantom of the Opera
Miss Austen Regrets
Extras - Christmas Special
Wedding Banquet
Wall-E
Gilmore Girls (season 2)
Bobby
Constantine
Hidalgo
Life on Mars (season 2)
Sense and Sensibility (2008 mini-series)
Rome (season 2)
House (season 3)
Breakfast Club
The Life of David Gale
Battlestar Galactica (2003 mini-series)
Battlestar Galactica (season 1)
Chinatown
Across the Universe
Dexter (season 2)
Gone with the Wind
Mansfield Park (2007)
Happy Days (season 2)
Persuasion (2007)
Battlestar Galactica (season 2)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Män som hatar kvinnor
Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Battlestar Galactica (season 3)
The History Boys
Memphis Belle
Ashes to Ashes (season 1)
Emma (1996)
Californication (season 2)
Music and Lyrics
Pasila (season 2)
Gilmore Girls (season 3)
Weeds (season 3)
Finding Nemo
Tom & Thomas
When I Knew (documentary)
Prince Caspian
Garden State
Fucking Åmål
Gilmore Girls (season 4)
Gilmore Girls (season 5)
Fingersmith
Stranger than Fiction
Gilmore Girls (season 6)
Rent - Filmed Live on Broadway
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (I rewatched all HP films with a friend before going to see HBP together)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Line of Beauty
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
The Street (season 1)
The Street (season 2)
Gilmore Girls (season 7)
Psych (season 1)
One Life: Lager, Mum and Me (documentary)
Road to Avonlea (season 1)
Road to Avonlea (season 2)
Prodigal Sons (documentary)
Raja 1918
Becoming Jane
Slumdog Millionaire
Road to Avonlea (season 3)
Road to Avonlea (season 4)
Los abrazos rotos
A Dance to the Music of Time
Scarlett
One Life: I’m the Daddy
Hairspray (1988)
One Life: Breaking the Silence
Road to Avonlea (season 5)
Musta jää (Black Ice)
Perfume - Story of a Murderer
Miehen työ (A Man's Job)
Road to Avonlea (season 6)
Notes on a Scandal
Tales from Earthsea (Studio Ghibli version)
Ugly Betty (season 1)
Den nya människan
Road to Avonlea (season 7)
Der Untergang
Happy Christmas, Miss King
Kiki's Delivery Service
Far Side of the Moon
Life (season 1)
Life (season 2)
Holocaust
My Boy Jack
Psych (season 2)
Great Expectations (1999)
Lion in Winter
Lewis (season 1)
Lewis (season 2)
Lewis (season 3)
The Shipping News
That 70's Show (season 1)
Doctor Who: Waters of Mars
Favourites, TV: Gilmore Girls - I will definitely watch the whole show again, maybe even more than once! BTW, Mr. Bunny opposes gender stereotypes again, because he watched every episode with me and loved it too. Battlestar Galactica - I still haven't seen the final season. I've been sort of saving it, it's that good. That 70's Show - I wonder why I didn't watch it when it was on. But nevermind, now I have hours of entertaining TV waiting for me! (This also seems to be the perfect show for a seriously sleep-deprived new mother watching TV at odd hours while nursing!) I love Laura Prepon as Donna <3
Favourites, movies: Der Untergang - The atmoshpere didn't let me go for days, it was seriously unsettling, and Bruno Ganz certainly deserves all the praise he got for his portrayal of Hitler. It was sometimes difficult to remember that I was watching a fictional film, not a documentary. Fingersmith - Talk about a totally surprising plot twist that turns the whole thing around! Wow! I'll also have to read Sarah Waters at some point. Finding Nemo - I loved it! Plus I watched it while I was pregnant and getting ready for parenthood, so it spoke to me that way too. I kind of identified with Nemo's dad (yes, I identified with a cartoon fish)!
I didn't buy a lot of music during 2009, but I loved Patrick Wolf's new album. The Batchelor was probably my favourite new song of the year. It's funny that I listened to it a lot last summer, when I, you know, got married. I also bought The Beatles in Stereo box set <3<3<3
A few songs that will remind me of 2009: The Batchelor by Patrick Wolf (see above), Twisted by New Kids on the Block (my favourite from The Block and was so cool live in London in Jan 09!), Death by Chocolate by Sia (I remember listening to it while taking walks during maternity leave before Babybunny was born), Forever Love (Digame) by Anna Nalick (I listened to it a lot while giving birth), This Woman's Work by Kate Bush (ditto). All very good songs! :)