Saturday, January 01, 2022

Books 2021

1. Genuine Fraud

2. The Stranger Diaries

3. Piranesi

4. Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Lanugage

5. How to be an Antiracist

6. The New Ships

7. Fleishman is in Trouble

8. Endless Night

9. All Our Wrong Todays

10. Snap

11. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

12. Wonderful Feels Like This

13. Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

14. The Starless Sea

15. Art Matters

16. 88 Names

17. American Delirium

18. Neon in Daylight

19. The Partner (re-read)

20. Oona Out of Order

21. The Boy From the Woods

22. The Hundred-Year House

23. Such a Fun Age

24. Where the Crawdads Sing

25. The Gone World

26. The Ballads of Songbirds Snakes

27. This Was Not the Plan

28.  Utopia Avenue

29. Leave the World Behind

30. The Weather Man: A Limitless Pursuit of Happiness

31. The Silent Patient

32. The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

33. Just Like You

34. An Object of Beauty (re-read to my own surprise)

35. The Book Thief (re-read)

36. Charming as a Verb

37. Beacon 23

38. Lanterne Rouge: The Last Man in the Tour de France

39. What Do You Say? How to Talk With Kids to Build Stress Tolerance, Motivation, and a Happy Home

40. The Plot

41. The Guncle

42. Evvie Drake Starts Over

43. Project Hail Mary

44. A Caribbean Mystery

45. The Throwback Special

46. The Very Nice Box

47. The Other Black Girl

48. Beautiful World, Where Are You

49. Death on the Nile


I like reading. Utopia blew me away, but so many of these were fun to read and I'd happily recommend them including The Guncle, Project Hail Mary, Charming as a Verb, Where the Crawdads Sing, Such a Fun Age, Oona Out of Order, The Starless Sea, All Our Wrong Todays, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone...





Movies 2021

1. The Crooked House
2. Herbie: Fully Loaded (re-watch)
3. Just My Luck
4. Gorgeous
5. The Merger
6. Yesterday
7. Tony Parker: The Final Shot
8. Downton Abbey: The Motion Picture
9. 12 Monkeys (Re-watch) 
10. To All The Boys Always and Forever
11. Eagle vs. Shark
12. Bronze
13. Bandits
14. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
15. Wind River
16. Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (re-watch)
17. What we do in the shadows
18. Worth
19. Dream Horse
20. Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar
21. 12 Mighty Orphans
22. Love Hard
23. A Castle for Christmas
24. Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
25. Love Actually (sort of)
26. Happiest Christmas
27. Harold and Kumar Christmas
28. Single All The Way
29. The Good Dinosaur 

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is my recommendation and "bad" Christmas movies are getting pretty good. First year recorded that I never made it to the theater. Also, I wonder if I forgot to include something from that long plane ride.