Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Books 2024

  1. In the Lives of Puppets
  2. Fates and Furies
  3. Old Man's War (#1)
  4. She-Hulk (#1)
  5. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
  6. Scattered Showers: Stories
  7. Wayward Son 
  8. Any Way the Wind Blows
  9. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (re-read)
  10. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  11. A Quantum Love Story
  12. Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny
  13. Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches
  14. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
  15. Funny Story
  16. One Perfect Couple
  17. Before the Coffee Gets Gold
  18. Rules for Becoming a Legend
  19. The Library
  20. Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile
  21. How High We Go in the Dark
  22. Come and Get It
  23. City Limits; Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
  24. Just a Couple Of Days
  25. How to Stop Time
  26. James
  27. Erasure
  28. Such a Bad Influence
  29. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
  30. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2)
  31. The Dallergut Dream Department Store
  32. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man War #2)
  33. Remarkably Bright Creatures
  34. Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show that Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts
  35. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
  36. Tooth and Claw (A Longmire Mystery)
  37. Holidays on Ice (re-read?)
  38. Tietam Brown


James was my favorite. Remarkably Bright Creatures, How to Stop Time and Come and Get It deserve special mention. The Dallergut Dream Department Store conceit deserves mention all on its own. I didn't love the story, but the idea still floats through my thoughts. 

Movies 2024

  1. Gran Turismo
  2. The Family Plan
  3. Up (re-watch with F)
  4. Break Point
  5. Ford vs. Ferrari
  6. The Love Bug (re-watch with F)
  7. Muppets Take Manhattan (re-watch with F)
  8. The Instigators
  9. Curry: Underrated 
  10. Twist 
  11. Next Goal Wins 
  12.  Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
  13. The Fall Guy
  14. IF (tears)
  15. American Fiction 
  16. Herbie Goes Bananas
  17. The Long Game (airplane)
  18. Hot Frosty 
  19. Our Little Secret
  20. Christmas in Notting Hill
  21. Merry Gentleman
A few notes: Car movies are sports movies though Herbie Goes Bananas could have used more racing. I watched American Fiction after reading "Erasure" and the book was better. IF wasn't that great, but it had the themes to make me weep. I'm not that happy with this year's Christmas movies though I'm not sure what I would have done differently. Happy New Year.