These are my ten favorite books I've read that were published in the last decade

( Actually, it's more than ten )

For my records.

( Movies I saw in the theater )

( Movies I watched on DVD )

( TV shows I watched on DVD )

( Books I read )

( CDs I bought/received )

( DVDs I received )

( Songs I bought on iTunes )

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Close Range: Wyoming Stories - Annie Proulx (Well, I read a quarter of it)
A Seperate Peace - John Knowles
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Mist - Stephen King
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
New Moon - Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer
Alphabet Weekends - Elizabeth Noble
The Sex Lives of Cannibals - J. Maarten Troost
The Secret of Lost Things - Sheridan Hay
Sarah's Key - Tatiana De Rosnay
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (currently listening to - I downloaded it for free on Audible.com)
Certain Girls - Jennifer Weiner - currently reading)
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming - Joshilyn Jackson

1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Close Range: Wyoming Stories - Annie Proulx
A Seperate Peace - John Knowles
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Mist - Stephen King
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
New Moon - Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer
Alphabet Weekends - Elizabeth Noble
The Sex Lives of Cannibals - J. Maarten Troost - currently reading
The Secret of Lost Things - Sheridan Hay
Sarah's Key - Tatiana De Rosnay

I saw Milk the other day and I can see why Sean Penn won his second Oscar shortly after winning his first.

I recently finished New Moon (don't worry, I bought a used copy off e-bay so I didn't pay as much for it if I had bought if from a bookstore) and ( here are my thoughts )

Okay, so I finished Twilight and I'm pretty sure ( I lost some brain cells )

My updated reading list:

1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prey by Michael Crichton
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Close Range: Wyoming Stories - Annie Proulx
A Seperate Peace - John Knowles
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
The Mist - Stephen King
The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
On Writing - Stephen King
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer - currently reading

( Twilight thoughts )

( Revised reading list )

I haven't posted in awhile because I've been addicted to the games on my new iPod Classic, especially UNO.

Today's topics:

( Gossip Girl )

( V-Day Decorations )

( Golden Globes )

I've finished my Christmas shopping! Here's what I got for everyone:

Dad: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Mom: Burberry Brit perfume and lavender chamomile hand soap
Bill: The Dark Knight 2-disc DVD
Kelly: Philosophy "The Recipe Box" with three body washes: red velvet cake, sweet creamy frosting, and strawberry shortcake and winter candy apple body wash
Maggie and Stanley: I got each a rawhide chew bone, Itty Bitty Bones treats, and dog food sampler, plus for Maggie I got Peanut Butter Beagle Bagels because she's part beagle and loves peanut butter, and for Stanley I got oven baked treats. They look just like Oreo cookies! I got their stuff at the Three Dog Bakery.

( My Christmas wishlist )

I checked out four Gossip Girl books from the library. Do you know how embarrasing that was? Damn that show for being so addictive. I have a feeling I'll bitch how the books don't hold a candle to the TV show!

I was also amazed when I paid only $18 for a full tank of gas. It wasn't that long ago when I had to pay $50 for a full tank! Saving money feels great! (Or spending it on Christmas gifts instead, anyway).

1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prey by Michael Crichton
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Close Range: Wyoming Stories - Annie Proulx
A Seperate Peace - John Knowles
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
The Mist - Stephen King
The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray - currently reading
On Writing - Stephen King
Twilight - Stephanie Myer

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Invisible Circus by Susan Egan
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prey by Michael Crichton - currently reading
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Summons by John Grisham
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The Lake House by James Patterson
Atonement by Ian McEwan
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

( Revised list (with new additions): )

Borrowed from warrioreowyn

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

( To the library )

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray - currently reading
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Invisible Circus by Susan Egan
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prey by Michael Crichton
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Summons by John Grisham
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The Lake House by James Patterson
Atonement by Ian McEwan
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb - currently reading
The Invisible Circus by Susan Egan
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prey by Michael Crichton
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Summons by John Grisham
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The Lake House by James Patterson
Atonement by Ian McEwan

I spent the last couple of days at my parents house and my dad had just finished Watership Down and here's how our conversation went:

Dad: "I finished the bunny book last night."
Me: "How did you like it?"
Dad: "It's the best book I've ever read."
Me (eyes widen:) "That's the best book I've ever read."

Yay, I'm so happy he liked it. If you haven't read Watership Down by Richard Adams, it's a must. Now my mom is going to read it next. She has a lot of pressure to like it. Dad joked that if she didn't like it, then something's wrong with her.

Mom and I saw 27 Dresses. It was cute, but one of those movies I won't remember much about in a couple of months. There was one dress that looked like one of my mom's old bridesmaid dresses!

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Timeline by Michael Crichton
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris - currently reading
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Invisible Circus by Susan Egan
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prey by Michael Crichton
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

( Revised list )

I joined the 50bookchallenge where the goal is to read 50 books a year. I'm going to see if I can do it. I'm on my third book of the year right now. (Thanks to penny_sieve for mentioning the communinty in one of her posts!)

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Pretty Little Mistake by Heather Mcelhatton - Currently reading, but on hiatus
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle - currently reading
Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Invisible Circus by Susan Egan
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prey by Michael Crichton
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Timeline by Michael Crichton - Currently reading
Pretty Little Mistake by Heather Mcelhatton - Currently reading, but on hiatus

I really loved Watership Down, one of the best books I've ever read. Who knew a book about rabbits could be so captivating? I have to admit, it took some time to get into it (90 pages), but once the story started to pick up and I was starting to know all the rabbits (I think there's 16 or more in the story), that's when I couldn't put it down. I loved Kehaar the seagull! His accent was so cute, though for the longest time whenever he said "peeg box" or "peeg lake" I thought he was saying pig, not big. Then I realized... Man, that Efrafa warren was all kinds of scary. Kind of like a Prison Break for rabbits, heh. I had no idea that rabbits only live for 2-3 years. I know they have a lot of predators, but I figured they can usually run away pretty fast. Whenever I see a rabbit, I'm going to think of Hazel and Fiver or Pipkin...I loved Pipkin! He was so cute.

( spoiler for those who haven't read the book )