while they did live happily ever after

So my list for 2008 was really fun, because just looking back at the titles of what I'd seen/read not only recalled those particular works, but also the circumstances around them, and I find this whole list thing to be an excellent way of keeping track of the year.

Books or movies that are new to me are marked with an astrisk (*).



Books I've read:

January:
*Chalice--Robin McKinley
*Ever--Gail Carson Levine
These Happy Golden Years--Laura Ingalls Wilder
*Villa Incognito--Tom Robbins
*Star Wars:  Legacy of the Force:  Invincible--Troy Denning


February:
*Rasselas--Samuel Johnson
*Monologion--St. Anselm
*Mirador--Sarah Monette


March:
*Called out of Darkness--Anne Rice
*Watchmen--Alan Moore
*Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
*The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--Robert Louis Stevenson


April:
*Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad
Mrs Dalloway--Virginia Woolf


May:
*Bridget Jones's Diary--Helen Fielding
*Sense and Sensibility--Jane Austen
Percy Jackson Books 1-4--Rick Riordan
*The Last Olympian--Rick Riordan
*Bimbos of the Death Sun


June:
The Thief--Megan Whalen Turner
A Great and Terrible Beauty--Libba Bray
Rebel Angels--Libba Bray
*The Sweet Far Thing--Libba Bray
*Coraline--Neil Gaiman
*The Possibilities of Sainthood
*The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
*Nobody's Princess


July:
*American Heroes
*Summer of My German Soldier
*Over Sea, Under Stone--Susan Cooper
The Queen of Attolia--Megan Whalen Turner
*What Happened--Scott McClellan
*Wishful Drinking--Carrie Fisher
*The Unlikely Disciple:  A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University--Kevin Roose
*The Dark Is Rising--Susan Cooper
*The Grey King--Ibid
*Graceling--Kristin Cashore


August:
*Greenwitch--Susan Cooper
*Silver on the Tree--Susan Cooper


September:
*Secresy--Eliza Fenwick
*The Wrongs of Women--Mary Wollstonecraft


October:


November:


December:



Movies/TV Shows I've Seen:

January:
A Room with a View
*Twilight
Sabrina
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Phantom of the Opera
*Paris, Je T'aime
Beauty and the Beast
Sense and Sensibility
*2009 Notre Dame Student Film Festival
Pirates of the Caribbean:  Curse of the Black Pearl
*Baghdad High
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Once More With Feeling


February:
*Step Up
*Iron Man
Twilight
Much Ado About Nothing
WALL-E
Down With Love
*Office Space


March:
*Slumdog Millionaire
*Stardust
Much Ado About Nothing
*Harold and Maude
*Watchmen
*Penelope
*Eden
*12 Angry Men
Anastasia
Ever After
*Kingdom of Heaven



April:
*Lawrence of Arabia
*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
*Shall We Dance?
The Wedding Planner
*Meet Joe Black
Pocahontas
*Across the Universe
*Good Will Hunting
Twilight
A Fish Called Wanda
Sleeping Beauty
*Speed
*The Scarlet Pimpernel
*Casino Royale
*Far and Away
*A Few Good Men
Shakespeare in Love
Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella


May:
Mulan
*Wolverine
Mamma Mia!
*West Side Story
*Star Trek
Enchanted

June:
*Bridget Jones's Diary
*Ninotchka
Notorious
The Philadelphia Story
*Up


July:
A Streetcar Named Desire
Harold and Maude
*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
*Les Choristes
*The Ugly Truth
Gone with the Wind
National Treasure
The Incredibles


August:
*The Patsy
*Julie and Julia
*North by Northwest
Chocolat


September:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
A Room with a View
*Vanaja
Notorious
Bridget Jones's Diary
The Princess Bride
Rent
*Miracle
Up
*To Have and Have Not


October:
*Mr. and Mrs. Smith


November:


December:



Theatre/Concerts/Random Events that are Worth Remembering:

January:
Tim Robbins
1984
AFLS: Much Ado About Nothing
Les plus heureux de trois



February:
L.A. Theatre Works Presents The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
Czech Symphony Orchestra
Undertones Reunion Concert


March:


April:
Bear's Art Show
PEMCO Revue
Beatrice et Benedick


May:
The Undertones


June:


July:


August:
The King and I


September:
Actors from the London Stage--King Lear


October:
Hamlet (starring Jude Law and Kevin R. McNally)
A Steady Rain (Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig)


November:


December: