My Movies & Books in 2007

This is the second year I have kept track of movies and books on my wall calendar (here's 2006).  I only recorded books that I had read for personal enjoyment (no textbooks!) and movies that I had seen in the theater.  So, today I took down the calendar and had a look at my year in book and film.

JANUARY
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
JPod by Douglas Coupland
Borat
Pursuit of Happyness
Volver
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Queen
Babel
The Departed
The Itty Bitty Kitchen Handbook by Justin Spring
Notes on a Scandal
FEBRUARY
The Last King of Scotland
Pan’s Labrynth
Letters from Iwo Jima
Music & Lyrics
Children of Men
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind

MARCH
Because I Said So
Zodiac
The 8:55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

APRIL
The Lives of Others
Blades of Glory
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Zero by Jess Walter

MAY
Spiderman 3
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
Waitress
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Thirteen Days by Robert F Kennedy

JUNE
Knocked Up
Pirates of the Carribbean: At World’s End
Ocean’s 13
Nancy Drew
The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

JULY
Transformers
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
Ratatouille
Sicko
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
You Kill Me
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)

AUGUST
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
The Simpsons Movie
Death at a Funeral
Superbad
Becoming Jane

SEPTEMBER
Four Quarters of Light: An Alaskan Journey by Brian Keenan
Stardust
Stardust (second time)
Once
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

OCTOBER
Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury & Patton
Into the Wild
The Darjeeling Limited

NOVEMBER
The Nightmare Before Christmas – 3D
Trade
Lars and the Real Girl
America (The Book) by Jon Stewart

DECEMBER
The Best American Travel Writing ed. Susan Orlean
The Big Four by Agatha Christie
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Atonement
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Currently Reading (but not finished in 2007):
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts

P.S. (Jan 28, 08)
The worst movies were Because I Said So, Spiderman 3, and Nancy Drew.

The best books were A Long Way Down (a hilarious and uplifting story about attempted suicide), Snow (set in Turkey), The Worst Hard Time (personal stories about the Dust Bowl. National Book Award winner. Seattle author.), The Zero (excellent 9/11 fiction that never mentions 9/11. Spokane author.), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (natch), and The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Jews, chess, and Alaska. What more could you want?).