The List: To Read / Watch in 2007

[featherynscale]

I just closed out my book and movie list for 2006, which means it's time to start a new one. My reading rate suffered last year from the new job -- in order to carpool with triadruid, I gave up a real "lunch break", so I lose out on 30-45 minutes of reading time every day during the week. Also, now that I have a real job that I really have to do work at, the amount of church and personal work I can get done during the day has plummeted, so I have to do that in the evenings, instead of dicking around and reading. Oh well. I finished about 50 books last year (some of them didn't make it on to the list), and somehow watched 20 films (which amazes me, knowing how unlikely I am to just sit down and watch a movie).

So here's a start on what I'd like to read/see/etc for the next year:


Books
Contents of the To-Read Pile, and Books Pledged to Borrow
1. Finish Guns of the South - Harry Turtledove
2. Finish Flow - Mihaly Czikseintmihayli
3. Finish City of Falling Angels - John Berendt (I checked it out from the library last year and couldn't finish it in time, but now I seem to own a copy)
4. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (triadruid got me a copy for Winter Avarice.)
5. Mistral's Kiss - Laurell K Hamilton (orcjohn has promised to loan me his copy. Yay, smut!)
6. The God Gene - Dean Hamer
7. A handful of books about Gnosticism, Christian Mysticism, Mary Magdalene, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail, all of which have titles that are not very memorable. I think there are six or seven of these in the stack. I got into one of these book clubs, and suddenly there was a lot of this cruft available to me very inexpensively, and then, the next thing I know, I'm covered in heresies.
8. To balance out, Book of Lies - Aleister Crowley.
9. The book on alchemy in historical context that I bought when I bought the Crowley and haven't read yet. Can't remember what it was called either. Brain like a sieve, I tell you.
... and there are more. Must re-evaluate book pile.


Movies
In the Theater
1. 300
2. Ghost Rider (I know it's going to suck, and I want to see it anyway.)
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. The Number 23
5. Sunshine (story sounds really dumb, advance buzz makes it sound really good. This is not, I repeat not, a statement that I will watch Cillian Murphy in anything.)
6. Spider-Man 3 (why not?)
7. Pirates of the Caribbean 3
8. Stardust
9. The Dark is Rising (favorite YA book, Ever. Will be skipping Harry Potter and the Year-Long Suicide Watch.)
10. Beowulf. (heh.)

From the Pile of DVDs we own that I haven't seen
1. Wings of Desire
2. Wicker Man (no, I haven't. Get off my lawn.)
3. Secret Window
4. The Usual Suspects
5. The Man Who Cried (kittenpants manifested this for me. I am a sucker for the Depp/Ricci movie.)
... and everything else in the pile. Note to self: go through the DVD cabinet. Host a movie night. Maybe after basement renovations?

Comments

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[rfunk.livejournal.com]

"next thing I know, I'm covered in heresies."

A state we all aspire to.

Re: covered

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

This is not, I repeat not, a statement that I will watch Cillian Murphy in anything.

I call shenanigans!!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

In my defense, I would like to point out that IMDB lists Mr. Murphy's credited film career at 22 released and 2 pre-release projects. Of these 22 extant films, I have seen 2. (And I'd like to see Breakfast on Pluto, but it is about anarchist transvestites. I will watch any film about anarchist transvestites.)

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

twixxa recommends it highly.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

According to Bruce, who saw it this past weekend, the new Mel Gibson movie is actually alright from an archaeological standpoint. Not perfect, of course, but better than most of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood. (He was mainly watching for improbable uses of stone tools, of course...) Quite gorey, though.

Also, Dark is Rising is coming out on film? Woot! (Assuming, as ever, that they do it any justice)

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

Quite gorey, though.

Ah... Mel Gibson. I say no more.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't touch him with yours, darling.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

He was on my "could be persuaded" list, which was a demotion. But I wouldn't shag the Mel who makes gratuitously violent and gory films Mel. I'd shag the friendly puppy, romantic comedy Mel. I'm not at all sure they're the same man.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all sure they're the same man.

Sometimes I really wonder...

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

I loved the Dark is Rising, and had photocopies of the poems from the books in my desk as a child until I stopped using the desk. Might still be in the desk, actually, I'll check when I go to my parents next.