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?

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