Sunday, April 10, 2011

Let's Review, Redux

We're 100 days in, so it's a good time for another look back at the recommendations so far in 2011. Unlike the first retrospective, which lists the first 50 recommendations in the order they were posted, I thought I'd try something different. Please let me know if it's helpful!




Books

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Adams, Douglas. The Salmon of Doubt

Atkinson, Kate. Case Histories

Atkinson, Kate. One Good Turn

Baldwin, James. Going to Meet the Man

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson

Bonfiglioli, Kyril. Don't Point That Thing at Me

Buckley, Christopher. Thank You for Smoking

Bull, Emma. Territory

Clarke, John. The Tournament

Crane, Elizabeth. When the Messenger Is Hot

Crispin, Edmund. The Moving Toyshop

Crombie, Deborah. Dreaming of the Bones

Dennis, Patrick. Auntie Mame

Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend

Dunn, Mark. Ella Minnow Pea

Fitzgerald, Penelope. The Gate of Angels

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton

Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm

Gilchrist, Ellen. Nora Jane: A Life in Stories

Gilman, Rebecca. Boys Gets Girl

Gopnik, Adam. Paris to the Moon

Gorey, Edward. Ascending Peculiarity

Haddon, Mark. A Spot of Bother

Hecht, Julie. Happy Trails to You

Hunt, Rebecca. Mr. Chartwell

Langer, Adam. Crossing California

Laurie, Hugh. The Gun Seller

Lovesey, Peter. The Reaper

Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train

Marsh, Ngaio. Death and the Dancing Footman

Marx, Patricia. Him Her Him Again The End of Him

Maupin, Armistead. Tales of the City

Mitchell,  David. Black Swan Green

McPhee, Jenny. No Ordinary Matter

Moriarty, Jacyln. Feeling Sorry for Celia

Olson, Shannon. Children of God Go Bowling

O'Nan, Stewart. Last Night at the Lobster

Orlean, Susan. Saturday Night

Park, Ed. Personal  Days

Perry, Anne. The Face of a Stranger

Rakoff, David. Don't Get too Comfortable

Runyon, Damon. Guys and Dolls

Ryan, Kay. The Best of It

Saunders, George. The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

Seligman, Craig. Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me

Sharp, Adrienne. White Swan, Black Swan

Shaw, Goerge Bernard. Misalliance

Slater, Lauren. Opening Skinner's Box

Spark, Muriel. Loitering with Intent

Szymborska, Wislawa. Monologue of a Dog

Tanen, Sloane. Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same

Tey, Josephine. Miss Pym Disposes

Thirkell, Angela. Summer Half

Tinti, Hannah. The Good Thief

Visser, Margaret. The Rituals of Dinner

Von Arnim, Elizabeth. Christopher and Columbus

Vowell, Sarah. Take the Cannoli

Winterson, Jeanette. The Passion

Willis, Connie. To Say Nothing of the Dog

Wodehouse, P.G. Cocktail Time

Woolf, Virginia. Freshwater: A Comedy

Woolrich, Cornell. I Married a Dead Man

Zindel, Paul. The Undertaker's Gone Bananas

Zuravleff, Mary Kay. The Bowl Is Already Broken


DVDs, Movies

Away We Go

Born Yesterday

Brick

Camp

Charade

Cherish

The Fall

The Gift

Happy Accidents

Harold and Maude

Inconscientes (Unconscious)

Kamikaze Girls

Micmacs

A Midwinter's Tale

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Mumford

A New Leaf

The Palm Beach Story

The Princess and the Warrior

Rage

Rope

Shadow of a Doubt

Wait Until Dark

What's Up, Doc?


DVDs, TV Shows

Black Books

The Catherine Tate Show

Northern Exposure, season one

Shameless, series one

Wonderfalls, season one


DVDs, Miscellaneous



The Up series


Websites

Hark! A Vagrant

Hyperbole and a Half 

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