Scrapbook 2011 Overview

A bit late, but I had to work a double on the 31st, 3:30-1:00am the 1st and had to work morning shift today. So needless to say, I've been going straight to bed rather than getting the computer the last few days.

I didn't hit any of my goals, but I think I did very good considering how rough 2011 was on me mentally (depression) and physically (that 2 1/2 week stretch with no time off, pulling double shifts during that time as well as during other stretches throughout the year).

So I read 32 books. That's 11 more than last year! So I've become a bit more disciplined in my reading. Which means this year I'll probably do even better.

I didn't hit 50 films, but....altogether I did watch circa 50 films. 39 films altogether, and several miniseries, shorts, and documentaries. I watched too many good films to narrow it down to 5 awesome ones, but I'll tell you 5 horrors to avoid: A Princess for Christmas, The Roommate, Monte Carlo, and Country Strong. (I've posted reviews throughout the year, so they shouldn't be too hard to find.)


Books:

1. Mistress Pat by L. M. Montgomery


2. The Chimes by Charles Dickens


3. High Spirited Women of the West by Anne Seagraves


4. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen


5. Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman edited by Barbara H. Solomon


6. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel


7. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek


8. Jackie: The Clothes of Camelot by Jay Mulvaney


9. Anne of Windy Willows by L. M. Montgomery


10. Villette by Charlotte Bronte


11. Peony in Love by Lisa See


12. Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn


13. Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda


14. The Windsor Style by Suzy Menkes


15. Jane of Lantern Hill by L. M. Montgomery


16. The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters by David Grafton


17. Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield


18. Diana, Queen of Style by Jackie Modlinger


19. Edith Head: The Fifty-year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer by Jay Jorgensen


20. Mandy by Julie Edwards


21. Lucie Babidge's House by Sylvia Cassidy


22. Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years by Hamish Bowles


23. Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery


24. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare


25. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot


26. Audrey Hepburn: a Woman, the Style edited by Stefania Ricci


27. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi


28. All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse by Martin Gottfried


29. The Blythes are Quoted by L. M. Montgomery


30. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship "Essex" by Nathaniel Philbrick


31. The Girl from Botany Bay by Carolly Erickson


32. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Movies:

1. 100 Feet


2. It Happened One Night


3. Burn After Reading


4. Bride & Prejudice


5. Inception


6. Carefree


7. True Grit


8. Black Swan


9. Pride & Prejudice


10. Tangled


11. Rope


12. Emma


13. St. Trinian's


14. The Ox-Bow Incident


15. St. Trinian's: The Legend of Fritton's Gold


16. The Wrong Man


17. Easy A


18. Chalet Girl


19. Sense and Sensibility


20. X-Men: First Class


21. Thor


22. The Roommate


23. A Single Man


24. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2


25. The Social Network


26. Country Strong


27. The Help


28. Monte Carlo


29. Cementary Junction


30. Keeping Mum


31. Third Star


32. A Room With  A View


33. Die Hard


34. Tower Heist


35. The King's Speech


36. An Education


37. Bright Star


38. Die Hard 2

Miscellaneous:

1. Wives and Daughters


2. Pride and Prejudice (1995)


3. The September Issue


4. Miss Marple: The Pale Horse


5. Daphne's Window


6. pindippy.com's "Royals"


7. A Princess for Christmas


8. Camelot, complete TV series