TOTAL for June 2006:

• 9 new books (.30 books per day): listened to 9, relistened to 1, lost interest in 1


• 5 new movies (.17 movies per day)


• 16 entries total (.53 entries per day)

• listened to Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton (2001)

• listened to Kindred Souls : The Friendship Of Eleanor Roosevelt And David Gurewitsch by Edna P. Gurewitsch (2003) -- first lady love triangle

• listened to Find Me by Rosie O'Donnell (2002)

• listened to Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox (2002)

• listened to What Was Civil About That War by Megan Hicks (2004)

• watched Breakfast on Pluto (2005) -- Saint Kitten


• watched Criminal (2004) -- predictable

• listened to Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie, read by Arlo (1992)

• watched Mata Hari (1931) -- see also Margaretha (Marguérite) Geertruida Zelle


• watched Waiting for Guffman (1996)

• listened to The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland (2002)

• listened to Naked by David Sedaris (2001)

• listened to The New Strong-Willed Child : Birth Through Adolescence by James Dobson (2004) -- psychology or religion? Jesus Christ cannot be the answer to every question

• relistened to Pyramids wriiten by Terry Pratchett and read by Tony Robinson (2000)

• lost interest in Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (1997)


• watched Crash (2004) -- 4 stars, not to be confused with Crash (1996)

TOTAL for May 2006:

• 17 new books (.55 books per day): listened to 15, read 2, relistened to 3, lost interest in 2


• 19 new movies (.61 movies per day)


• 41 entries total (1.3 entries per day)


• watched Bee Season (2005) -- magpie mother, spelling-induced seizures, Buddism


• watched Flightplan (2005) -- where's Julie?


• * First Amazon order!!!

• listened to The 5 Essential People Skills by Dale Carnegie Training (2004)

• lost interest in Silent Witness by Richard North Patterson (1996) -- listened to Tape 1 side A and Tape 4 side B (beginning and end), horrible


• read The Boat of Dreams : A Christmas Story by Richard Preston (2003)

• listened to How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (2001)


• * Uploaded 14 more Katadyn products to Amazon store

• listened to Mrs. Kimble written by Jennifer Haigh, read by Martha Plimpton (2003)


• watched Vodka Lemon (2003)


• * Uploaded 12 Katadyn products to Amazon store via Seller Desktop -- love it!

• read The Cobra Event by Richard Preston (1997) -- "I was looking for the men's bathroom", LOL


• watched The Woodsman (2004) -- good questions
  
  
  
  • Can a criminal be rehabilitated?
  • Is a personal all bad?
  • Can we recognize the good inside a "bad" person?
  • How prevalent is sexual abuse?
  • Do we punish sexual offenders who have been caught more than those who continue to live among us?
  • Is forgiveness possible?

• listened to The Real James Herriot : The Authorized Biography by James Wight (1999)

• watched Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)


• watched The Squid and the Whale (2005)

• listened to Let Me Go by Helga Schneider (2004) -- makes Mommie Dearest read like Dr. Spock


• listened to Naked in Baghdad : The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels by Anne Garrels (2003)

• watched Elizabethtown (2005) -- Paula Deen!


• watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

• listened to Almost There : The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain (2003)


• lost interest in Barracuda 945 by Patrick Robinson (2003) -- swarthy and broad shouldered pulp fiction, to quote an Amazon reviewer, "Why aren't negative stars available?"


• watched Cold Comfort Farm (1995)


• watched Just Like Heaven (2005)

• relistened to The Fifth Elephant written by Terry Pratchett, read by Tony Robinson (1999)


• watched Henry VIII (2003) -- political intrigue, all his life foes slipped women under him, good deathbed advice


• watched Pet Sematary (1989) -- "sometimes dead is better", the author cameos

• watched Reign of Fire (2002) -- not scary, 100% fast forward

• listened to The Case for Christ : A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel (1998) -- is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazereth really is the Son of God? Born-again author answers, yes. Hardly unbiased.

• listened to Maestro : Greenspans Fed And The American Boom by Bob Woodward (2000) -- the man does calculus to relax

• watched Everything Is Illuminated (2005) -- another quest for a ring, and dirt, and truth; endearing characters, love the dog and translations


• watched Heights (2004) -- 2 degrees of seperation is right!