Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2009

#12--Watch 50 TV Episodes on DVD

Would so love to get some of these shows watched...

1. The Wire "Lessons"
2. The Wire "Game Day"
3. The Wire "The Cost"
4. The Wire "The Hunt"
5. The Wire "Cleaning Up"
6. The Wire "Sentencing"
7. The Wire "Ebb Tide"
8. The Wire "Collateral Damage"
9. The Wire "Hot Shots"
10. The Wire "Hard Cases"
11. The Wire "Undertow"
12. The Wire "All Prologue"
13. The Wire "Backwash"
14. The Wire "Duck and Cover"
15. The Wire "Stray Rounds"
16. The Wire "Storm Warnings"
17. The Wire "Bad Dreams"
18. The Wire "Port in a Storm"
19. The Wire "Time After Time"
20. The Wire "All Due Respect"
21. The Wire "Dead Soldiers"
22. The Wire "Hamsterdam"

#13--Watch 50 Documentaries

Wish I'd thought of this one sooner, as I've watched several already this year. But since I love them, I'm hoping this won't be too hard to accomplish anyway.

1. Who Gets to Call It Art? (December 2009)
2. The People Paradox (January 2010)
3. King Corn (February 2010)
4. Food, Inc. (February 2010)
5. The Future of Food (February 2010)
6. Time of Fear (March 2010)

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

#19--Read 50 Award-Winning Books

Any book award. Hopefully a variety.

1. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara *Pulitzer Prize* (8/6/08)
2. Looking for Alaska by John Green *Printz Award* (late Dec. of '08)
3. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang *Printz Award* (early March of '09)
4. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Prachett *Carnegie Medal* (late March of '09)
5. Fax From Sarajevo by Joe Kubert *Eisner Award* (early April of '09)
6. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo *Christopher Award* (4/18/09)
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon *Costa/Whitbread Award and Alex Award* (early May of '09)

**Period where I possibly missed recording some.

8. The Golden Compass *Carnegie Medal* by Philip Pullman (1/1/10)
9. Out of the Dust *Newbery Medal* by Karen Hesse (1/5/10)

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

#23--Read 50 Books from the Library

I've been so bad about buying books lately, so maybe this goal will help me cut down on that a bit.

1. Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman (7/19/08)
2. Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon (7/24/08)
3. The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer (8/20/08)
4. Daphne du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre (9/22/08)
5. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper (11/7/08)
6. The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell (11/10/08)

*Long period of forgetting to record them here.*

7. The Sandman: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman (6/20/09)
8. The Golden Phoenix and Other French-Canadian Fairy Tales by Marius Barbeau, retold by Michael Hornyansky (7/24/09)
9. Pedro and Me by Judd Winick (8/8/09)
10. Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg (8/13/09)

*Long period of forgetting to record them here.*

Saturday, July 12, 2008

#25--Read and Recycle 50 Magazines

This won't even take care of my unread stack, but it will put a good dent in it.

1-3. August 7-8, 2009
4-7. August 11, 2009

Friday, June 27, 2008

#26--Read 50 Folktales/Fairy Tales

I so enjoyed this unit in homeschooling last year, and this is a good way to ensure I don't let them fall by the wayside.

1. "The Golden Phoenix" (July 2009)
2. "The Princess of Tomboso" (July 2009)
3. "The Fairy Quite Contrary" (July 2009)
4. "Scurvyhead" (July 2009)
5. "Sir Goldenhair" (July 2009)
6. "The Fountain of Youth" (July 2009)
7. "Jacques the Woodcutter" (July 2009)
8. "The Sly Thief of Valenciennes" (July 2009)
9. "The Story of the Eldest Princess" by A.S. Byatt (November 2009)

Sunday, June 22, 2008

#27--Read 50 Books That Aren't on a Challenge List

Yeah...an excuse to get in some "whim" reading!

1. Boris by Cynthia Rylant (6/29/08)
2. The Golden Phoenix and Other French-Canadian Fairy Tales by Marius Barbeau, retold by Michael Hornyansky (7/24/09)
3. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (1/5/10)

Sunday, June 15, 2008

#32-Read a Book Set in Each of the 50 States.

Since I can't visit each state in person, I'll visit amidst the pages.

1. California: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (6/28/09)
2. New Jersey: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. *reread* by Judy Blume (6/29/08)
3. Alabama: Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon (7/24/08)

***Long gap of not remembering to record.

4. Washington: Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule (January 2009)
5. Massachusetts: The Crucible (January 2009)
6. New York: The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (April 2009)
7. South Carolina: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd *reread* (June 2009)

***Long gap of not remembering to record.

8. Oklahoma: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (January 2010)

#33-Read 50 Non-Fiction Books.

Self-explanatory.

1. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People by Robert S. Desowitz (6/28/08)
2. Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters (7/5/08)
3. 50 Reasons To Buy Fair Trade by Miles Litvinoff and John Madeley (10/23/08)
4. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper (11/7/08)

***Period of forgetting to record.

5. Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule (Jan. '09)
6. Science and Society by Robert Snedden (Jan. '09)
7. Tanzania by Joan Vos MacDonald (Jan. '09)
8. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole (Jan. '09)
9. In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta A. Ahmed, MD (Feb. '09)
10. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby (Feb. '09)
11. Dictatorships: Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe by James R. Arnold and Roberta Wiener (Feb. '09)
12. House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb (March '09)
13. Lives of the Artists: Masterpieces, Messes (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull (March '09)
14. Poverty: What If We Do Nothing? by Cath Senker (March '09)
15. Fax From Sarajevo by Joe Kubert (April 2009)
16. George & Sam: Two Boys, One Family, and Autism by Charlotte Moore (April 2009)
17. South Africa by Ettagale Blauer and Jason Laure (April 2009)
18. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby (May '09)
Young Adult Non-Fiction:
19. Chew on This by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson (May '09)
20. The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA by Mark Schultz (May '09)
21. Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee by Dean Cycon (June '09)
22. No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa interviews by Tim McKee and photographs by Anne Blackshaw (June '09)
23. Focus on Afghanistan (World in Focus Series) by Nikki Van Der Gaag (June '09)
24. Pedro and Me by Judd Winick (August '09)

***Period of forgetting to record.

#34-Read 50 Kid Lit/YA Books.

Self-explanatory.

1. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (6/28/08)
2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (6/29/08)
3. Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon (7/24/08)
4. The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer (8/20/08)
5. The Witches by Roald Dahl (9/23/08)
6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (10/18/08)
7. The Floods: Good Neighbors by Colin Thompson (10/28/08)
8. The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell (11/10/08)

***Period of forgetting to record.

9. A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti (Jan. '09)
10. Amulet: Book One The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi (Feb. 2009)
11. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (March 2009)
12. Looking for Bobowicz by Daniel Pinkwater (March 2009)
13. The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg (March 2009)
14. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (March 2009)
15. The Dead & The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (April 2009)
16. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (April 2009)
17. The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech (April 2009)
18. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (April 2009)
19. The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot (May 2009)
20. The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater (May 2009)
21. Samuel Blink and Forbidden Forest by Matt Haig (June 2009)
22. Legend of Chun Hyang by CLAMP (June 2009)
23. The Garden of Eve by K.L. Going (July 2009)
24. Nation by Terry Pratchett (July 2009)
25. Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg (August 2009)

***Period of forgetting to record.

26. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (January 2010)
27. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (January 2010)

#35-Read 50 Short Stories.

Self-explanatory.

1. "Where I Live" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (6/28/08)
2. "Theo Duga's Cab" by Don Norum (Aug. '08)
3. "The evolution of trickster stories among the dogs of North Park after the Change" by Kij Johnson (Aug. '08)
4. "Don't Look Now" by Daphne du Maurier (Sept. '08)
5. "The Apple Tree" by Daphne du Maurier (Sept. '08)
6. "The Blue Lenses" by Daphne du Maurier (Sept. '08)
7. "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier (Sept. '08)
8. "The Alibi" by Daphne du Maurier (Sept. '08)
9. "Not After Midnight" by Daphne du Maurier (Sept. '08)
10. "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs (Oct. '08)
11. "Jerusalem's Lot" by Stephen King (Oct. '08)
12. "Graveyard Shift" by Stephen King (Oct. '08)
13. "Night Surf" by Stephen King (Oct. '08)
14. "I Am The Doorway" by Stephen King (Oct. '08)
15. "Gray Matter" by Stephen King (Oct. '08)
16. "Strawberry Spring" by Stephen King (Oct. '08)
17. "The Last Rung on the Ladder" by Stephen King (Nov. '08)
18. "The Man Who Loved Flowers" by Stephen King (Nov. '08)

***Period of forgetting to record.

19. "Down to a Sunless Sea" by Mathias B. Freese (1/3/09)
20. "I'll Make It, I Think" by Mathias B. Freese (1/10/09)
21. "The Father Thing" by Philip K. Dick (1/12/09)
22. "Orange" by Neil Gaiman (1/17/09)
23. "Ass-Hat Magic Spider" by Scott Westerfeld (1/17/09)
24. "The Menace From Earth" by Robert Heinlein (1/17/09)
25. "The Home Team" by Greg Wickenhofer (1/17/09)
26. "Summer All in a Day" by Ray Bradbury (1/18/09)
27. "Cheats" by Ann Halam (1/18/09)
28. "The Fluted Girl" by Paolo Bacigulupi (1/18/09)
29. "The Harvest" by Amy Hempel (1/23/09)
30. "The Surfer" by Kelly Link (1/31/09)
31. "The Chatham Bear" by Mathias B. Freese (1/31/09)
32. "Herbie" by Mathias B. Freese (2/14/09)
33. "Alabaster" by Mathias B. Freese (2/15/09)
34. "Juan Peron's Hands" by Mathias B. Freese (2/15/09)
35. "Little Errands" by Mathias B. Freese (2/16/09)
36. "Arnold Schwarzenegger's Father Was a Nazi" by Mathias B. Freese (2/17/09)
37. "Echo" by Mathias B. Freese (2/20/09)
38. "Chicxulb" by T.C. Boyle (2/23/09)
39. "Young Man" by Mathias B. Freese (3/1/09)
40. "Nicholas" by Mathias B. Freese (3/7/09)
41. "Billy's Mirrored Wall" by Mathias B. Freese (3/8/09)
42. "The Babysitter's Code" by Laura Lippman (3/9/09)
43. "Unanswerable" by Mathias B. Freese (3/12/09)
44. "For a While, Here, In this Moment" by Mathias B. Freese (3/17/09)
45. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor (3/17/09)
46. "The April Witch" by Ray Bradbury (3/21/09)
47. "Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair" by Charles de Lint (3/22/09)
48. “No One’s a Mystery” by Elizabeth Tallent (3/23/09)
49. "Repair Kit" by Stephen Baxter (7/5/09)
50. "Phantom Pain" by Lydia Peelle (8/3/09)

***GOAL ACCOMPLISHED***

#49-Watch 50 Movies.

I realize many people do that in a year's time. And as much as I love movies, I just don't seem to make much time to actually watch them. Hopefully, this will up my viewing.

1. Pandora's Clock (6/26/08)
2. Labyrinth (6/27/08)
3. Gettysburg (7/01/08)
4. Deep Impact (8/30/08)
5. Armageddon (8/30/08)
6. Fatal Vision (8/30/08)
7. Monster House (9/30/08)

***Period of forgetting to keep track.

8. The Day After (Jan. '09)
9. Apollo 13 (Feb. '09)
10. Mississippi Burning (May '09)
11. Lord of the Flies (May '09)
12. Cry Freedom (June '09)
13. Stand By Me (July '09)
14. Tightrope (July '09)
15. Dirty Harry (July '09)
16. Stargate (August '09)

***Period of forgetting to keep track.

17. Midway (March '10)