A look at how I diverted myself in 2009.
Books
BEST BOOKS I READ (OR REREAD) IN 2009, listed in the order I completed them:
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison by Henry Adams
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire, trans. by Theo Cuffe
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown by Leszek Kolakowski, trans. by PS Falla
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, trans. by Edith Grossman
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
The Plot against America by Philip Roth
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, ed. by Brian Gibbons
Palimpsest by Gore Vidal
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
Plays
BEST PRODUCTIONS I SAW THIS YEAR:
1. Stupid Kids (About Face Theatre)
2. An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening (Theater Oobleck)
Movies
FAVORITE NEW FILM OF 2009:
Summer Hours
FAVORITE OLD FILMS I SAW ON THE BIG SCREEN, listed in the order I saw them:
Two Women (dir. De Sica)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
The Wizard of Oz 70th anniversary screening (Fleming)
The Phantom of the Opera (Julian)
The Women (Cukor)
Men
PEOPLE I SPENT THE MOST TIME LUSTING AFTER, in no particular order:
James Franco
Jake Gyllenhaal
Mark Salling
Hugh Jackman
Primary Interests, in no particular order
The CTA, the future, the bizarre, my family, incarceration in the US, evangelicals, my health, theater people, the past, animals, cubicle life, Glee, the BFF, Kito, fiction, politics.
Fool's Four
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS I MADE AT THIS SITE AND PROMPTLY BROKE:
1. "I resolve to eat three servings of vegetables every day" (2007).
2. "I resolve to eliminate superfluous use of the word 'like' from my conversation" (2007).
3. "I resolve to prepare my own dinner at least four times a week" (2008) [ed. ha!]
4. "I resolve to cut Diet Coke from my diet" (2009).
Glitter
Happy New Year, everybody!
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