I feel like I'm gonna break this damn' thing

[robling_t]

rollick has an interesting idea, here; I'll give it a go, although I fully expect to either A) lose track and/or forget I'm doing this within a couple of weeks, or B) quickly exceed LJ's text-limit, given the rate at which I go through library books...



Media consumed in 2006

January: 18 books, 2 films

BOOKS:

• Metallic Love, Tanith Lee
  
• Class Dis-MYTHed, Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye
  
• Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 18th annual
  
• the Experts' Guide to Life at Home
  
• New Rules, Bill Maher
  
• Spunk & bite : a writer's guide to punchier, more engaging language & style, Arthur Plotnik
  
• The trouble with Tom : the strange afterlife and times of Thomas Paine, Paul Collins
  
• Peoples of the World
  
• Imperial ambitions, Noam Chomsky
  
• Eyewitness Companions: Trees
  
• Wild things, Charles Coleman Finlay
  
• The sinking of the Eastland : America's forgotten tragedy, Jay Bonansinga
  
• The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks
  
• Agent to the stars, John Scalzi
  
• The Narnian : the life and imagination of C.S. Lewis, Alan Jacobs
  
• Death and the sun : a matador's season in the heart of Spain, Edward, Lewine
  
• Dressing a galaxy : the costumes of Star Wars
  
• The root of wild madder : chasing the history, mystery, and lore of the Persian carpet, Brian Murphy
  
  

FILMS:

• X-MEN 2
  
• A Day Without A Mexican
  

February: 14 books, 4 films

BOOKS:

• Fledgling, Octavia Butler
  
• The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
  
• America's most hated woman : the life and gruesome death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Ann Rowe Seaman
  
• Great tales from English history [Volume 2], Robert Lacey
  
• 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus, Charles Mann
  
• Rescue me, he's wearing a moose hat : and 40 other dates after 50, Sherry Halperin
  
• Breakfast with Tiffany : a memoir, Edwin John Wintle
  
• The conception chronicles : the uncensored truth about sex, love & marriage when you're trying to get pregnant
  
• Ingenious gadgets : guess the obscure purpose of over 100 eccentric contraptions, Maurice Collins
  
• Rebuilt : how becoming part computer made me more human, Michael Chorost
  
• Music to my sorrow, Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill
  
• Galileo's children : tales of science vs. superstition
  
• Monkeyluv : and other essays on our lives as animals, Robert M. Sapolsky
  
• The roots of desire : the myth, meaning, and sexual power of red hair, Marion Roach
  
  

FILMS:

• Corpse Bride
  
• The Life Aquatic
  
• Wallace & Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  
• Mirrormask
  
  

March: 12 books, 9 films

BOOKS:

• Fourth planet from the Sun : tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy&ScienceFiction
  
• Marly's Ghost, David Levithan
  
• The wizard of London, Mercedes Lackey
  
• Fog facts : searching for truth in the land of spin, Larry Beinhart
  
• Old Twentieth, Joe Haldeman
  
• Hammered, Elizabeth Bear
  
• Doctor Who novelisation: Mawdryn Undead
  
• Pretender, CJ Cherryh
  
• Self-made man : one woman's journey into manhood and back again, Norah Vincent
  
• The devil's picnic : around the world in pursuit of forbidden fruit, Taras Grescoe
  
• Adrian Mole : the cappuccino years, Sue Townsend
  
• Amber and iron, Margaret Weis
  
  
  
• Re-read: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
  

FILMS:

• The Wicker Man
  
• Equilibrium
  
• Howl's Moving Castle
  
• Hang 'Em High
  
• Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
  
• The Commitments
  
• Good Night & Good Luck
  
• Ice Age
  
• Walk the Line
  
  

April: 15 books, 5 films

BOOKS:

• Adrian Mole and the weapons of mass destruction, Sue Townsend
  
• The commitment : love, sex, marriage, and my family, Dan Savage
  
• Cut! : Hollywood murders, accidents and other tragedies
  
• Boy meets boy, David Levithan
  
• The comic worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg, Iain Topliss
  
• The big over easy , Jasper Fforde
  
• Harrowing the dragon , Patricia McKillip
  
• The carpet makers, Andreas Eschbach
  
• How the Republicans stole Christmas : the Republican Party's declared monopoly on religion and what Democrats can do to take it back, Bill Press
  
• Many skies : alternative histories of the sun, moon, planets, and stars, Arthur Upgren
  
• Shoes : what every woman should know, Stephanie Pedersen
  
• Just around the corner : the paradox of the jobless recovery, Stan Aronowitz
  
• Is the American dream killing you? : how "the market" rules our lives, Paul Stiles
  
• Bodies and souls : the tragic plight of three Jewish women forced into prostitution in the Americas, Isabel Vincent
  
• Crunchy cons : how Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party), Rod Dreher
  

FILMS:

• Charlie and the chocolate factory
  
• Brokeback Mountain
  
• Bubba Ho-Tep
  
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
  
• The Omen (yes, for some reason this is the first time I ever managed to sit all the way through it)
  

May: 13 books, 1 film

BOOKS:

• The year of yes : a memoir, Maria Headley
  
• The truth (with jokes), Al Franken
  
• 99 ways to tell a story : exercises in style, Matt Madden
  
• Julie and Julia : 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen : how one girl risked her marriage, her job, and her sanity to master the art of living, Julie Powell
  
• Talk to the hand : the utter bloody rudeness of the world today, or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door, Lynne Truss
  
• Freemasons for dummies, Christopher Hodapp
  
• I capture the castle, Dodie Smith
  
• Not buying it : my year without shopping, Judith Levine
  
• Stranger at the wedding, Barbara Hambly
  
• AA Gill is away, A. A. Gill
  
• The wizard lord, Lawrence Watt-Evans
  
• Festivus : the holiday for the rest of us, Allen Salkin
  
• Between the lines : master the subtle elements of fiction writing, Jessica Page Morrell
  

FILMS:

• Millions
  

June: 16 books, 2 films

BOOKS:

• The May queen : women on life, love, work, and pulling it all together in your 30s
  
• The A-Z of classic computer games, Jack Railton
  
• Cat people, Margaret Korda
  
• The wedding : [150 years of down-the-aisle style], Paul Atterbury
  
• Burn, James Patrick Kelly
  
• Not in Kansas anymore : a curious tale of how magic is transforming America, Christine Wicker
  
• Take it back : our party, our country, our future, James Carville
  
• The Ig Nobel prizes 2 : an all-new collection of the world's unlikeliest research, Marc Abrahams
  
• One good knight , Mercedes Lackey
  
• Fooled again : how the Right stole the 2004 election and why they'll steal the next one too (unless we stop them), Mark Crispin Miller
  
• Useful idiots, Jan Mark
  
• Magic or madness, Justine Larbalestier
  
• Magic lessons, Justine Larbalestier
  
• Luxury knitting : the ultimate guide to exquisite yarns--cashmere, merino, silk, Linda Morse
  
• Both sides now : one man's journey through womanhood, Dhillon Khosla
  
• Once upon a time (she said), Jane Yolen
  
  
  
• Re-read: Wyrd sisters, Terry Pratchett
  

FILMS:

• Transamerica
  
• The Producers [2005]
  

July: 18 books, 2 films

BOOKS:

• House thinking : a room-by-room look at how we live, Winifred Gallagher
  
• To hell with all that : loving and loathing our inner housewife, Caitlin Flanagan
  
• Oops : 20 life lessons from the fiascos that shaped America, Martin Smith
  
• A brother's price, Wen Spencer
  
• Generation me : why today's young Americans are more confident, assertive, entitled- and more miserable than ever before, Jean M Twenge
  
• The heartless stone : a journey through the world of diamonds, deceit, and desire, Tom Zoellner
  
• Wrigleyworld : a season in baseball's best neighborhood, Kevin Kaduk
  
• Maximum Ride : the angel experiment, James Patterson
  
• The spotter's guide to the male species, Juliette Wills
  
• The I hate the 21st century reader : the awful, the annoying, and the absurd--from ethnic cleansing to Frankenscience
  
• Sex, drugs and DNA : science's taboos confronted, Michael Stebbins
  
• Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
  
• Hidden, Victoria Lustbader
  
• Elemental : the Tsunami relief anthology : stories of science fiction and fantasy
  
• The culture code : an ingenious way to understand why people around the world buy and live as they do, Clotaire Rapaille
  
• Only you can save mankind , Terry Pratchett
  
• When sex goes to school : warring views on sex--and sex education--since the sixties, Kristin Luker
  
• Pretties, Scott Westerfeld
  

FILMS:

• Syriana
  
• Spider-man 2
  

August: 18 books, 5 films

BOOKS:

• Fall of knight, Peter David
  
• Double crossed : uncovering the Catholic Church's betrayal of American nuns, Kenneth Briggs
  
• Stealing democracy : the new politics of voter suppression, Spencer Overton
  
• Alligators, old mink & new money : one woman's adventures in vintage clothing, Alison Houtte
  
• Beau Brummell : the ultimate man of style, Ian Kelly
  
• Kindling, Mick Farren
  
• Foundling, D. M. Cornish
  
• Specials, Scott Westerfeld
  
• An incomplete education : 3,684 things you should have learned but probably didn't
  
• His Majesty's dragon, Naomi Novik
  
• Air, or, Have not have, Geoff Ryman
  
• The two-income trap : why middle-class mothers and fathers are going broke, Elizabeth Warren
  
• The wand in the word : conversations with writers of fantasy
  
• Resenting the hero, Moira Moore
  
• Dark Mondays, Kage Baker
  
• Dragons of the dwarven depths, Margaret Weis
  
• Mason-Dixon knitting : the curious knitters' guide : stories, patterns, advice, opinions, questions, answers, jokes, and pictures
  
• The line between, Peter S. Beagle
  
  

FILMS:

• I capture the castle
  
• The Village
  
• Fiddler on the Roof
  
• Paycheck
  
• SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie
  

September: 8 books, 1 film

BOOKS:

• The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals, Michael Pollan
  
• House poor : pumped-up prices, rising rates, and mortgages on steroids, June Fletcher
  
• Stumbling and raging : more politically inspired fiction
  
• Generation debt : why now is a terrible time to be young, Anya Kamenetz
  
• Green with envy : why keeping up with the Joneses is keeping us in debt, Shira Boss
  
• Throne of Jade, Naomi Novik
  
• Black Powder War, Naomi Novik
  
• Hung : a meditation on the measure of Black men in America, Scott Poulson-Bryant
  

FILMS:

• V for Vendetta
  

October: 18 books, 4 films

BOOKS:

• James Tiptree, Jr. : the double life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips
  
• The Academy Awards : the complete unofficial history, Gail Kinn
  
• The chains that you refuse , Elizabeth Bear
  
• The fifty greatest cartoons : as selected by 1,000 animation professionals
  
• A separate war and other stories , Joe Haldeman
  
• Hostile takeover : how big money & corruption conquered our government--and how we take it back, David Sirota
  
• Conservatives without conscience, John Dean
  
• Champagne : how the world's most glamorous wine triumphed over war and hard times, Don Kladstrup
  
• The connoisseur's guide to sushi : everything you need to know about sushi varieties and accompaniments, etiquette and dining tips, and more, Dave Lowry
  
• The privilege of the sword, Ellen Kushner
  
• Homeland, R. A. Salvatore
  
• The chocolate connoisseur : for everyone with a passion for chocolate, Chloé Doutre-Roussel
  
• Don't leave me this way : or when I get back on my feet you'll be sorry, Julia Fox Garrison
  
• The scavenger's guide to haute cuisine, Steven Rinella
  
• Homeland, R. A. Salvatore
  
• Sojourn, R. A. Salvatore
  
• The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism, Richard Sennett
  
• Birth : the surprising history of how we are born , Tina Cassidy
  

FILMS:

• The outlaw Josey Wales
  
• the Stepford Wives [2004]
  
• X-Men 3: The Last Stand
  
• Little Lord Fauntleroy
  

November: 11 books, 2 films

BOOKS:

• Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett
  
• Hothouse kids : the dilemma of the gifted child, Alissa Quart
  
• Feeling very strange : the Slipstream anthology
  
• The moral center : how we can reclaim our country from die-hard extremists, rogue corporations, Hollywood hacks,and pretend patriots, David Callahan
  
• Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones
  
• How the pro-choice movement saved America : freedom, politics, and the war on sex, Cristina Page
  
• Rejuvenile : kickball, cartoons, cupcakes, and the reinvention of the American grown-up, Christopher Noxon
  
• Farthing, Jo Walton
  
• The long emergency : surviving the end of oil, climate change, and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century, James Howard Kunstler
  
• The ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world, Steven Johnson
  
• Bungalow details : interior, Jane Powell
  

FILMS:

• La Belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast)
  
• March of the Penguins
  

December: 17 books, 9 films

BOOKS:

• Everybody loves pizza : the deep dish on America's favorite food , Penny Pollack
  
• The complete cartoons of the New Yorker
  
• Stork naked, Piers Anthony
  
• Get to work : a manifesto for women of the world, Linda R. Hirshman
  
• Fantasy : the best of the year
  
• See Delphi and die : a Marcus Didius Falco novel, Lindsey Davis
  
• My pet virus : the true story of a rebel without a cure, Shawn Decker
  
• WebMage, Kelly McCullough
  
• Variable star, Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson
  
• Why do pirates love parrots?, David Feldman
  
• Glasshouse, Charles Stross
  
• Play money : or, How I quit my day job and made millions trading virtual loot, Julian Dibbell
  
• Fantasy gone wrong
  
• Knit fix : problem solving for knitters, Lisa Kartus
  
• The idler book of crap jobs : 100 tales of workplace hell
  
• Doonesbury, the war years : Peace out, Dawg! and Got war?, G. B. Trudeau
  
• Thumbs, toes, and tears : and other traits that make us human, Chip Walter
  

FILMS:

• 11:14
  
• CSA: Confederate States of America
  
• In & Out
  
• Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
  
• Splitting Heirs
  
• Steamboy
  
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  
• Zardoz
  
• Casanova
  

TOTAL: 178 books, 46 films