Books, Movies, Shows
Winter 2017-Spring 2018
Hamilton (again)
Island in the Sun (movie – Harry Belafonte)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Lady Bird
To Kill a Mockingbird
Night
Of Mice and Men
Home Again (Reece Witherspoon)
Admissions (Play)
Mean Girls (Play)
Spongbob (Play)
Fall 2017
Every Soul a Star (stopped disk 2 – basic writing – not descriptive enough) Note to self Ray Bradbury book about the girl who missed the sun.)
Summer 2017
A Borrowed Identity (Israeli Film – Book by Arab Israeli)- *****
We are Made of Molecules – Stewart
Hamilton – July 2, 2017 broadway show
Tangerine (For School)
Friends Binge
Pretty Little Liars Binge
Spring 2017
Groundhog Day – B-way
Looking for Alaska – Boarding School-Southern, last words, death, religion, vices, I go to seek my great perhaps (argued to be François Rabelais last words.)
Girl in Blue Dress _ Historical Fiction
Seasons 1.2.3.4 Pretty Little Liars
The Age of Miracles
Many Dr. Whos and MLP – Watching many years, but putting down for first time, I think.
February 2017
Schindler’s List
Cupcake (Israeli film)
Outsiders (reading again for school)
January 2017
Divergent – Veronica Roth
Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell
Seedfolk Paul Fleischman (school)
Outsiders (again – School)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Hebrew)
Harry Potter 3 And the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter 4 and the goblet of fire
December 2016
When Marnie was Here
Fangirl Rainbow Rowell (audio book on school bus)
Everything Everything (book on tape mom’s car)
Edward Scissor-hands – 5 stars
Stolen Christmas – 1 star (really bad – can’t believe we watch to the end)
Back to the Future 1 – 5 stars
Back to the Future 2 – 3 stars
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (I’m late and have to catch up)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes (book report coming soon)
Life Animated (Movie) – 3 stars (special needs)
The Popularity Papers (fun book) – Amy Ignatow The Long Distance Dispatch Between Julie and Lydia.
The Popularity Papers (fun book) – Research for Social Improvement
Seedfolk – Paul Fleischman and Judy Pedersen
November 2016
The Soloist (movie) 2 stars
The Internship 5 stars – Older guys getting a job and working at Google – funny
My Favorite Year
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The History Channel – Salem Witch Trials
How We Got to Now
Truth in Numbers? Everything According to Wikipedia
October 2016
Jazz Singer – 3 stars
Fried Green Tomatoes – 4 stars
Borne Identity – 4 stars
We Were Liars – E lockhart
Charles and Emma – Deborah Heiligman
Three days of the Condor – 4 stars
Scat – Carl Hiaasen
Metropolis _ Osamu Tezuka
September 2016
Hello My Name is Frank and I have Tourettes (Movie 3.5 stars)
Sinners and Saints (Movie – mini series 4 stars)
Fault of our stars, John Green
Summer 2016
Phoenix A Tale of the Future Osamu Tezuka
Keeping up with the Steins (Movie)
Keeping the Faith (Movie)
If I Ever Get out of Here Eric Gansworth
Fever 1793 – Laurie Halse Anderson
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
An American in Paris
Mark Morris – Mozart Lincoln Center
Finding Neverland
An American Plague Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793- Jim Murphy
The Secret Life of Pets
Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec ( 2 stars)
The River – Gary Paulsen
First Daughter (Katie Holmes) – 1 star
Hoot Carl Hiaasen
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
A Mango-Shaped Space – Wendy Mass
The Thieving Magpie Opera
Finding Neverland Broadway Show
Finding Dory
Barefoot in the Park – Neil Simon Play
Biloxi Blues – Neil Simon Play
Brighton Beach memoirs – Neil Simon Play
The Rose Society – Marie Lu
The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick
May 2016
Phoebe and her Unicorn: Unicorn on a Roll by Dana Simpson
Unicorn vs/Goblins Dana Simpson
The Young Elites
If I Stay
April May 2016
Outsiders
Nimona
Finding Audrey Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholics & Sister – Sophie Kinsella
Breakfast Club
January/February 2016
Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
Legend (Marie Lu)
Sabrina (Old Movie)
If A Tree Falls at Lunch (Gennifer Choldenko)
The Young Elites by Marie Lu
the Last Unicorn
Hope was Here
The Lightning Thief
November December 2015
The Goose Girl
All of Edgar Allan Poe, even the book by Avi.
Petey
YoYo Ma
Waiting for Normal, Leslie Conner
October – 2015
American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
Sept. 2015
Red Planet
All the Bright Places
ECHO – Pam Munoz Ryan – 5 stars
Atlantis – The Lost EmpireThe Dog Who Saved Summer
Peak – Roland Smith
June-July-August 2015
A Girl Named Digit – Monaghan
LEGEND The graphic novel – Marie Lu
Into The Dark – Peter Abrahams
Behind the Curtain – Peter Abrahams
Down the Rabbit Hole – Peter Abrahams
An Abundance of Katherines
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
Counting by 7’s By Holly Goldberg Sloan –
The Sherlock Files – Tracy Barrett –
Pokemon Adventures Vol. 17 – Hidenori Kusaka –
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong –
May 2015
Spy Catchers of Maple Hill (Audio) 5 stars
Pokémon Adventures -10
Pokémon Adventures -11
Pokémon Adventures -12
Pokémon Adventures -13
Pokémon Adventures -14
Pokémon Adventures -15
Pokémon Adventures -16
April 2015
Pokemon Adventures – 1
Pokemon Adventures – 2
Pokemon Adventures – 3
Pokemon Adventures -4
Pokemon Adventures – 5
Pokemon Adventures – 6
Pokemon Adventures – 7
Pokemon Adventures – 8
Pokemon Adventures – 9
The Land of Stories a Grimm Warning – Chris Colfer’s
Counting By 7s – Holley Goldberg
Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle
Bone Book 1
Bone Book 2
Bone – Eyes of the Storm – Jeff Smith
The Blue Fairy Book
The Stonekeepers curse
The Cloud Searchers – Kiduishi Kazau
March 2015
Pi in the Sky
Big Majoko Adventure – machiko fuji and manga by tomomi mizuna
The Land of Stories – Chris Colfer’s
Call of the Wild
Comic Squad Recess
How to draw Manga
Feb 2015
A Book Without Words – Avi
Earthling
Absolutely Almost – Lisa Graff
January 2015
Out of my Mind (reading again for a book club)
Pandemonium by Chris Wooding and Cassandra Diaz
Dumbest Idea Ever! Jimmy Gownley
Bud, not Buddy
Bye for Now: A Wishers Story
Jellaby The lost Monster
Tommysaurus Rex – Doug TenNapel
December 2014
The Secret School – Avi
November 2014
Sophia’s War – Avi
Treasure Hunters – Danger Down the Nile – James Patterson and chris grabenstein
The Meaning of Life – Jimmy Gownley
Ghostopolis – Doug TenNapel
Flora and Ulysess
The Chocolate Wars
City of Orphans
Oct 2014
Sign of the Beaver
The one rule of pet club – Geoff Johns
Wonder – RJ Palacio
Three cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson
Sept 2014
Astronaut Academy Re-Entry Dave Roman
Sisters Raina Telgemeier
Lunch Lady and the schoolwide scuffles – Jarrett Krosoczka
Sean Rosen is not for sale
Sign of the Beaver
Astronaut Academy Zero Gravity – Dave Roman
August 2014
Sisters Grim – Michael Buckley
Diary of Anne Frank
Click Here – Denise Vega
July 2014
A Wrinkle in Time (Madelein L’Engle’s) The Graphic Novel Adapted and Illustrated by Hope Larson
The Red Pony Steinbeck (Steinbeck)
The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
Sisters Grim
June 2014
Flatland
The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz
School for Good and Evil, Book 2 World without Princes (Soman Chainani)
May 2014
Hallow City – Ransom Riggs
April 2014
Cardboard – Doug TenNapel
The Candy Smash – Jaqueline Davies
The View from Saturday E. L. Konigsburg
Pi in the Sky – Wendy Mass
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
March 2014
Panic: Sharon M. Draper
February 2014
The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop – (mentions Dr. Who)
Doll Bones – Holly Black (Book club at VC Library)
Wind and the Willow – Kenneth Grahame
Greek Mythology – Napoli, Donna Jo,
Poems to Learn by Heart – Caroline Kennedy
City of Embers – Graphic Novel -by Jeanne DuPrau, Dallas Middaugh,
Origami Yoda – The Surprise Attack of Jabba the puppertt – Tom Angleberger
Out of My Mind: Sharon M. Draper
January 2014
The Prophet of Yonwood – Jeanne DuPrau
LEO GEO by Jon Chad
Origamii Yoda – The surprise attack of Jabba the puppertt – Tom Angleberger
Never Ending Story
Matilda – Roald Daul
Diamonds of Darkhold – Jeanne DuPrau (Audio)
November/December 2013
Big Nate Game On – Lincoln Peirce
How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli and Snake Hill by James Patterson – JRE
The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke
The City of Sparks Jeanne DuPrau (Audio)
My Brother is a Big Fat Liar by James Patterson – JRE
The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke
Diary of a Wimpy Kid A The Third Wheel – Jeff Kinney (Finished series) JRE
Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Suess 11-6-13 Super easy – randome on the shelf
Diary of a Wimpy Kid A Hard Luck – Jeff Kinney F 11-13 JRE
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street By Jenne Birdall JR 11-20 Narrated by Susan Denaker *****
The City of Ember Jeanne DuPrau (Audio) 12/20/13
The Silver Chair C.C. Lewis (Audio) 12/15/13
Oct 2013
Big Nate and Friends – by Lincoln Peirce
Big n.a.te freaks out by Lincoln Peirce
A Separate Peace – John Knowles (audio read by Snively, Scott.) ***** (good reader)
The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate
The Penderwicks – Jeanne Birdsall Narrated by Susan Denaker – *****
Summer of 2013
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket – The Bad Beginning -The Reptile Room -The Wide Window -The Miserable Mill -The Austere Academy -The Ersatz Elevator -The Vile Village -The Hostile Hospital -The Carnivorous Carnival -The Slippery Slope -The Grim Grotto -The Penultimate Peril -The End (audio) – http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
Call of the Wild – Jack London
Camp Babymouse (Graphic Novel) – Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm
Extreme Babymouse (Graphic Novel)- Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm
The Baby-Sitters Club – Ann Martin and Raina Telgemeier
Kristy’s Great Idea – Ann Martin and Raina Telgemeier
The Truth About Stacey – Ann Martin and Raina Telgemeier
Mary Anne Saves the Day – Ann Martin and Raina Telgemeier
Claudia and Mean Janine – Ann Martin and Raina Telgemeier
SMILE – Raina Telgemeier
DRAMA – Raina Telgemeier
Amelia Rules! – Jimmy Gownley
When the Past is Present – Jimmy Gownley
The Whole World is Crazy – Jimmy Gownley
Superheros – Jimmy Gownley
A Very Ninja Christmas – Jimmy Gownley
Xmen:Misfits (Book One) – DelRey Manga
Who is AC – Hope Larson
Nephews Magician – by C. S. Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia – The Last Battle Prince Caspian
Goosebumps -Be Careful What You Wish For –
Goosebumps The Haunted School
December 2015
Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Lemurs
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Elf (2X)
August 2015
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Shawshank Redemption
Gandhi- 5 stars
Ferris Buellers Day Off – 5 stars
How Did We Get To Here
Maze Runner
July 2015
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cast Away – 4 stars
Mouse Hunt – 3-1/3
Casablanca
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film – 4 stars
Tron
Hobbit
June 2015
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Song of the Sea
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Parenthood
Without a Clue
Megamind (saw earlier)
Temple Grandin
Mr. Bean Holiday
Inside Outside
The Thief Lord
May, 2015
Tomorrowland
Home (Nicole’s Party)
The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio. Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson 4 stars.
April 1, 2015
Battle for Terra (2007)
Hoot
Tuesdays with Morrie
13 going on 30
Super Buddies (D)
Johnny Lingo
March 2015
Cinderella and Frozen Fever – 2 stars
How to eat Fried Worms – Gross
Ice Princess
Jack and the Beanstalk (2010) – 4 stars
The Color of Friendship (Disney) – 4 stars
Yentle – 5 stars
The Book Thief – 4 stars
Kim Possible So The Drama – 3 stars
Kim Possible A Stitch in Time
Wiener Dog Nationals – 2 star
January February 2015
The Last Emperor
G Force
Race to Witch Mountain
Captain America
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides
Spongebob Squarepants – Sponge out of water 5 stars
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Little Man Tate
Megamind
Wish You Were Here (R) The dad in the family cursed a lot.
Rango
Big Miracle – Whales in Alaska – 5 stars
The Hobbit 2
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
October November December
A Christmas Story 5 stars and you’ll shoot your eye out!
Into the Woods
Big Hero 6
Old Yeller
Heaven is Real – Bad
Noah – 3 stars
Billy Elliot – 4
How to train your Dragon – 3
Jaws 3 – Bad
Zathura – 4
The Secret of Moonacre
Social Network – 4
Earth to Echo – 4
Sign of the Beaver – 3
September 2014
Dolphin Tale 2
A Wrinkle in Time
An American in Paris
Ballet Shoes
The Birds (Hitchcock)
Shaggy Dog
Phoebe in Wonderland
Carrie’s War
The Three Stooges
Aquamarine
August 2014
Mirror Mirror
Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters
Jumanji (Robin Williams)
Old Dogs (Robin Williams)
Anne Frank – (Ben Kingsley)
Grown Ups – Adam Sandler
The First Grader
Monsters in Paris – 2 stars
Aquamarine – 4.5 stars
Tangled – 5 stars
Cinderella Story – 3.5 stars
July 2014
Julia and Julie – 4 stars
The King and I – 5 stars
Charade – Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant – 3.5 stars
Mother – Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds – 4 stars
Click – 5 stars
Unaccompanied Minors – 4 stars
Protocol – 4 stars
Private Benjamin – 4 stars
The Last Mimzy – 5 stars
Martian Child – 3 stars
Big – Great
The Last Airbender – Thumbs down
Young Frankenstein – OK
The Devil’s Arithmetic – Unrated
The Princess Bride – 4.5 stars
June 2014
Stand and Deliver
The City of Ember
The Longest Day (Part)
Fiddler on the Roof
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
We’re the Millers
When Jews were Funny
Blended
Bend It Like Beckum
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
May 2014
Legally Blond
Legally Blond – Red, White and Blond
Good Will Hunting
Rebecca
November 2013
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Dr. Who November 23, 2013
Movies I saw Summer 2013
Secretariat –
Inkheart – (also the book)
Monsters University –
Arthur (PG13) – Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner (funny but inappropriate)
The Jerk (R) – Steve Martin (funny but inappropriate)
Bridesmaids – Kristen Wiig (funny but inappropriate)
Despicable Me 2
Dr. Who – TV Series Season 1, 2, 3, 4,
