First Quarter in Movies

I started loosing track of all the movies I was watching last year but decided it would be fun to try and pay better attention and see what number I end up with year after year.

Here’s the breakdown for my year so far.

January

1. Shortbus
2. Persuasion (1995)
3. Avatar
4. March of the Penguins
5. Hideous Kinky
6. Sherlock Holmes
7. Leap Year
8. Nine
9. The Blind Side
10. Julie and Julia
11. The Final Destination
12. Gamer
13. Big Lebowski
14. This is It
15. Twister

February

1. Music & Lyrics
2. Twister (again)
3. Zombieland
4. Hangover
5. Little Ashes
6. Valentine’s Day
7. Love Happens
8. X-Files: Season 4
9. Management
10. Shutter Island
11. Everybody’s Fine
12. Sex Drive
13. Temple Grandin

March

1. District 9
2. An Education
3. Up in the Air
4. Inglorious Basterds
5. Alice in Wonderland
6. The Hurt Locker
7. Precious
8. A Serious Man
9. X-Files: Season 5
10. Private Lives of Pippa Lee
11. Art & Copy
12. 2012
13. Ally McBeal: Season 1
14. The Blind Side

That’s a total of 42 movies for the first quarter of 2010.

2009 in Review – Part 2 – The Stats

2009 In Review: THE STATS

Total Books Read: 140
Total Authors: 81
New Authors: 60

• Female – 32
• Male – 49

Best Reading Month: March – 18
Worse Reading Month: November – 5

Reading Challenges Participated in – 58
Carrying Over- 13
Perpetual Challenges – 5

Longest Book – Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Shortest Book – Free Stallion by Amber Tamblyn
Best New Series – Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris
Favorite New Author – Charlaine Harris
Favorite Old Author – Jams Patterson
Favorite Series – Stephanie Plum & Sookie Stackhouse (tie)

GENRE BREAKDOWN:

• Fiction – 56
• Children – 22
• Non-fiction – 22
• Graphic Novels – 16
• Young Adult – 12
• Classics – 11
• Plays – 6
• Short Stories – 3
• Poetry – 2

Most Read Authors:

• James Patterson – 19
• Dr. Seuss – 11
• Charlaine Harris – 10
• Frank Miller – 10
• C.S. Lewis – 7
• William Shakespeare – 6
• L. Frank Baum  – 6
• Holly Black – 5
• Louise Rennison – 5
• Janet Evanovich – 4
• Jane Austen – 3