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• The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling: Sept 27
• The Price of Politics - Bob Woodward: Sept 11 (Obama financial struggles)
• Who could that be at this hour? - Lemony Snicket: Oct 23
• Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follet: Sept. 18 (Interesting looking historical fiction; start with Book One)
• This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz: Sept. 11 (start with Oscar Wao)
• Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon: Sept. 11
• mortality by christopher hitchens
• Both flesh and not - david foster wallace

• The Casual Vacancy
• Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Cloud Atlas
• The Hobbit

• The Prince's Tale - Lauren Fairweather +
• Daisy's Lullaby - Will Thwaites
• That Girl Can't Dance - Eddplant & Lex
• Double Rainbow premiere by the Gregory Brothers at Vidcon 2010 +
• Lauren raps +

• Stand By Me - Ben E. King
• Smile - Charlie Chaplin, Nat King Cole
• You Are My Sunshine
• Sea of Love (cover by Cat Power)
• Us - Regina Spektor
• Across the Universe (cover by Fiona Apple)
• I Can't Help Falling in Love with You (cover by Ingrid Michaelson)

• Queer Theory: An Introduction
• The City of Dreaming Books - Walter Moers
• The Casual Vacancy - J. K. Rowling

• "The Good Guys will win. The consciousness now being forged will hang, tempered and true, in the utility closet alongside old and faithful tools like Mercy and Equality and Will Rogers."- Ken Kesey
• ‎"On the night of November 14th, two men broke into a quiet farmhouse in Kansas and murdered an entire family. Why did they do that? Two worlds exist in this country: the quiet conservative life and the life of those two men: the underbelly, the criminally violent. Those two worlds converged that bloody night." - Capote (film)
• "The book I'm writing will restore him to the realm of humanity. This is the book I was always meant to write." - Capote (film)
• ‎"Every busy city needs an island of peace." - "City Island" (film)
• "Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-sala...

• cafe lumiere
• wuthering heights (1992 with juliette binoche)
• The Matrix
• The Godfather & sequels (without falling asleep)
• Starwars (never finished the series)
• Anchorman
• main Hitchcock films
• Anchorman (apparently about the women's movement?)
• The Big Lebowski
• My Cousin Vinny
• Indiana Jones (I've seen them but apparently they're the quintessential action movies)
• Silence of the Lambs (gets mentioned 3 times a class)
• the hours

• ✔ adventures during freshman year
• ✔ reasons NJ is cool and full of hidden gems
• ✔ references I often want to make even though I know no one will understand them
• favorite moments in live music which I wish I was there for
• concerts I've been to
• ✔ books I would like to read; authors
• ✔ films I would like to see; directors
• jobs I would like to have
• top ten reasons I love the Suite Life of Zack and Cody movie

• ✔ Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
• ✔ a bunch of poetry by e e cummings
• ✔ franny and zooey - salinger
• ✔ Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee
• ✔ cannery row - steinbeck
• ✔ TFiOS - john green
• ✔ harry, a history - melissa anelli
• ✔ beauty junkies - alex kuczynski
• ✔ catching fire - suzanne collins
• ✔ lettres de mistriss henley
• ✔ The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
• ✔ franny and zooey (again)
• ✔ the perks of being a wallflower
• ✔ portrait of a lady - Henry James
• ✔ santuary - William Faulkner
• brief interviews with hideous men (unfinished)
• women: an intimate geography (unfinished)
• the casual vacancy (unfinished)

• ✔ may, 2011
• ✔ this year...
• ✔ camp stories
• ✔ family bonding week + Hurricane Irene + Sept 2011
• Oct 2011
• Nov 2011
• Dec 2011
• ✔ Cannery row & franny and zooey
• journal square
• med discussion 4
• med disc 5

• the pale king
• the fall of giants (the century trilogy book 1) by ken follet
• the snowman - jo nesbo (scandinavian thriller)
• zadie smith
• christopher hitchens
• brief wondrous life of oscar wao - junot diaz
• paper towns - john green
• looking for alaska - john green (reread)
• affluenza - John de Graaf
• never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro
• shel silverstein
• manhattan transfer - John Dos Passos
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent - washington irving
• the heart of understanding - Thich Nhat Hanh
• dangerous laughter by steven millhauser
• perks of being a wallflower - stephen chb...

• "My childhood dream-that I would move to New York and have a creative life filled with many interesting friends who had terrible, terrible problems-came true." -David Rakoff (via Isabel)
• “For if you have embraced a creed that appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves you are in the right? And the more you are in the right, the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.” -George Orwell, Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
• “Applied to foreign politics, pacifism either stops being pacifist or becomes appeasement… Who is sane? Was Hitler sane? And is it not possible for one whole culture to be insane by the standards of another?... These and kindred questions nee...

• digimon (rewatch): episode 20
• community: beginning of season 2
• 30 rock: somewhere mid season 5
• doctor who
• vlogbrothers
• breaking bad
• buffy
• battle star galactica
• evangelion
• welcome to the nhk