Blogkeeping -- Spring 2012

(!!!  Apparently blogger has updated me to the new template for writing blogposts.  This will take some getting used to it.)

I seriously feel like I just barely did this, but apparently it's been a few months, and the list there on the right is definitely due for a little spring cleaning.  In truth, it was almost ready to go after my last blogkeeping post.  This list goes from late November, just before Thanksgiving (bottom) to 27 Feburary (top).  We apparently watched a lot of movies during the winter months.

Planet 51 ** 1/2 / / Dumb and Dumber [r] *** 1/2 / Regency House Party *** 1/2 / The Help *** 1/2 / Moneyball *** 1/2 / The Tree of Life *** / Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey **** / Robots *** / Julie and Julia [r] **** / Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken [r] *** 1/2 / Swing Kids [r] **** / Man On a Ledge *** 1/2 / The Island [r] *** 1/2 / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [r] *** 1/2 / Valiant ** 1/2 / Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs *** / Anonymous *** / The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 * / The Kid [r] **** 1/2 / The Woman in Black **** / Willow [r] *** 1/2 / Matilda [r] *** / The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story *** 1/2 / Waking Sleeping Beauty **** / Heart and Souls [r] **** 1/2 / Pride & Prejudice (2003) [r] **** / Wit [r] **** 1/2 / High School Musical 3: Senior Year *** / Camelot [r] **** 1/2 / Dreamer *** 1/2 / The Man In the Moon [r] *** / Great Expectations (BBC 1999) **** / Daria (Season 3) [r] **** 1/2 / The Incredible Mr. Limpet [r] ** 1/2 / What's Up, Doc? [r] **** / Rebecca (1997) *** / You Again *** / Some Like It Hot [r] *** 1/2 / Green Lantern ** / The Spitfire Grill [r] **** / Rebecca (1940) [r] **** / All About Steve ** / The Rocketeer [r] **** / America's Sweethearts [r] *** / Alex & Emma [r] ** 1/2 / Red Eye [r] **** / Girl With a Pearl Earring [r] *** / Midnight In Paris *** 1/2 / Prom *** / Beauty and the Beast (3D) **** 1/2 / The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn *** 1/2 / Bring It On [r] *** 1/2 / The Pixar Story *** 1/2 / Exit Through the Gift Shop ** 1/2 / Gnomeo and Juliet *** / Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles *** / Newsies [r] **** / Daria (Season 2) [r] ***** / The Man In the Iron Mask *** 1/2 / Battle: Los Angeles *** 1/2 / Something Borrowed ** / Uncorked [r] **** / Jersey Girl ** 1/2 / Bertie and Elizabeth *** / Sherlock Holmes [r] *** / The Hudsucker Proxy [r] ***** / My Boy Jack [r] *** / The Spanish Prisoner [r] *** 1/2 / The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters *** 1/2 / Water For Elephants ** 1/2 / I Don't Know How She Does It ** 1/2 / Warrior ** 1/2 / Tangled [r] ***** / Crazy, Stupid, Love. ** 1/2 / The Princess and the Frog [r] ***** / I Am Legend [r] *** / The Story of Us [r] **** 1/2 / Leap Year [r] *** 1/2 / There Will Be Blood *** / Obsessed [r] **** / No Country For Old Men *** 1/2 / Star Wars: The Clone Wars ** 1/2 / A Christmas Story [r] *** / Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol *** 1/2 / LOST (Season 6) [r] *****! / The Nativity Story [r] *** 1/2 / Edward Scissorhands [r] ***** / Survivor: South Pacific **** / Love Actually [r] ***** / Undercover Blues [r] **** 1/2 / While You Were Sleeping [r] **** 1/2 / America's Next Top Model: All-Stars (Cycle 17) *** / Gargoyles (Season 2) [r] **** / Away We Go *** 1/2 / The X-Files: I Want To Believe *** / The Muppets ***** / Muppets From Space [r] *** / Muppet Treasure Island [r] **** 1/2 / LOST (Season 5) [r] **** 1/2 / Waitress *** 1/2

The highlight was  The Muppets and the last season of LOST.  The lowest of lows was Breaking Dawn Part 1.  Both of those were probably to be expected.

Apparently I'm also due to clean out my reading list, so here's that (this runs from early July 2011 to mid-March 2012):

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick) **** / Chocolat (Joanne Harris) *** / Under the Greenwood Tree (Thomas Hardy) [r] **** / Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever (Jeff Kinney) *** / The Woman in Black (Susan Hill) **** / Pickles to Pittsburgh (Judi Barrett) ** 1/2 / Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Judi Barrett) *** / Desparate Remedies (Thomas Hardy) **** / The Lottery (Shirley Jackson) **** / Matilda (Roald Dahl) [r] **** / Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card) *** 1/2 / Xenocide (Orson Scott Card) *** / Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card) *** / Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) [r] **** / Tarzan Chronicles (Howard E. Green) ***** / The Dragons of Blueland (Ruth Stiles Gannett) **** / Elmer and the Dragon (Ruth Stiles Gannett) **** / My Father's Dragon (Ruth Stiles Gannett) [r] ***** / The Fledgling (Jane Langton) [r] *** / Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman) **** 1/2 / The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) **** / Tarzan - Special Collector's Edition (Russell Schroeder) **** / Loves Music, Loves To Dance (Mary Higgins Clark) *** 1/2 / The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster) *** / Mulan - Special Collector's Edition (Russell Schroeder) **** / Peace Like a River (Leif Enger) [r] ***** / The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (Roald Dahl) **** / Mary Poppins In the Park (P.L. Travers) *** / Mary Poppins Opens the Door (P.L. Travers) ** / The Art of Hercules: The Chaos of Creation (Stephen Rebello and Jane Healey) **** / Mary Poppins Comes Back (P.L. Travers) ** 1/2 / Mary Poppins (P.L. Travers) *** / The Beatrice Letters (Lemony Snicket) [r] *** / Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (Lemony Snicket) [r] **** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End (Lemony Snicket) [r] **** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril (Lemony Snicket) [r] **** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto (Lemony Snicket) [r] *** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope (Lemony Snicket) [r] **** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival (Lemony Snicket) [r] **** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital (Lemony Snicket) [r] *** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village (Lemony Snicket) [r] **** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator (Lemony Snicket) [r] **** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy (Lemony Snicket) [r] ***** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill (Lemony Snicket) [r] *** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window (Lemony Snicket) [r] ***** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room (Lemony Snicket) [r] **** / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (Lemony Snicket) [r] **** / The Art of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Stephen Rebello) **** / Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling) [r] **** / Pinky Pye (Eleanor Estes) ****

So there you have it.  I'm glad all of the Series of Unfortunate Books ended up in the same blogkeeping post, rather than having to break them up forevermore.  Now that list on the right is so much shorter!  It's like the cleanness of a nice spring morning.   Enjoy, archives!