Winnie's Bookshelf/Pile of Stuff

Recent and favorite reads:

• A Private History of Awe (Scott Russell Sanders) – I highly recommend this to anyone with a soul who has faced spiritual conflict. And to Americans who have a love/hate relationship with their country!
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid)
• Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih)
• Keynotes and Discords (George Egerton)
• Columbine (Dave Cullen)
• Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) – I think we all have this in common!
• Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine) – I read this at least 15 times growing up. Oh Char!
• The Sword of Truth series (Terry Goodkind) – I’m still working on this one.
• The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
• Angels in America (Tony Kushner) – I have his autograph too!
• Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
• Watership Down (Richard Adams)
• The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
• everything about the world of Harry Potter
• The Fall (Albert Camus)
• Hamlet (Shakespeare)
• Weetzie Bat and The Hanged Man (Francesca Lia Block)
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
• 1984 (George Orwell) – and many of his essays, such as “Politics and the English Language”

Favorite music:

• Regina Spektor – especially: Far, Begin to Hope, Soviet Kitsch
• Nickel Creek – esp. Nickel Creek, Why Should the Fire Die?
• Sara Bareilles – Careful Confessions
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers
• Coldplay
• Rilo Kiley – Under the Blacklight
• Ben Kweller
• Ben Folds (Five)
• Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Bach
• Radiohead

Favorite TV:

• Mythbusters
• Star Trek (old and new!)
• The Discovery Channel in general – Bear Grylls, the Planet Earth and Life series, the new show “Stephen Hawking’s Universe”
• The History Channel – I like them all, but especially the shows about the history of sex.
• House

Favorite movies:

• The Lord of the Rings movies
• Batman: The Dark Night
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Pocahontas
• most Disney movies of the 20th century
• The Fountain
• The Prestige
• The Hours