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Reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Listening to: Parker Millsap by Parker Millsap
Watching: Philomena by Stephen Frears
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Music
Ryan Adams, Adele, Tori Amos, Antony & the Johnsons, The Avett Brothers, Chet Baker, Josephine Baker, Shirley Bassey, The Beatles, Matraca Berg, Beyoncé, The Boswell Sisters, Maria Callas, Brandi Carlile, The Carter Family, Carlene Carter, Neko Case, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Marshall Chapman, Cory Chisel, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke, Justin Townes Earle, Steve Earle, Cass Elliot, Marianne Faithfull, Ella Fitzgerald, Patty Griffin, Ben Harper, Emmylou Harris, Caroline Herring, Billie Holiday, Whitney Houston, Mahalia Jackson, The Judds, Lady Gaga, k.d. lang, John Lennon, Julie London, The Louvin Brothers, Patty Loveless, Loretta Lynn, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Kate & Anne McGarrigle, Joni Mitchell, Daniel Martin Moore, Allison Moorer, Mumford & Sons, Jessye Norman, Sinead O’Connor, Oasis, Yoko Ono, Joan Osborne, Edith Piaf, Linda Ronstadt, Raphael Saadiq, Scissor Sisters, Nina Simone, Nancy Sinatra, Ben Sollee, Regina Spektor, Dusty Springfield, Sufjan Stevens, Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, The Watson Twins, Jack White, Lucinda Williams, Patrick Wolf, Wynonna
Music
Ryan Adams, Adele, Tori Amos, Antony & the Johnsons, The Avett Brothers, Chet Baker, Josephine Baker, Shirley Bassey, The Beatles, Matraca Berg, Beyoncé, The Boswell Sisters, Maria Callas, Brandi Carlile, The Carter Family, Carlene Carter, Neko Case, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Marshall Chapman, Cory Chisel, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke, Justin Townes Earle, Steve Earle, Cass Elliot, Marianne Faithfull, Ella Fitzgerald, Patty Griffin, Ben Harper, Emmylou Harris, Caroline Herring, Billie Holiday, Whitney Houston, Mahalia Jackson, The Judds, Lady Gaga, k.d. lang, John Lennon, Julie London, The Louvin Brothers, Patty Loveless, Loretta Lynn, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Kate & Anne McGarrigle, Joni Mitchell, Daniel Martin Moore, Allison Moorer, Mumford & Sons, Jessye Norman, Sinead O’Connor, Oasis, Yoko Ono, Joan Osborne, Edith Piaf, Linda Ronstadt, Raphael Saadiq, Scissor Sisters, Nina Simone, Nancy Sinatra, Ben Sollee, Regina Spektor, Dusty Springfield, Sufjan Stevens, Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, The Watson Twins, Jack White, Lucinda Williams, Patrick Wolf, Wynonna
Books
84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff), About a Boy (Nick Hornby), Angels in America (Tony Kushner), Anne of the Thousand Days (Maxwell Anderson), The Book of Common Prayer, The Color Purple (Alice Walker), The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), The Dollmaker (Harriette Arnow), Dreamwork (Mary Oliver), Fair and Tender Ladies (Lee Smith), Firebird (Mark Doty), The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck), A Home at the End of the World (Michael Cunningham), In the Wilderness (Kim Barnes), Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy), Just Kids (Patti Smith), The Lady in the Tower (Alison Weir), Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman), The Least Cricket of Evening (Robert Vivian), The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (Eric Ives), Master Class (Terrence McNally), Maurice (E.M. Forster), The Mercy (Philip Levine), Mother of Sorrows (Richard McCann), My Antonia (Willa Cather), Notes of a Native Son (James Baldwin), A Parchment of Leaves (Silas House), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen), Robert Kennedy: His Life (Evan Thomas), A Room with a View (E.M. Forster), Salvation on Sand Mountain (Dennis Covington), Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen), The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes), Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion), Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven (Karen Salyer McElmurray), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Traveling Mercies (Anne Lamott), Two or Three Things I Know For Sure (Dorothy Allison), The Unquiet Earth (Denise Giardina), Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? (Mark Zwonitzer), Wings (Mikhail Kuzmin), Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel), Woman in Front of the Sun (Judith Ortiz Cofer), You Have Given Me A Country (Neela Vaswani)
84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff), About a Boy (Nick Hornby), Angels in America (Tony Kushner), Anne of the Thousand Days (Maxwell Anderson), The Book of Common Prayer, The Color Purple (Alice Walker), The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), The Dollmaker (Harriette Arnow), Dreamwork (Mary Oliver), Fair and Tender Ladies (Lee Smith), Firebird (Mark Doty), The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck), A Home at the End of the World (Michael Cunningham), In the Wilderness (Kim Barnes), Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy), Just Kids (Patti Smith), The Lady in the Tower (Alison Weir), Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman), The Least Cricket of Evening (Robert Vivian), The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (Eric Ives), Master Class (Terrence McNally), Maurice (E.M. Forster), The Mercy (Philip Levine), Mother of Sorrows (Richard McCann), My Antonia (Willa Cather), Notes of a Native Son (James Baldwin), A Parchment of Leaves (Silas House), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen), Robert Kennedy: His Life (Evan Thomas), A Room with a View (E.M. Forster), Salvation on Sand Mountain (Dennis Covington), Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen), The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes), Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion), Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven (Karen Salyer McElmurray), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Traveling Mercies (Anne Lamott), Two or Three Things I Know For Sure (Dorothy Allison), The Unquiet Earth (Denise Giardina), Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? (Mark Zwonitzer), Wings (Mikhail Kuzmin), Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel), Woman in Front of the Sun (Judith Ortiz Cofer), You Have Given Me A Country (Neela Vaswani)
Movies
84 Charing Cross Road, About a Boy, All About My Mother, Amarcord, Angels in America, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Apostle, Beautiful Thing, Black Swan, Breakfast on Pluto, Brief Encounter, City of God, Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Color of Paradise, The Color Purple, Come Early Morning, De-Lovely, Doctor Zhivago, The Dollmaker, East of Eden, East/West, An Education, Elizabeth, Elmer Gantry, Far From Heaven, Frida, Funny Girl; Goodbye, Lenin!; Grey Gardens (1976), Harlan County USA, Harold & Maude, I Confess!, In the Bedroom, Into the Wild, Jude, Julia, La Dolce Vita, The Last Station; Love, Actually; Maria Full of Grace, Matewan, Maurice, Milk, The Motorcycle Diaries, My Beautiful Laundrette, Never Let Me Go, The Ox-Bow Incident, A Place in the Sun, The Queen, The Reader, Rebecca, The Red Shoes, The Remains of the Day, Roman Holiday, A Room with a View, Ruby in Paradise, Saved!, Sense & Sensibility (1995), The Shop on Main Street, Strangers on a Train; Suddenly, Last Summer; Sunset Boulevard, Talk to Her; They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?; The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978), To Kill a Mockingbird, The Trip to Bountiful, V for Vendetta, A Very Long Engagement, Volver, Waterloo Bridge, Weekend, The White Ribbon, Wild River, Wilde, Y Tu Mama Tambien
84 Charing Cross Road, About a Boy, All About My Mother, Amarcord, Angels in America, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Apostle, Beautiful Thing, Black Swan, Breakfast on Pluto, Brief Encounter, City of God, Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Color of Paradise, The Color Purple, Come Early Morning, De-Lovely, Doctor Zhivago, The Dollmaker, East of Eden, East/West, An Education, Elizabeth, Elmer Gantry, Far From Heaven, Frida, Funny Girl; Goodbye, Lenin!; Grey Gardens (1976), Harlan County USA, Harold & Maude, I Confess!, In the Bedroom, Into the Wild, Jude, Julia, La Dolce Vita, The Last Station; Love, Actually; Maria Full of Grace, Matewan, Maurice, Milk, The Motorcycle Diaries, My Beautiful Laundrette, Never Let Me Go, The Ox-Bow Incident, A Place in the Sun, The Queen, The Reader, Rebecca, The Red Shoes, The Remains of the Day, Roman Holiday, A Room with a View, Ruby in Paradise, Saved!, Sense & Sensibility (1995), The Shop on Main Street, Strangers on a Train; Suddenly, Last Summer; Sunset Boulevard, Talk to Her; They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?; The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978), To Kill a Mockingbird, The Trip to Bountiful, V for Vendetta, A Very Long Engagement, Volver, Waterloo Bridge, Weekend, The White Ribbon, Wild River, Wilde, Y Tu Mama Tambien