What We Put In

In the last few weeks, I've had random conversations with friends about favorite books and movies. I laugh when I think about the different stages of books, cartoons, video games, and movies I've been through. I thought I'd share since some of my friends were surprised by my favorite movies.

SOME FAVORITE MOVIES:

1. Jurassic Park
2. Return to Me
3. Disney's Robin Hood
4. Dave
5. The Core
6. The Care Bear Movie
7. The Pelican Brief
8. While You Were Sleeping
9. Deja Vu
10. Life is Beautiful
11. Stardust
12. Toy Story
13. Shang Hai Noon
    
    

MOVIES THAT WERE FAVORITES ONCE:

1. The Chipmunk Adventure
2. The Shaggy D.A.
3. Disney's Little Mermaid
4. Turner and Hooch
5. Princes Bride
6. Cop and a Half
7. Anything Alfred Hitchcock (except The Birds)
8. Hotshots
9. Three Men and a Baby
10. The Client
11. The Gods Must be Crazy
12. Mission Impossible
13. Rush Hour
14. Weekend at Burnie's
15. Dante's Peak

TV SHOWS I'VE LIKED:

Past:

1. The Polka-Dot Door
2. Lambchop's Play-along (this is the song that doesn't end")
3. Rainbow Brite
4. Gummy Bears
5. Inspector Gadget
6. Dennis the Menace
7. MATLOCK
8. Full House
9. Who's the Boss
10. Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
11. Mad About You
12. Home Improvement
13. E.R.
14. Walker, Texas Ranger
15. Everwood
16. Gilmore Girls
17. Sue Thomas: FBEye
18. Angel
19. 24
20. Lost

Present:

1. NCIS
2. Numb3rs
3. The Closer
4. The Ghost Whisperer
5. True confessions: (I'd still watch Matlock & Full House...if Jacob napped long enough!)

MOVIES/TV SHOWS I REALLY DON'T LIKE:

1. Bells of Innocence (this one's for you, Lynn)
2. I Am Legend (there's a reason this is near the top of this list)
3. Groundhog Day
4. Dumb and Dumber
5. The Simpsons
6. The Birds
7. Iron Man
8. Look Who's Talking
9. The Bachelor
10. anything with Ernest in the title

SOME FAVORITE BOOKS:

1. The Berenstain Bears
2. The Life of Pi
3. A Girl Named Zippy
4. The Hiding Place
5. Peace Like a River
6. The Glass Castle
7. The Book Thief
8. Elantris
9. The Scarlet Pimpernel
10. Persepolis I
11. Les Miserables
12. The Secret Life of Bees
13. To Kill a Mockingbird
    

BOOKS I USED TO LOVE: (and will always hold a special place in my heart ;)

1. The Dollhouse Murders
2. Sideways Stories from Wayside School
3. The Great Brain books
4. Alliance
5. Ender's Game/Shadow series
6. The Work and the Glory
7. Mrs. Pollifax mysteries
8. The Mitford Series
9. anything by Sharon Shinn
10. Mary Higgins Clark mysteries
11. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
    

BOOKS I DIDN'T LIKE (or couldn't finish):

1. Inda by Sherwood Smith
2. The King of Torts by John Grisham
3. Loves Music, Loves to Dance - by Mary Higgins Clark
4. East of Eden
5. Alias Grace
6. The Shape-Changer's Wife
7. Songmaster by Orson Scott Card
8. The Memory of Earth
9. Babywise 2
10. The Pearl
11. Bel Canto
12. Reading Lolita in Tehran
13. Saints by Orson Scott Card
14. The Professor's House
15. Sabriel
16. The Cat Who...mysteries
17. The Kite Runner
18. Persepolis II
    

FIRST CASETTE TAPES/CD'S I OWNED:

1. Mariah Carey - Music Box
2. Garth Brooks Greatest Hits
3. Air Supply
4. Chicago Greatest Hits
5. REO Speedwagon
6. 80s Greatest Hits
7. Batman Forever Soundtrack
8. The Housemartins
9. The Book of Mormon Soundtrack
10. The Coors
11. Brian Adams
12. Chris Isaac