2011: Movies, books and tv

[birdienl]

5 favourite movies:



Best movie I watched in 2011: Jane Eyre, because if a movie can make you go weak in the knees even if you've
seen, read and heard the story so many times, it must be a good movie.

Movies I watched (and rewatched) in 2011: Easy A / Romancing the stone / Life as we know it / The white countess / The other end of the line / Adam / Love and other drugs / Nights in Rhodante / Morning Glory / The rag nymph / The round tower / The girl / The secret / Ondine / Must like dogs / Secretariat / Swimming upstream / Slumdog Millionaire / Crossing over / Stardust (rewatch) / Shadows in the sun / The gathering storm / Just breathe / Flash of genius / From time to time / I am number four / How to tame your dragon / Return of the native / The blind side / My life in ruins / From Prada to nada / Dresden / August rush / Date night / Up in the air / South Solitary / Happythankyoumoreplease / Brick Lane / The children of Huang Shi / Pretty woman (rewatch) / Cider with Rosie / Firelight / An education / Larry Crowne / Just Wright / My girlfriend's boyfriend / Hitch (rewatch) / Sweet Land / Monster-in-law / Love 'nd dancing / Mother and Child / The good guy / My name is Khan / Immigration Tango / Greenberg / 500 days of Summer / Me and Orson Welles / Something borrowed / What's your number / Jane Eyre / Another year / The hangman of Cater Street / Beastly / The women / Going the distance / Into the storm / The back-up plan / The wingless bird / The answer man /     An old-fashioned Thanksgiving / An old-fashioned Christmas / Silver Bells / New Year's Eve

Links are to reviews or posts I wrote about these movies



10 favourite books:

Best book I've read this year: Cyndere's Midnight by Jeffrey Overstreet, the prose was so stunning and the story so interesting,
this is truly a wonderful fantasy novel!

Books I've read (and reread) in 2011: Benjamin Mee - We bought a zoo / J.R.R. Tolkien - The fellowship of the ring (reread) / Kristen Heitzmann - The Rose legacy, Sweet boundless, The tender vine / Kate Kerrigan - Recipes for a perfect marriage / Wanda Brunstetter - Looking for a miracle / Regnerus Steensma - Friese kerken (Dutch) / Jan Siebelink - Knielen op een bed violen (Dutch) / Michael Philips - The eleventh hour / Peter Vermaas - In God we trust (Dutch) / Albert Buursma - Kerken in NO-Friesland uit de Romaanse en Gotische tijd (Dutch) / Tamera Alexander - Rekindled, Revealed / Jeffrey Overstreet - Cyndere's Midnight / Karen Kingsbury - Divine / Maureen Lang - Look to the East, Whisper to the wind / Louisa May Alcott - Little Men & Jo's Boys / Beverly Lewis - The secret, The missing / Penelope Williamson - The outsider, The passions of Emma / Yann Martel - Life of Pi / Kim Vogel Sawyer - My heart remembers, A promise for spring / L.H. Oosten & Poggius - Johannes Hus veroordeeld (Dutch) / Charles Dickens - David Copperfield / George Eliot - Daniel Deronda / Tricia Goyer - The Swiss courier / Charlotte Brönte - Jane Eyre / Lynn Austin - While we're far apart / Luanne Rice - Silver Bells / Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth

Links are to reviews or posts I wrote about these books



15 tv-shows:

Best tv-series I've seen in 2011: Dowton Abbey for the fandom, becaus it's great to be able to anticipate and discuss a show with so many other people. The Good Wife for the show itself, because it has great characters and very interesting storylines.

TV-series I've watched (and rewatched) in 2011: North and South (rewatch) / The Sinking of the Laconia / Edwardian Farm / Land Girls series 2 & 3 / Lark Rise to Candleford series 4 / The Good Wife season 1 & 2 / South Riding / Sherlock (BBC) / Victorian Pharmacy / Lewis series 5 / Grey's Anatomy season 7 / Garrow's Law series 3 / Lorna Doone / Silas Marner / The Moonstone / Snowy River: The McGregor Saga season 1 / David Copperfield (2000) / Downton Abbey series 1 (rewatch) & 2 / Doctor Who series 6 / Adam Bede / Paul Rösemuller en het land van Obama (Dutch) / De Slavernij (Dutch) /
Great Expectations (2011)

Links are to reviews or posts I wrote about these tv-series

Comments

[florencia7.livejournal.com]

Fantastic post! ♥ Thank you so much for sharing this :] I'm really amazed at the amount of movies & shows that you managed to watch. I think I did alright with the books but I've been watching only 1 TV show & I think I watched maybe... 10 movies? At most. I need to do better next year ^^

Happy New Year! :D

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

I was quite amazed myself as well when I was typing them up, I think there were far more (at least movies) compared to last year! Well, I had a very non-demanding job until November, so that's probably what caused it. Less time to watch movies with my current job...

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Andrew Buchan is wonderful! He's fast becoming one of my favourite Brit actors!

[crazymaryt.livejournal.com]

I love Downton and Lewis and discovered Lark Rise this year. It was a good year for TV I have to say.

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

It definitely was!

[richyl88.livejournal.com]

I really loved the blind side.It was such a heart warming movie.

[caffeinatedlife.livejournal.com]

Great list! The period drama shows you listed there looks especially interesting; it's been a while since I've watched a period drama of any sort *blushes*

Cyndere's Midnight by Jeffrey Overstreet sounds interesting, I just might check it out one of these days =)

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, you've not watched a period drama for some time? Aren't you feeling faint or something with the lack of it ;-)

[spally.livejournal.com]

A great list and a great year!

[moonreviews]

Echt veel series (o.o)! Wel leuk :D

En jouw boeken hebben mooie kaften (^-^)

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Ja, ik was zelf ook verbaasd hoeveel, maar het merendeel is Brits en dat betekent meestal veel minder afleveringen per seizoen dan een gemiddelde Amerikaanse serie: Garrow's Law 4 afleveringen, Lewis 4 afleveringen, Downton Abbey 8 etc, dan kun je meer series in een jaar 'proppen'!

[kolibrichen.livejournal.com]

DA and Sherlock are my fav. here ;) and I've read Jane Eyre in 2011 for the first time :D

[kolibrichen.livejournal.com]

forgot How to train your dragon and: a healthy, successful and happy 2012 :D