Year in Review (2009)

What stats do I have on the year? These are just randomly put together from my notes... no sense in being organized about it 2 hours before new years...

NUMBERS

BOOKS/NOVELS READ (excludes poetry collections and, of course, short stories & essays unless I read the collection in its entirety): 44 (average of 221 pages per week)

MOVIES WATCHED (for first time (includes PBS documentaries)): 38

PLACES STAYED FOR MORE THAN A WEEK: 4 (NYC, NJ, Blacksburg, Charlottesville)

PAGES READ IN DICTIONARY: 618 (nearly letter F)

STORIES I WORKED ON THIS SEMESTER (includes only stories with working titles... no matter how long or short or failed): 20

GREATEST NUMBER OF DRAFTS FOR ONE STORY: 21 (and counting)


FAVORITES (only includes ones I read/saw for first time this year)

NOVEL: (1) Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov, (2) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

SHORT STORY: My First Fee by Issac Babel or For Esme -- With Love & Squalor by JD Salinger or Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

MUSICAL ARTIST / BAND: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Stripes

SONG: Skinny Love by Bon Iver

NEWISH MOVIE: Rachel Getting Married

OLDISH MOVIE: Rebel Without a Cause, Hamlet (1996), or A Streetcar Named Desire