janauary 2014

john long - the big drop: classic big wave surfing stories [1-18]
kenneth davis - don't know much about history: everything you wanted to know about american history but never learned [20-]

blackfish (2013) [6], the purge (2013) [9]

2013 notable books

my favorites from my readings in 2013:
andrew chaikin - a man on the moon: the voyages of the apollo astronauts (september)

favorite movies:
gravity, anna karenina

december 2013

kelly alexander and cynthia harris - hometown appetites: the story of celemntine paddleford, the forgotten food write who chronicled how america eat [5-17]
judith millidge - history bites: the past's strangest moments in bite-sized portions [11/23-31]

world war z, the hobbit 2, elysium, back to the future part 2 (1989) [31]

november 2013

evan thomas - the very best men: four who dared: the early years of the CIA [1-22]
judith millidge - history bites: the past's strangest moments in bite-sized portions [23-]

step up revolution [], thor [9], hunger games 2 [22], finished breaking bad!

october 2013

andrew chaikin - a man on the moon: the voyages of the apollo astronauts [9/1-4]
frank dikotter - mao's great famine: the history of china's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-1962 [2-26]
david grann - the lost city of z: a tale of deadly obsession in the amazon [26-]

gravity [6]

september 2013

andrew chaikin - a man on the moon: the voyages of the apollo astronauts [1-]
malcolm gladwell - outliers: the story of success [3-13]
julian baggini - the pig that wants to be eaten: 100 experiments for the armchair philosopher [13-30]

notes on a scandal (2006) [6], breaking bad season 1, pitch perfect (2012) [27], breaking bad season 2,