april 2014

captain charles moore - plastic ocean: how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans
colin thurbron - the lost heart of asia 

airplane (1980), naked gun (1988), john wick (screener), expendables (2010), rocky (1976)

march 2014

kenneth davis - don't know much about history [1/20-march]
donovan hohn - moby duck: the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea & of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists & fools including the author who went in search of them [march started and ended]
gretchen rubin - the happiness project [24-30]

frankenweenie, jiro dreams of sushi [18], her [21], rush [22], the perks of being a wallflower [28]

february 2014

am updating this towards the end of march so i'm sure i've missed lots... watched a ton of olympics coverage tho, so i know i wasn't reading much.

kenneth davis - don't know much about history: everything you wanted to know about american history but never learned [20-]
r.a. dyer - hustler days [didn't finish]

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]