Nook friendly finds

All listens this time but the next update might have an ebook or two!

1. Dim Sum of All Fears
by Vivien Chien

2. Inheriting Clutter

by Julie Hall

3. Changes

by Jim Butcher

4. Ghost Story

by Jim Butcher

5. Cold Days

by Jim Butcher

6. Dear Girls

by Ali Wong

7. My Life on the Road

by Gloria Steinem

8. Persist

by Elizabeth Warren

9. Murder Lo Mein

by Vivien Chien 

10. The Innocence of Father Brown

by G.K. Chesterton

95th Oscars

Predictions for tonight in Bold. I watched most of these on the tv or tablet. Maybe next year I'll see them on the big screen!

Best Picture

All Quiet on the Western Front 
Avatar: The Way of Water 
The Banshees of Inisherin 
Elvis 
Everything Everywhere All at Once 
The Fabelmans 
Tár 
Top Gun: Maverick 
Triangle of Sadness 
Women Talking 

Best Directing

The Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg
Tár — Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Östlund

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Austin Butler in Elvis
Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser in The Whale
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Bill Nighy in Living

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett in Tár
Ana de Armas in Blonde
Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie
Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway
Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau in The Whale
Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Costume Design

Babylon — Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Ruth Carter
Elvis — Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Shirley Kurata
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris — Jenny Beavan

Best Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water 

The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick 

Best Original Score

All Quiet on the Western Front — Volker Bertelmann
Babylon — Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin — Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Son Lux
The Fabelmans — John Williams

Best Adapted Screenplay

All Quiet on the Western Front — Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Written by Rian Johnson
Living — Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick — Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Women Talking — Screenplay by Sarah Polley

Best Original Screenplay

The Banshees of Inisherin — Written by Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans — Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
Tár — Written by Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness — Written by Ruben Östlund

Best Live-Action Short Film

An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase

Best Animated Short Film

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

Best Animated Film

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 
The Sea Beast 
Turning Red 

Best Original Song

“Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick; Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR; Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose
“This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once; Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne

Best International Feature Film

All Quiet on the Western Front — Germany
Argentina, 1985 — Argentina
Close — Belgium
EO — Poland
The Quiet Girl — Ireland

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman 
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 
Elvis 
The Whale 

Best Production Design

All Quiet on the Western Front 
Avatar: The Way of Water 
Babylon 
Elvis 
The Fabelmans 

Best Cinematography

All Quiet on the Western Front — James Friend
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — Darius Khondji
Elvis — Mandy Walker
Empire of Light — Roger Deakins
Tár — Florian Hoffmeister

Best Visual Effects

All Quiet on the Western Front 
Avatar: The Way of Water 
The Batman 
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 
Top Gun: Maverick 

Best Documentary Feature

All That Breathes 
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 
Fire of Love 
A House Made of Splinters 
Navalny 

Best Documentary Short Subject

The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year? 
The Martha Mitchell Effect 
Stranger at the Gate

Best Film Editing

The Banshees of Inisherin — Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis — Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Paul Rogers
Tár — Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick — Eddie Hamilton

Your Reading Heart

Somewhat out of order, I think. I was bad at record keeping!

1. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

By Micheal Zapata

2. Hard Choices

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

3. The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Chupacabras of the Rio Grande
By Adam Gidwitz

4. Postcards from the Edge

By Carrie Fisher

5. My Beloved World

By Sonia Sotomayor

6. The Joy of Movement

By Kelly McGonigal

7. Turn Coat

By Jim Butcher

8. Life After Suicide
By Jennifer Ashton, MD

9. Death by Dumpling

By Vivien Chien

10. The Data Detective

By Tim Harford

Twenty-two skidoo

Late in posting as usual. Book ten was finished in March! More to come this year... I hope!

1. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

by Michelle McNamara

2. Broken Horses

by Brandi Carlile

3. Becoming

By Michelle Obama 

4. White Magic

By Elissa Washuta

5. Thursday Night Murder Club

By Robert Osman

6. Giant

By Edna Ferber

7. Chasing Hillary

By Amy Chozick

8. What Happened

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

9. How Y’all Doing?

By Leslie Jordan

10. From Cradle to Stage

By Virginia Hanlon Grohl

Maybe Someday

Likely not a complete list but at least I posted something this year! 

1. Untamed

  Glennon Doyle

2. The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Sasquatch and the Muckleshoot

  Adam Gidwitz and Joseph Bruchac

3. The Power of Myth

  Joseph Campbell

4. On the Shoulders of Giants

  Kareen Abdul-Jabbar

5. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  Suzanne Collins

6. Small Favor

  Jim Butcher

7. The Martian

  Andy Weir

8. Scarred

 Sarah Edmondson

9. Never Caught

  Erica Armstrong Dunbar

10. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

by Sarah Vowell

A Good Read

1: Call Me Anna
  Patty Duke

2: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  Betty Smith

3: A Brilliant Madness
  Patty Duke

4. My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish
  Mo O'Hara

5. The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Creature of the Pines
  Adam Gidwitz and Jesse Casey

6. The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Basque Dragon
  Adam Gidwitz and Jesse Casey

7. Swamplandia

  Karen Russell

8. Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

  Stella Gibbons

9. Mrs. Bridge

  Evan Connell

10. The Gift of Forgiveness

  Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

Reading the Room

My last list of the year was a long time coming. Two(!) of these books I read on my Kindle as opposed to listening to the audiobook. I dropped my book club and listened to a lot more podcasts, which accounts for only reading 20 or so books this year. I'll try to do better in 2019.


1. Kiss Me Like a Stranger
  Gene Wilder

2. It's Always Something (abridged)
  Gilda Radner 

3. The Witch of Lime Street
  David Jaher

4.  Becoming Kareem
  Kareem Abdul-Jabar

5.  Leviathan Wakes
  James S. A. Corey

6: Salvage the Bones
  Jesmyn Ward

7: The Boy Kings of Texas
  Domingo Martinez

8: The Man in the High Castle
  Philip K. Dick

9.  We Fed an Island
  Jose Andres

10. The Black List (abridged)
  Timothy Greenfield-Sanders