Thursday, August 09, 2007

Movie/Show Recommendations?

My Netflix queue is getting perilously small. While I usually have a list of almost 100 movies that I'm looking forward to watch, I have now gotten down to less than 50 movies in the queue, and every time I look through the list I have a hard time finding anything on it that I actually want to watch.

What's become of me?

:)

I used to watch probably 4 movies a week, turning around my Netflix within a day or two of receiving them. This week it took me two nights to manage to watch a cool movie (In America) (watched half one night, half the other night), and I've probably had it sitting here waiting to be watched for about 2 weeks. I'm too busy for movies now, it seems.

Between that and all of my favorite ABC shows that I watch online on reruns for the summer, things are getting kind of dry. Which is fine...not like I'm going to run out of things to do!

Do any of you have good TV shows, documentaries, or movies to recommend? I'm open to suggestions.

In the meantime, my To Read pile is getting bigger and bigger. Right in front of me I have a nice pile of books waiting for my attention.

I'm currently reading:

A Member of the Wedding (for book group)

Quaker Summer by Lisa Samson (started it a couple weeks ago, seems like a good book so far)

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd (This is the "dangerous" book I mentioned awhile back. Very interesting, challenging, thought-provoking. But takes a lot of my attention to work through, and right now I have set it aside because I don't have the brain space for it.)

Waiting to be read:

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (recommended by Big Momma at Bodie Bunch)

The Self-Hypnosis Diet (I want to read this as research for my own book project)

On Becoming Fearless by Arianna Huffington (non fiction, is supposed to inspire me as a business woman, I think)

The Mists of Avalon

Crossing to Avalon (both of these are related to my reading Dance of the Dissident Daughter. Don't know when I'll get to them)

Thirteen Steps Down (I won this during a blog carnival thing. The blog owner sent it to me all the way from England! I have no idea what it's about, but I'm planning to read it sometime.)

Healing and the Mind

The Innocent

The Little Book of Letting Go (I suspect I could really use this one soon)

Sidetracked Home Executives (hahahahahahahaha)

More Creative Dating (thought it would give me some good ideas for cheap dates)

Creative Times With Friends (God has given me some new friends!)

Healing Children Naturally (my mom sent me this and I've not gotten to read it yet)

The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump

many other business books in a stack upstairs.....

plus a couple books my mom is sending on some investment ideas that sound very cool

and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle on Hold for me at the library.....

I love paperback swap because it's almost like Netflix for books for me. When I hear about a book I'd like to read, I check to see if they have it. If so, I order it. If not, I add it to my Wish List. They automatically contact me when a book I want is available. (love that!) I just keep 'em coming and figure I'll get to 'em when I get to 'em. Much better than concerning myself with library due dates. When the book is mine I can ignore it as long as I want to. :)

Well, gotta get to school today. Happily, they didn't hate it yesterday! Hopefully it will be even better today.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gee...why don't you get a hobby with all of that time on your hands? :)
What's up with the the "dangerous" book? I read it awhile back and found it very interesting...now that I have a little daughter the supermarket scene packs even more of a punch...although I have yet to worship the goddess!

Mimi said...

I also love "Paperback Swap" but my "to read" pile is getting really big, so I'm trying to not order every book that looks good! It takes a lot of restraint.

TaunaLen said...

We just watched Miss Potter, thanks to Netflix. I loved it. Meanwhile my TBR pile is definitely not shrinking.

~TaunaLen

Dollymama said...

Tauna Len,
Miss Potter has been at the top of my queue since before it was released, and we STILL haven't received it! Must be very popular. I am looking forward to it. :)