Happy New Year! Let’s get right to it!

Rather than list all the movies I’ve seen, I am listing the films I graded with an A or A-. Here they are, in order of my viewing:

1. Avatar: The Way of Water   A-
2. Air   A-
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3   A-
4. The Little Mermaid   A
5. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny   A-
6. Past Lives   A-
7. Barbie   A
8. Are You There G-d, It’s Me, Margaret    A-
9. Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One  A-
10. Taylor Swift Era’s Tour   A

Following are the books I read in 2023 (in the order I read them). If I recommend it, it will have an *:

1. *Love on the Brain – Ali Hazelwood
2. *The Most Likely Club – Elyssa Friedland
3. *The Bodyguard – Katherine Center
4. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing – Matthew Perry
5. *Loathe to Love You – Ali Hazelwood
6. The Hunter – L.J. Shen
7. *Georgie, All Along – Kate Clayborn
8. *Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
9. Before We Were Strangers – Renee Carlino
10. Priest – Sierra Simone
11. Eight Perfect Hours – Lia Louis
12. Neon Gods – Katee Robert
13. Someone Else’s Shoes – Jojo Moyes
14. *Romantic Comedy – Curtis Sittenfeld
15. *Happy Place – Emily Henry
16. Pineapple Street – Jenny Jackson
17. *The True Love Experiment – Christina Lauren
18. Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
19. *Love, Theoretically – Ali Hazelwood
20. Best Men – Sidney Karger
21. *The Guncle – Steven Rowley
22. Bad Summer People – Emma Rosenblum
23. Cassandra in Reverse – Holly Smale
24. Grumpy Cowboy – Max Monroe
25. *Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
26. Do Tell – Lindsay Lynch
27. *Same Time Next Summer – Annabel Monaghan
28. *When in Rome – Sarah Adams
29. *Someone Just Like You – Meredith Schorr
30. *Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
31. *Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers – Jesse Q. Sutano
32. My Roommate is a Vampire – Jenna Levine
33. *Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros
34. *Maybe Once, Maybe Twice – Alison Rose
35. *Mother-Daughter Murder Night – Nina Simon
36. *The Woman in Me – Britney Spears

My favorites of the bunch:

1. Romantic Comedy
2. Mad Honey
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures
4. Fourth Wing
5. The Guncle
6. The True Love Experiment
7. Happy Place/Love on the Brain/Loathe to Love You/Love, Theoretically
8. Demon Copperhead

Favorite TV:

1. “Shrinking”
2. “The Last of Us” – esp ep 3 “Long, Long Time”
3. “The Bear” – my fave episode was “Forks” but there was a great write up in Entertainment Weekly (linked) of how they cast the frenetic episode “Fishes” if you’d like to read it.
4. “Lessons in Chemistry”
5. “Will Trent”

Concerts

I saw SO many amazing concerts this year! If you get the chance, go see: John Mayer, Taylor Swift (duh), Stevie Nicks, Paramore, Bryan Adams, The Cure, Beyonce’, Adele, the B52’s, Depeche Mode and Queen ft Adam Lambert.

All things Taylor Swift 

If you can’t get enough, read the terrific article in Time Magazine (linked) which named her Person of the Year for 2023 and listen to the episode of The Daily, The Year of Taylor Swift (linked).

Thanks, as always, for reading!!! May 2024 be healthy, happy and full of many lovely moments – happy new year!!