Best (and Worst) of 2007… January 1, 2008
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Best:
Pride and Prejudice (A & E version) — very nice, it obviously gets a lot of the detail in which shorter versions can’t.
Facing the Giants is a good movie… and the bloopers are hilariously quotable.
Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a hysterical movie. I don’t recommend eating while you are watching it; if you do, I refuse to be held responsible for your death. I’ve warned you.
Worst:
Happy Feet. The one movie that I purposely missed the end of. BLECK.
Books:
Best:
Stephen Lawhead’s Pendragon Trilogy. I love Myrddin Emrys. It’s something that my friends just have to deal with. And (bad me) I sprang it on Samwise pretty much like that, only at about two in the morning coming home from Florida.
A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanuaken. This book is absolutely incredible. And… actually… it would be great if you stop reading my post, go read that book, and then get back to me.
Heretics and Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. Wow. Although he does a fair amount of Calvinism-bashing… could cause insanity in me since he just bashes it, and not really anything about it. Other than believing in predestination (which apparently he had confused with fatalism. Sigh.) But that was the downside; other than that (in my never ever humble opinion!) they were excellent books.
Worst:
Unfortunately… the Kate Martinelli mysteries by Laurie King. Gak. Here I was thinking they’d be light, pleasant flashlight reading and they’re about a lesbian cop. There went light. And they have a lot of perverted details. There went pleasant. There went my reading. Oh well. I always have Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians, right?
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: RUN AWAY!!!! *GAGS* Seriously, this book… BLECK. Don’t read it. If I was censoring it, it would be going from a 500+ page book to a five page brochure on the dangers of time travelling. Totally immoral and… *walks away mumbling “And I thought the Canterbury Tales were bad.”)
C.D.s
Best:
As far as CCM CDs were concerned, this was a great year for me. MercyMe’s Coming Up to Breathe, Sanctus Real’s Face of Love. Newboys’ Go, Jars of Clay’s Good Monsters. Aaron Shust’s Whispered and Shouted and The Swift’s Singing Back To You, Trace Bundy’s Adapt. Derek Webb’s The Ringing Bell and Casting Crowns’ The Altar and the Door.
There wasn’t too much in the way of “worst”. A few. But you probably already heard rants about them.
Various other good stuff: The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Robot series. Shaun Grove’s song Welcome Home, Cover Me by Bebo Norman, Isn’t It Love by Andrew Peterson, and Protest to Praise by Down Here.
And. There we go.
Goodnight!
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*laugh* I know what you mean about insanity when it comes to Calvinism-bashing. I try not to read books like that *too* often…my though patterns tend to disintegrate into:
“Argh! No, author! You are completely missing the point! Why on earth do you say that? How you can you be sane and not see this? How can you be so annoying? Why do I do this to myself? I’ll go read John Calvin now, to soothe my nerves…”
Life’s tough being a Calvinist.
But, just in case it wasn’t clear, I like G.K. Chesterton too…from what I’ve read.
*nods* First two movies are dang awesome, haven’t seen the others. Haven’t read any of the books you mentioned, and most of the bands for the cd’s I’ve never even heard of, haha. But I do absolutely LOVE Casting Crowns. ^_^
I have to say that one of the best parts of 2007 was me being able to see YOU and your wonderful family more times than I expected. *hugs* ^_^
We LOVE the A and E version of Pride And Prejudice. It was so well-done and so true to the book. The new version is…well…NOT something we love…
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-StrongJoy