movies.

MO > IE?
Originally uploaded by Luna Soledad

I'm sure there are more, but here's one hundred and thirty of my all-time favorites...

1. A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
2. A Woman at War (1991)
3. Alice in Wonderland (2010)
4. Amistad (1997)
5. Amélie (2001)
6. As Good as It Gets (1997)
7. Avatar (2009)
8. Benny & Joon (1993)
9. Bill (1981)
10. Blood Diamond (2006)
11. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
12. Cars (2006)
13. Casablanca (1942)
    
14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
15. Chitty Chity Bang Bang (1968)
16. Chocolat (2000)
17. Crash (2004)
18. Dead Poets Society (1989)
19. Dogma (1999)
20. Don Juan DeMarco (1994)
21. Donnie Brasco (1997)
22. Donnie Darko (2001)
23. Dracula (1992)
24. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
25. Drop Dead Fred (1991)
26. Dying Young (1991)
27. East is East (1999)
28. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
29. Elizabeth (1998)
30. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
31. Ever After (1998)
32. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
33. Finding Neverland (2004)
34. Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
35. Forest Gump (1994)
36. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
37. Good Will Hunting (1997)
38. Gran Torino (2008)
39. Groundhog Day (1993)
40. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
41. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
42. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
43. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
44. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
45. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
46. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
47. Hideous Kinky (1998)
48. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
49. House of Fools (2002)
50. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
51. Immortal Beloved (1994)
52. Into the Wild (2007)
53. Juno (2007)
54. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
55. Kingpin (1996)
56. Labyrinth (1986)
57. Life is Beautiful (1997)
58. Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
59. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
60. Lost in Translation (2003)
61. Mama Mia (2008)
62. Mary Poppins (1964)
63. Mask (1985)
64. Milo and Otis (1986)
65. Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
66. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
67. My Neighbor Tortoro (1988)
68. Nine Months (1995)
69. North Country (2005)
70. Office Space (1999)
    
71. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
72. Patch Adams (1998)
73. Powder (1995)
74. Pretty in Pink (1986)
75. Pretty Woman (1990)
76. Pulp Fiction (1994)
77. Roommates (1995)
78. Run Lola Run (1998)
79. Serendipity (2001)
80. Scent of a Woman (1992)
81. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
82. Shrek (2001)
83. Shrek 2 (2004)
84. Shrek the Third (2007)
85. Shrek Forever After (2010)
86. Shindler's List (1993)
87. Sixteen Candles (1984)
88. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
89. Spirited Away (2001)
90. Temple Grandin (2010)
91. Steel Magnolias (1989)
92. The Black Dahlia (2006)
93. The Blind Side (2009)
94. The Bucket List (2007)
95. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
96. The Doors (1991)
97. The Fisher King (1991)
98. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
99. The Green Mile (1999)
100. The Hangover (2009)
101. The Hurt Locker (2009)
102. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
103. The Matchmaker (1997)
104. The Miracle Worker (1962)
105. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
106. The Pianist (2002)
107. The Princess Bride (1987)
108. The Professional (1994)
109. The Reader (2008)
110. The Red Violin (1998)
111. The Ref (1994)
     
112. The Saint (1997)
113. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
114. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
115. The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
116. The Usual Suspects (1995)
     
117. The Waterdance (1992)
118. The Wedding Singer (1998)
119. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
120. Thelma & Louise (1991)
121. Thunderheart (1992)
122. Titanic (1997)
123. Tombstone (1993)
124. Up (2009)
125. Wedding Crashers (2005)
126. Whale Rider (2002)
127. What Dreams May Come (1998)
128. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
129. Whip It (2009)
130. Zombieland (2009)

"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."

...Joseph L. Mankiewicz

books.

Look Away.
Originally uploaded by Luna Soledad

An incomplete, alphabetical list of some of my favorites:

• "13 1/2" by Nevada Barr
• "A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana" by Haven Kimmel
• "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
• "Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths" by Bruce Feiler
• "Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood" by Hollis Gillespie
• "Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories" by Hollis Gillespie
• "Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America" by Firoozeh Dumas
• "Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu" by J. Maarten Troost
• "Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure" by Sarah Macdonald
• "Jesusland: A Memoir" by Julia Scheeres
• "Let the Right One In: A Novel" by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke
• "My Lobotomy" by Howard Dully
• "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T.S. Eliot
• "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout
• "Rain of Gold" by Victor E. Villaseñor
• "Road-side Dog" by Czeslaw Milosz
• "She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana" by Haven Kimmel
• "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach
• "Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" by Mitch Albom
• "The Bridges of Madison County" by Robert James Waller
• "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
• "The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir" by Roma Ligocka
  
• "The Glass Castle: A Memoir" by Jeannette Walls
• "The Help" by Katheryn Stockett
• "The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel" by Kathleen Kent
• "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
• "The Mercy of Thin Air" by Ronlyn Domingue
• "The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust" by Edith H. Beer
• "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry" edited by Alan Kaufman
• "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink
• "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
• "The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific" by J. Maarten Troost
• "The Space Between Us: A Novel" by Thirty Umrigar
• "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
• "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" by Sylvia Plath
• "Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets" edited by Jordan Trachtenberg
• "Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears" by Jerry Ellis

"There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."

...Ralph Waldo Emerson