Books, Movies, Fun in 2010

Just a last rounding up post before the new year sets in.

The books I read thanks to the reviews by various bloggers.

1) Maximum City - Suketu Mehta - good one

2) Dork - Sidin Vadukut - fun

3) May I Hebb ur attention pliss - Arnab Ray - fun

4) By The Water Cooler- Parul Sharma - fun

5) Stranger to History- Aatish Taseer -mixed feelings

6) The Immortals of Meluha- Amish - okie dokie

7) The White Tiger- Arvind Adiga- okie dokie

And some other fiction stuff, John Grisham, Jeffrey Archer,Frederick Forsyth and David Baldacci.

The Films we watched on DVD: from seventymm list.

No.   Movie Name      Comments

1. Knight and Day - okie dokie
2. The Invention of Lying - only J saw, bit too boring

3. The Book of Eli - only J saw, bit too boring

4. Leap Year - nice, rom com

5. The Spy Next Door - okie dokie, time pass

6. Edge of Darkness - nice thriller

7. Flicka 2 - nice , family

8. Udaan - nice

9. Date Night - super fun, nice

10. Baby Mama - okie dokie, time pass

11. Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang - nice, family

12. All About Steve - didn’t watch, dvd not working

13. Hotel For Dogs - nice, family

14. The Blind Side - very nice

15. Hot Tub Time Machine - only J saw, bit too boring

16. Tooth Fairy - nice, family

17. Meet Bill - okie dokie, time pass

18. Green Zone-  good

19. Up in the Air -very nice

20. 27 Dresses - nice, family

21. Juno - good

22. Hancock - only J saw

23. The Bounty Hunter - okie dokie, time pass

24. Inglourious Basterds - good

25. Extra Ordinary Measure - good, family

26. Shutter Island - good

27. Leatherheads - didn’t watch, dvd not working

28. It's Complicated - good, family

29. Percy Jackson & the Olympians:.. okie dokie, time pass

30. Street Kings - okie dokie, time pass

31. Invictus - good

32. Valentine's Day - good, family, nice

33. Gran Torino - good

34. Sherlock Holmes - good

35. Public Enemies - okie dokie, time pass

36. Death At A Funeral -good, fun

37. Open Season 2 - nice, family

38. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - nice, family

39. Toy Story II - nice, family

We also saw a lot of other tamil/ hindi/ eng movies from another library before july.

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Movies seen in Theatre in 2010

1. Endhiran - 2nd day 3rd show

2. Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai

3. Dabangg

4. Shrek 3

5. Toy Story 3

6. Raajneeti

7. Badmaash Company - saw in theatre in coimbatore in May, only me n J went for nite show.

I had also blogged abt the movie going experience many many months ago.

Movies I missed watching in 2010 in theatres:

1. Harry Potter - deathly hallows 1

2. The Social Network

3.Inception

Am waiting for these to come on dvd.

And of cos, seen a lot of hindi/ eng/ Tam films on cd/dvd/ tv etc.

So thats a round up of the entertainment we had this year.

of cos, we also did the following :

1) Zoo Visit - April

2) Aquarium visit - Jan

3) Borivali National Park visit -Novmber

4) Summer Holiday Visit - Ooty, Coonoor ,Coimbatore, Chennai - May

5) Jaipur, Ajmer visit - J bde, anniv - July

6) Lonavla Visit- My bde -June

7) Anand , Gujarat Visit - March

8) Lavasa - Nov

9) Rambo Circus - Nov

There were no weddings this year in the family.

Trips we planned but didnt go: Hyderabad (cancelled due to Momo's Mouth ulcer episode)

Places I want to visit in 2011: Goa, Mahabaleshwar, Bangalore, some hill station in the summer,  an international destination cos now Momo can understand and enjoy.