New Year Lists

My list is so late it's already 2011 but I'm making it anyway. These are some things that I loved last year. Not all of the things happened or were published in 2010. But that's when I found them.


My favourite... 


short story 
Thanks to Emma who told me about it. It's by Karen Russell and here she reads the short story from Children's Reminiscences of the Westward Migration.

I also loved Emma Schwarcz's story, Harry. You can find it in New Australian Stories 2, edited by Aviva Tuffield and published by Scribe. Any of the stories told on This American Life. In particular Darin Strauss' account found in 359: LIFE AFTER DEATH ACT ONE: GUILTY AS NOT CHARGED. My favourite word

books
Six Impossible Things (Fiona Wood)
Everything Beautiful (Simmone Howell)
Little Paradise (Gabrielle Wang)
Winter's Bone (Daniel Woodrell)
Five Parts Dead (Tim Pegler)
Paper Towns (John Green)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (David Levithan/John Green)
The Sky is Everywhere (Jandy Nelson)
Speak and Wintergirls (Laurie Halse Anderson)

podcasts and radio programs
This American Life especially 409 Held Hostage and the list of fears made by Michael Bernard Loggins read here in 234 Say Anything. Act One is beautiful and so sad too. 
The Moth podcast (everything I listen to here I love)

things that happened
My friend rescued kittens from her walls and her ceiling fan
My mum gave me her eight-gear shiny blue bike and soon I will be riding again

glass artist
Dale Chihuly

there are other things for my list but that's it for now.