Books and Movies of 2015

Books

Fell short of my goals and read less than last year! But I'm okay with that... because I was part-time for part of last year. 2015 had books that I started but didn't finish -- and books that I sped through.

• Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut, 1961)
• Ready Player One (Ernest Cline, 2011)
• The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein, 2008)
• The Martian (Andy Weir, 2011)
• The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut, 1959)
• The Time Machine (H.G. Wells, 1895)
• Where Does it Hurt?: An Entrepeneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care (Jonathan Bush, 2014)
• [discontinued] The Island (Aldous Huxley, 1962)

My favorite was The Art of Racing in the Rain because it really reflected how I've been learning to live my life -- fluid, one step at a time, and with joy.

The most interesting was Mother Night because Kurt Vonnegut's writing never disappoints me. "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

The funniest was The Martian because the writing voice was unabashed and it catered to the nerdy soul and engineer in me.

The most disappointing was The Island by Alduous Huxley... because there was too much content. It had so many great ideas but I couldn't get past the writing. I didn't finish but I will try again another year.

Movies

I watched a lot more movies this year and also re-watched a lot of movies. The movies are listed alphabetically but size indicates how it ranks among the other movies I watched in 2015:

• Back to the Future (1985)
• Bridesmaids (2011)
• Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
• Chicago (2002)
• End of Watch (2012)
• Gone Girl (2014)
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
• Her (2013)
• Inside Out (2015)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
• The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
• The Interview (2014)
• The Theory of Everything (2014)
• Wild (2014)
• [re] Aladdin (1992)
• [re] Beauty and the Beast (1992)
• [re] Hitch (2005)
• [re] Sweeney Todd (2007)
• [re] Tarzan (1999)
• [re] The Emperor's New Groove (1999)
• [re] The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• [re] Titanic (1997)
• [re] Wolf Children (2012)