Well, it’s already the end of the year and it’s time for
my list of favorite things watched and read in 2014. I’ll try and get a 2014
year in review post together at some point also. It’s been quite a year for us!
Movies
I haven’t yet seen the new Hunger Games, Interstellar, Big Hero 6, the new Hobbit movie, Foxcatcher, The Imitation Game, or Big Eyes. Maybe some of those will make my 2015 list.
Here are some movies I really enjoyed watching this past
year, all for various reasons.
A Most Wanted Man
– Great slow burn espionage film based on one of John Le Carre’s novels.
Captain Phillips
Dirty Wars
(documentary)
Edge of Tomorrow
Ernest and
Celestine
The Gatekeepers
(documentary) – Very interesting documentary about the Israel/Palestine
conflict as told through the eyes of multiple former Shin Bet heads from the
past few decades. Highly recommend regardless of your level of knowledge about
the conflict.
The Great Gatsby
Muppets Treasure
Island and Muppets Christmas Carol
– These, along with Muppets from Space
are my favorite Muppet movies of all time.
Nebraska
Philomena
Prisoners –
Definitely a favorite. The story was so well told and had so many twists.
Chilling and completely engrossing, I was thinking about it for days.
The Rape of Europa
(documentary) – The true history behind The
Monuments Men
The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty – Beautifully shot
Tiny: A Story About
Living Small (documentary)
Books
This year, I read 31 books. Here are some of my favorites
from that bunch. For a complete list of all the books I’ve read this year,
friend me on Goodreads!
Fiction (17 books read in 2014)
Animal Farm by
George Orwell
Bluebeard by
Kurt Vonnegut
Great Expectations by
Charles Dickens
The Harry Potter
series by J. K. Rowling – I’ve decided to try and read through the whole series
every two years. This was my second time through and I loved it just as much if
not more this time around.
Interpreter of
Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Joy Luck Club by
Amy Tan
Non-Fiction (6 books read in 2014)
Blink by
Malcolm Gladwell
David and Goliath
by Malcolm Gladwell
Hanns and Rudolf:
The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of
Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
Outliers by
Malcolm Gladwell (obviously I was on a Malcolm Gladwell run this year)
Wilson by A.
Scott Berg
Christian living (8 books read in 2014)
Erasing Hell by
Francis Chan
Generous Justice
by Timothy Keller
When Helping Hurts
by Steve Corbett
Let me know what I should read and watch next year in
2015!
