2010 Books Read and Films Seen

A new year has begun, so it's time to clear the Reading and Films Seen lists. For posterity's sake, the 2010 lists are transferred here.

For my favourite books, short fiction, films, and music of 2010, go to Favourites of 2010.


2010 Reading List (Out of 4 Stars)
Absolution Gap (Alastair Reynolds, 2003) *** 1/2
Asimov's Science Fiction (Jan. 2010) *** 1/2

• Asimov's Science Fiction (Feb. 2010) ***
• Asimov's Science Fiction (Mar. 2010) ** 1/2
• Asimov's Science Fiction (Apr./May 2010) *** 1/2
• Beggars in Spain (Nancy Kress, 1993) ***
• Blue Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson, 1996) ****
• Boneshaker (Cherie Priest, 2009) **
• The Burning Skies (David J. Williams, 2009) *** 1/2
• The City & The City (China Miéville, 2009) *** 1/2
• Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age (Andrew Piper, 2009) *** 1/2
• The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins, 2008) *** 1/2
• I Am Legend (Richard Matheson, 1954) *** 1/2
• The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969) ****
• Little Brother (Cory Doctorow, 2009) ***
• The Machinery of Light (David J. Williams, 2010) *** 1/2
• The Mirrored Heavens (David J. Williams, 2008) *** 1/2
• Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005) ****
• The New Space Opera 2 (Dozois and Strahan, eds., 2009) ***
• The Quiet War (Paul McAuley, 2009) ** 1/2
• Redemption Ark (Alastair Reynolds, 2002) ****
• Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992) ***
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell, 2010) *****
• The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009) *** 1/2
• Wordsworth Translated: A Case Study in the Reception of British Romantic Poetry in Germany 1804-1914 (John Williams, 2009) ** 1/2
• Year's Best SF 15 (Hartwell and Cramer, eds., 2010) ***

Films Seen in 2010 (Out of 4 Stars)
8 1/2 (1963) ****

• 9 (2009) **
• (500) Days of Summer (2009) *** 1/2
• Alice in Wonderland (2010) ***
• Amelia (2009) **
• The American (2010) ****
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans (2009) *** 1/2
• The Blind Side (2009) ** 1/2
• The Book of Eli (2009) ***
• Cars (2006) ***
• Chloe (2009) ** 1/2
• Coco Avant Chanel (2009) ***
• The Cove (2009) ****
• Crazy Heart (2009) ****
• CUBE (1997) ***
• The Damned United (2009) ***
• Despicable Me (2010) ***
• An Education (2009) ****
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) *** 1/2
• Get Him to the Greek (2010) *** 1/2
• The Ghost Writer (2010) ****
• The Girl Who Played With Fire (2010) *** 1/2
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo(2009) ****
• Greenberg (2010) *** 1/2
• Green Zone (2010) *** 1/2
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (2010) *** 1/2
• Howl (2010) ** 1/2
• The Hurt Locker (2009) ****
• Inception (2010) ****
• The Invention of Lying (2009) ***
• Io Sono L'Amore (I Am Love) (2010) ****
• Kick-Ass (2010) *** 1/2
• Kung Fu Panda (2008) ***
• Megamind (2010) **
• Monsters (2010) *** 1/2
• Moon (2009) ****
• Never Let Me Go (2010) ****
• Nowhere Boy (2010) *** 1/2
• Un Prophète (2009) ****
• Public Enemies (2009) ** 1/2
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) *** 1/2
• The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) (2009) ****
• A Serious Man (2009) ****
• Sherlock Holmes (2009) ***
• Shrek Forever After (2010) ** 1/2
• A Single Man (2009) *** 1/2
• Sin Nombre (2009) ****
• The Social Network (2010) ***
• Splice (2010) **
• The Trotsky (2010) ***
• Waiting for "Superman" (2010) *** 1/2
• Whip It (2009) *** 1/2
• The White Ribbon (2009) ****
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