These are my favorites from 2008; although I read or listened to or watched them in 2008, most are older than that.
- Movies
- Amy
- Once
- The Boys and Girl from
- Wall-E
- Young @ Heart
Books
- Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
Better: a surgeon’s notes on performance – Atul Gawande - Blue Angel: a novel – Francine Prose
- Keeper and Kid – Edward Hardy
- Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson
- A Little Love Story – Roland Merullo
- Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and other things I’ve learned - Alan Alda
- Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
- Three Daughters – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O’Farrell
- Zen and the Art of Faking It - Jordan Sonnenblick
Music CDs
- Once: Music from the Motion Picture – Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
- Appasionata - YoYo Ma
- The Voice of the Violin – Joshua Bell
Portable Diversions
Tiny crocheted baskets. 
I used my spinning wheel to ply some old one ply Harrisville wools, so I was essentially designing the baskets while plying the wool.
An easy project to carry in pocket or purse.
2 comments:
Janet,
Your little baskets are lovely.
Since looms aren't too portable and I'm not much of a knitter I continually seek out small projects so that I'm never caught with timeon my hands and nothing to do. It's very centering to have such a project to work on when you're stuck in the emergency room for hours with a sick parent.
I noticed that you mentioned Young@Heart. Would that be the Young at Heart Chorus?
Yes, the movie is about the Young at Heart Chorus. I think it was originally just a youtube video and was so popular they made a movie. I've been hanging out with a sick parent too, which is one reason I love my portable projects.
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