February's List

February's media consumption slowed down a bit, but still pretty good:

Books:

Jan:

1. The Hunger Games

2. Catching Fire

3. Mockingjay

4. The Janitor's Boy

5. The Road

Feb:

6. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

7. Strider

8. Touching the Void

9. Perloo the Bold

Favorite so Far: The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, but The Hunger Games is close.
Biggest Surprise: The Janitor's Boy, by Andrew Clements. Nice examination of the father/son relationship, especially for a children's book.
Biggest Disappointment: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. I really wanted to like this book better than I did, but it was just too bleak for me.

Movies:

Jan:

1. Inception

2. Knight and Day

3. Tuck Everlasting

4. The Mighty

5. The Adjustment Bureau

6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon

7. Sherlock Holmes

8. Mr. Popper's Penguins

9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid

10. X-Men: First Class

11. Dolphin Tale

12. Taken

Feb:

13. Gnomeo and Juliet

14. The Tourist

15. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

16. Bean: The Movie

17. Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker

18. Killers

19. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

Favorite so far: Inception, hands down. Very well done. I enjoyed The Adjustment Bureau as well.
Biggest Surprise: Probably Sherlock Holmes, I enjoyed it more than I expected.
Biggest Disappointment: Transformers, even though I wasn't expecting much, Bay didn't even meet those expectations.Breaking Dawn wasn't great either.