Sunday, December 2, 2007

December

Books
Michael Chabon: The yiddish policemen's union
Khaled Hosseini: A thousand splendid suns

Movies
The Darjeeling Limited
Take the money and run
Little children
Scoop
Hvordan slipper vi af med de andre
Il Ladro di bambini
Prag

Saturday, November 3, 2007

November

Books
Jonas Hassen Khemiri: Montecore: en unik tiger
Katrine Marie Guldager: Lysgrænsen
Haruki Murakami: After dark

Movies
Strings
Closer
In this world
Inland Empire
Marie Antoinette
The Science of sleep

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

October

Books
Mark Haddon: A spot of bother
Daniel Clowes: Ghost world
Guy Delisle: Pyongyang
Andrew Sean Greer: The confessions of Max Tivoli
Paula Fox: Desperate characters

Movies
Die Fälscher
Fire nuancer af brunt
Inside Man
The Fountain
Eastern Promises
Junebug
Pan's Labyrinth

Sunday, September 2, 2007

September

Books
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix

Movies/Series
Thank you for smoking
The killing of a chinese bookie
The Proposition
Princess
Ice age 2
Crimes and misdemeanors
Extras, season 2
Arrested Development, season 2

Monday, August 6, 2007

August

Books
David Zane Mairowitz, Robert Crumb: Kafka for begyndere
Sebastian Fitzek: Terapien
Lars Saabye Christensen: Herman
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
Johnny Cash: Cash: The Autobiography
Stieg Larsson: Mænd der hader kvinder

Movies/Series
Memoirs of a Geisha
Last life in the universe
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Unbelievable Truth
Lady Vengeance
Blood diamond
Arrested Development, season 1
Allegro

Monday, July 9, 2007

July

Books
Mirja Unge: Mod uret
Halgrimur Helgason: Islands forfatter

Movies/Series
The Host
Á bout de souffle
Down by Law
Lost, season 2
Le Salaire de la peur
Oldboy
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Death Proof

Saturday, June 2, 2007

June

Books
Erlend Loe: Naiv. Super.
Jonas T. Bengtsson: Submarino
Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore
Jonas T. Bengtsson: Aminas breve

Movies
The Woodsman
Tarnation
Factotum
Tristram Shandy
Grizzly Man
United 93
Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch. Two hustlers and an hungarian cousin and their dull everyday life. They´re looking for something to happen)
Mansfield Park (average Jane Austen story)
Young Adam
Tsotsi (About the life of a young criminal in the township. Highly recommended)

Saturday, May 12, 2007

May

Books
Sjón: Skygge-Baldur (great tale from one of Icelands finest authors)
Kim Leine: Kalak (a story of abuse and addiction. Highly recommended..the book)
Siri Hustvedt: En bøn for Eros (essays. An ok read)

Movies
We don't live here anymore
American Splendor (funny story about the grumpy outsider Harry Pekar)
Romance & Cigarettes (ok, funny musical. I liked Christopher Walken)
Pushing Hands (early Ang Lee)
Enduring Love (nice surprise. Daniel Craig in leading role)
Kunsten at græde i kor
Spiderman 3
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (beautiful, mystifying, funny and..violent)
Rebecca (it's Hitchcock. Need I say more..)
The Eel (a bit too strange for me)
White Oleander

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

April

Books
Naja Marie Aidt: Bavian (highly recommended)
J.M. Coetzee: Slow man (this one didn't do it for me, but I recommend some of his previous books. "Disgrace" is the best novel his ever written, and an all-time favourite of mine)
Jason Lutes: Berlin
Jan Poulsen: David Bowie - station til station
Peter Carey: My life as a fake
David B.: Epileptic (great graphic novel)
Haruki Murakami: Sputnik sweetheart (one of my favourite authors)

Movies
Sunshine (good sci-fi flick from Danny Boyle)
The Da Vinci Code (sucks, no surprise)
The Brown Bunny (veeery slooow)
Samaritan girl (strange and beautiful)
Mean Creek (quite good)
The day after tomorrow (admitted, I only saw it because of Jake Gyllenhaal)
Spring, summer, autumn, winter (fantastic!)
Capote (great acting by Phillip Seymour Hoffmann)
Borat (I will never forget the nude-scene)
Little Miss Sunshine (sweet and warm)

Monday, January 29, 2007

Books 2007

Katrine Marie Guldager: København
Michael Cunningham: Specimen Days
Douglas Coupland: Eleanor Rigby
Sjón: Dine øjne så mig
Dave Eggers: You Shall Know Our Velocity
Svend Aage Madsen: Det syvende bånd
Audur Jonsdottir: The People in the Basement
Boris Akunin: Leviathan

Books 2006

Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Ali Smith: The Accidental
Lars Saabye Christensen: Oscar Wildes elevator
Pia Juul: Dengang med hunden
Haruki Murakami: Dance, dance, dance
Jonatham Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn
Lars Saabye Christensen: Modellen
Erling Jepsen: Frygtelig lykkelig
Fjodor Dostojevskij: The Gambler
Nick Flynn: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Erling Jepsen: Med venlig deltagelse
Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase
Orhan Pamuk: Snow
Marjane Satrapi: Broderies
Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World
Paul Auster: The Red Notebook (re-read)
Lars Saabye Christensen: The Half-Brother
Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, David Mazzucchelli: City of Glass
Siri Hustvedt: The Blindfold
Mikael Josephsen: Opløb
Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Siri Hustvedt: The Blindfold
Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium
José Saramago: The Double
Donna Tartt: The Little Friend
Umberto Eco: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Jan Kjærstad: Opdageren
Hui Wei: Shanghai Baby
Marjaneh Bahktiari: Kald det hvad fanden du vil
Louis de Bernieres: Birds Without Wings
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 1+2
Frank Miller: Sin City
Michael Connelly: Vildfaren måne
Paul Auster: Moon Palace (re-read)
Zoe Heller: Notes on a Scandal
Hanif Kureishi: Gabriels Gift
Sara Blædel: Kald mig prinsesse
Simon Glinvad: Petersborg Express
Ida Jessen: Det første jeg tænker på
Jan Kjærstad: The Seducer (re-read)

Movies 2007

You, Me and Everyone We Know
Kinamand
The Dreamers
The New World
Cars
The Sheltering Sky
Transamerica
Napoleon Dynamite
Bin-jip
Apocalyptico
The Last King of Scotland
Everything is Illuminated
Children of Men
Pride & Prejudice
The Prestige