To be a dumb gay person is a luxury that was won for you by gay people who came before when being gay was so complicated and so difficult that dumb gay people didn’t last.

- Dan Savage

T I L D A.

Just a note of clarification: the "Visual Check List" sidebar is a list of all the movies I've watched this year. It's a meager attempt at being more decisive regarding the number and quality of films I watch in an effort to increase the amount of productivity in my life.

Complete Book List for 2011

• 30. Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire
• 29. After Dark - Haruki Murakami
• 28. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
• 27. Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me - Chelsea's family, friends, and other victims
• 26. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
• 25. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - Chelsea Handler
• 24. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler
• 23. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands - Chelsea Handler
• 22. The Curfew - Jesse Ball
• 21. Not a Star - Nick Hornby
• 20. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
• 19. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
• 18. Howard's End - E.M. Forster
• 17. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• 16. Suicide - Edouard Levé
• 15. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
• 14. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
• 13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
• 12. Collected Stories - Franz Kafka
• 11. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
• 10. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
• 9. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
• 8. The Way Through Doors - Jesse Ball
• 7. Close to Jedenew - Kevin Vennemann
• 6. The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honoré de Balzac
• 5. Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
• 4. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
• 3. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde
• 2. Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde
• 1. The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde