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Friday, April 13, 2012

MELANCHOLIA
Denmark, Sweden, France
Germany, Italy 2011
DIR Lars von Trier
SCR Lars von Trier
CAST Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt

Approaching the 2 hour mark, I'm starting to root for the rogue planet.

2023

● Poverty, By America
Matthew Desmond

● The Vulnerables
Sigrid Nunez

● Who By Fire
War, Atonement, And
The Resurrection of Leonard Cohen
Matti Friedman

● At Night All
Blood is Black
David Diop

● Atonement
Ian McEwan

● A New Ireland
How Europe's Most Conservative Country Became Its Most Liberal
Niall O'Dowd

● Strangers to Ourselves
Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Rachel Aviv

● Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann

● The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann

● The Wren, The Wren
Anne Enright

● The Fraud
Zadie Smith

● Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy

● Don't Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You
Lucinda Williams

● Old God's Time
Sebastian Barry

● Just Once, No More
Charles Foran

● If On a Winter's
Night a Stranger
Italo Calvino

● Cloudsplitter
Russell Banks

● The Story of the
Lost Child
Elena Ferrante

● The Idiot
Elif Batuman

● Some Hellish
Nicholas Herring

2022

● Recollections of
My Nonexistence
Rebecca Solnit

● The Promise
Damon Galgut

● Let Me Tell You
What I Mean
Joan Didion

● Lessons
Ian McEwan

● American Urbanist /
How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life
Richard K. Rein

● Where You End
and I Begin
Leah McLaren

● A Complicated Kindness
Miriam Toews

● Walking Home / The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Ken Greenberg

● Interior States
Meghan O'Gieblyn

● Stray Dogs
Rawi Hage

● Irish Journal
Heinrich Böll

● We Don't Know Ourselves / A Personal History of Modern Ireland
Fintan O'Toole

● A Brief History of Equality
Thomas Piketty

● In Transit
Mavis Gallant

● Reptile House
Robin McLean

● The Sentence
Louise Erdrich

● The Bond King − How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
Mary Childs

● Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami

● The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky

● How to Avoid a
Climate Disaster
Bill Gates

● Homesick
for Another World
Ottessa Moshfegh

● Scarborough
Catherine Hernandez

● The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich

● Moby Dick
Herman Melville

● Pity the Beast
Robin McLean
● Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith

2021

Fight Night / Miriam Toews
People Cities : The Life and Legacy of Jan Gehl / Annie Matan + Peter Newman
God Human Animal Machine : Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning / Meghan O'Gieblyn
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead / Olga Tokarczuk
What Are You Going Through / Sigrid Nunez
The Friend / Sigrid Nunez
Shuggie Bain / Douglas Stuart
Flights / Olga Tokarczuk
Harlem Shuffle / Colson Whitehead
* Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard
A Moveable Feast : Restored Edition / Ernest Hemingway
* To the Lighthouse / Virginia Woolf
The Maytrees / Annie Dillard
* An American Childhood / Annie Dillard
* On Caaan's Side / Sebastian Barry

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**The Abundance / Annie Dillard
That Old Country Music / Kevin Barry
** Inside Story — A Novel / Martin Amis
Cascade / Craig Davidson
Emotionally Weird / Kate Atkinson
* Money : The True Story of a Made-Up Thing / Jacob Goldstein
A Thousand Moons / Sebastian Barry
The Committed / Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sun Also Rises / Ernest Hemingway
Three Stories and Ten Poems / Ernest Hemingway
* Life After Life / Kate Atkinson
In Our Time / Ernest Hemingway
How to Pronounce Knife / Souvankham Thammavongsa
* When More is Not Better − Overcoming America's Obsession With Economic Efficiency / Roger L. Martin
Right of Way : Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America / Angie Schmitt
* Nomadland : Surviving America in the 21st Century / Jessica Bruder
Through the Garden / Lorna Crozier
The Lying Life of Adults / Elena Ferrante
No One is Talking About This / Patricia Lockwood
* The Great Believers / Rebecca Makkai
The Island Walkers / John Bemrose
** Priestdaddy / Patricia Lockwood
Death in Her Hands / Ottessa Moshfegh
Losing the Signal − The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry / Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
👎 Snow / John Banville

2020

This Wheel's on Fire − Levon Helm and the Story of the Band / Levon Helm and Stephen Davis
Martin Eden / Jack London
Neighborhood / Emily Talen
*The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion
The Celtic Twilight / W.B. Yeats
The Only Story / Julian Barnes
Love / Roddy Doyle
Strange Hotel / Eimear McBride
Palaces For The People − How social infrastructure can help fight inequality, polarization and the decline of civic life / Eric Klinenberg
The Water Dancer / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dark Lies the Island / Kevin Barry
Maximum Canada − Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough / Doug Saunders
* Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion
* Actress / Anne Enright
* The Price of Peace − Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes / Zachary D. Carter
People, Power, and Profits / Joseph E. Stiglitz
Julieta, Three Stories / Alice Munro, Foreword by Pedro Almodóvar
Our Lady of the Flowers / Jean Genet
Little Cat / Tamara Faith Berger
* The Hare With Amber Eyes, A Hidden Inheritance / Edmund de Waal
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves / Karen Joy Fowler
Recollections of My Nonexistence / Rebecca Solnit
* Maidenhead / Tamara Faith Berger
Queen Solomon / Tamara Faith Berger
The City is Not a Tree, The 50th Anniversary Edition / Christopher Alexander, ed Michael Mehaffy
Apeirogon / Colum McCann
Minor Monuments / Ian Maleney
A Change of Climate / Hilary Mantel
** Night Boat to Tangier / Kevin Barry
The Nickel Boys / Colson Whitehead
The Cockroach / Ian McEwan
* City of Bohane / Kevin Barry
* There Are Little Kingdoms / Kevin Barry
* Beatlebone / Kevin Barry
* Strong Towns, A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity / Charles Marohn
The Wreckage / Michael Crummey
The Dalkey Archive / Flann O'Brien
* Cane / Jean Toomer
Flights / Olga Tokarczuk

2019

* The Innocents / Michael Crummey
No Place To Go : How Public Toilets Fail Our Public Needs / Leslie Lowe
Chop Suey Nation / Ann Hui
Apron Strings / Jan Wong
A Man of the People / Chinua Achebe
Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
I Heard You Paint Houses / Charles Brandt
Walking Home, The Life and Lessons of a City Builder / Ken Greenberg
The Walkable City : From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond / Mary Soderstrom
* My Year of Rest and Relaxation / Ottessa Moshfegh
Toronto Reborn / Ken Greenberg
* The Orphan Master's Son / Adam Johnson
* A Paradise Built in Hell / Rebecca Solnit
Machines Like Me / Ian McEwan
** The Places In Between / Rory Stewart
Original Prin / Randy Boyagoda
* Beirut Hellfire Society / Rawi Hage
* Deep River Night / Patrick Lane
Who the Hell is Jane Jacobs / Deborah Talbot
Woolgathering / Patti Smith
* Say Nothing : a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland / Patrick Radden Keefe
Less / Andrew Sean Greer
Eileen / Ottessa Moshfegh
Application for Release from the Dream / Tony Hoagland
My Life / Anton Chekhov
* From the Fifteenth District / Mavis Gallant
Canadians Abroad (from Home Truths) / Mavis Gallant
* Lands of Lost Borders
Out of Bounds on the Silk Road / Kate Harris
Sing, Unburied, Sing / Jesmyn Ward
Where the Line Bleeds / Jesmyn Ward
Ties / Domenico Starnone
Urban Nation, Why We Need to Give Power Back to Cities to Make Canada Strong / Alan Broadbent
Washington Black / Esi Edugyan
DeNiro's Game / Rawi Hage
* Fifteen Dogs : An Apologue / André Alexis
Trick / Domenico Starnone
Precious Cargo / Craig Davidson
The Saturday Night Ghost Club / Craig Davidson
French Exit / Patrick deWitt

2018
Son of a Trickster / Eden Robinson
Traplines / Eden Robinson
Milkman / Anna Burns
Dubliners / James Joyce
Something for Everyone / Lisa Moore
I've Been Meaning To Tell You / David Chariandy
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know / Colm Tóibín
Women Talking : A Novel / Miriam Toews
The Sunset Limited / Cormac McCarthy
Birds of America : Stories / Lorrie Moore
Calypso / David Sedaris
A Bend in the River / V.S. Naipaul
Heart Berries : A Memoir / Terese Marie Mailhot
**The Story of Lucy Gault / William Trevor
Foe / Iain Reid
A Bit on the Side / William Trevor
*Warlight / Michael Ondaatje
E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island / Robert Amos
*Just Let Me Look at You : On Fatherhood / Bill Gaston
Us Vs Them — The Failure of Globalism / Ian Bremmer
*Brother / David Chariandy
Walking in the City With Jane: a Story of Jane Jacobs / Susan Hughes
*Playthings / Alex Pheby
***The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy
Testimony / Robbie Robertson
Ted Harrison Collected / Robert Budd
At Swim-Two-Brids / Flann O'Brien
No Laughing Matter — The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien / Anthony Cronin
The Third Policeman / Flann O'Brien
Cities and the Wealth of Nations, Principles of Economic Life / Jane Jacobs
2017
Cataract City / Craig Davidson
Dark Age Ahead / Jane Jacobs
The Mother of All Questions / Rebecca Solnit
Martin John / Anakana Schofield
A Mariner's Guide to Self-Sabotage / Bill Gaston
Manhattan Beach / Jennifer Egan
Nutshell / Ian McEwan
Old Man, Old Dog / Tim Lander
Dead as Doornails / Anthony Cronin
Shanghai Grand / Taras Grescoe
Maximum Canada / Doug Saunders
Smile / Roddy Doyle
Daddy Lenin and Other Stories / Guy Vanderhaeghe
*His Bloody Project / Graeme Macrae Burnet
Through the Children's Gate / Adam Gopnik
*The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead
*Days Without End / Sebastian Barry
Canadian Cities and Sovereignty, The Lost Massey Lectures / Jane Jacobs
The Look of Architecture / Witold Rybczynski
Smith and Other Events / Paul St. Pierre
Not My Father's Son / Alan Cumming
The Nature of Economies / Jane Jacobs
Hillbilly Elegy / J.D. Vance
Paula Spencer / Roddy Doyle
The Woman Who Walked into Doors / Roddy Doyle
The New Urban Crisis / Richard Florida
Urban Acupuncture / Jaime Lerner
The Actual / Saul Bellow
*Lincoln in the Bardo / George Saunders
Distilled — A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball, and Philanthropy / Charles Bronfman with Howard Green
*The Sympathizer / Viet Thanh Nguyen
Passion / Alice Monro
The Lost Daughter / Elena Ferrante
*Frantumaglia / A Writer's Journey — Elena Ferrante
Eyes on the Street — The Life of Jane Jacobs / Robert Kanigel
All That Man Is / David Szalay
*Here I Am / Jonathan Safran Foer
2016
Becoming Jane Jacobs / Peter L. Laurence
Swing Time / Zadie Smith
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce
Re Joyce / Anthony Burgess
Ulysses / James Joyce
The Lesser Bohemians / Eimear McBride
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing / Eimear McBride
Two More Pints / Roddy Doyle
The Orchard Keeper / Cormac McCarthy
Everything is Illuminated / Jonathan Safran Foer
The Embassy of Cambodia / Zadie Smith
About a Boy / Nick Hornby
More Baths Less Talking / Nick Hornby
Fever Pitch / Nick Hornby
The Waves / Virginia Woolf
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close / Jonathan Safran Foer
The Wife / Anton Chekhov
Keynes Hayek — The Clash that Defined Modern Economics / Nicholas Wapshott
Where We Want to Live — Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities / Ryan Gravel
All the Light We Cannot See / Anthony Doerr
M Train — Patti Smith
A Thousand Farewells — A Reporter's Journey from Refuge Camp to the Arab Spring / Nahlah Ayed
The Brothers Karamazov — Book 1 / Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mountain City Girls — The McGarrigle Family Album / Anna and Jane McGarrigle
Sixty — A Diary of My Sixty-First Year / Ian Brown
The Nature of Economies / Jane Jacobs
The Dying Animal / Philip Roth
History's People — Personalities and the Past / Margaret MacMilllan
In Persuasion Nation / George Saunders
The Faraway Nearby / Rebecca Solnit

2015
Congratulations, by the Way — Some Thoughts on Kindness / George Saunders
Walking to Hollywood — Memories of Before the Fall / Will Self
The Flâneur — A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris / Edmund White
Death Without Company — A Walt Longmire Mystery / Craig Johnson
Thirteen Ways of Looking / Colum McCann
Crash / JG Ballard
Empire of the Sun / JG Ballard
Millennium People / JG Ballard
Cities and the Wealth of Nations — Principles of Economic Life / Jane Jacobs
The Story of the Lost Child / Elena Ferrante
The Days of Abandonment / Elena Ferrante
The Green Road / Anne Enright
Troubling Love / Elena Ferrante
The Economy of Cities / Jane Jacobs
Genius of Common Sense — Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Glenna Lang and Marjory Wunsch
Systems of Survival — A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics / Jane Jabobs
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay / Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name / Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend / Elena Ferrante
Amnesia / Peter Carey
All My Puny Sorrows / Miriam Toews
Remainder / Tom McCarthy
Wanderlust — A History of Walking / Rebecca Solnit
C / Tom McCarthy
Story of the Eye / Georges Bataille
Nora Webster / Colm Tóibín
Washita / Patrick Lane
The Children Act / Ian McEwan
Goya / Robert Hughes
Soccernomics — Why England loses, why Spain Germany and Brazil win and why the US, Japan and even Iraq are destined to become the kings of the world's most popular sport / Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
Possibilities / Herbie Hancock
Invisible Cities / Italo Calvino

2014

The Zone of Interest / Martin Amis

I Sailed With Magellan / Stuart Dybek

Fire in the Hole / Elmore Leonard

Lionel Asbo — State of England / Martin Amis

Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse / Paul St. Pierre

Degrees of Nakedness / Lisa Moore

Traveling Sprinkler / Nicholson Baker

The Sea / John Banville

Open / Lisa Moore

The Myth of the Muslim Tide — Do Immigrants Threaten the West? / Doug Saunders

The Human Stain / Philip Roth

Joshua Then And Now / Mordecai Richler

Walkable City — How Downtown Can Save America. One Step at a Time / Jeff Speck

The War That Ended Peace — The Road to 1914 / Margaret MacMillan

Sweet Tooth / Ian McEwan

Remembrance / Alistair MacLeod

The Testament of Mary / Colm Tóibín

Dear Life / Alice Munro

Happy City — Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design / Charles Montgomery

The Book of Evidence / John Banville

The Guts / Roddy Doyle

The Orenda / Joseph Boyden

City Primeval / Elmore Leonard

Extraordinary / David Gilmour

Raylan / Elmore Leonard

Archive 2013

Mount Pleasant / Don Gillmor

True History of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey

The Moonshine War / Elmore Leonard

Wrong About Japan — A Father's Journey With His Son / Peter Carey

Experience — A Memoir / Martin Amis

Caught / Lisa Moore

TransAtlantic / Colum McCann

Two Pints / Roddy Doyle

The Power Broker — Robert Moses and the Fall of New York / Robert A. Caro

Maus — A Survivor's Tale / Art Spiegelman

The Art of the Impossible — Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power 1972 - 1975 / Geoff Meggs & Rod Mickleburgh

Tenth of December: Stories / George Saunders

Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! / Art Spieglelman

In The Shadow of No Towers / Art Spieglelman

Things I Didn't Know — A Memoir / Robert Hughes

Barcelona / Robert Hughes

NW / Zadie Smith

Out of the Blue / Jan Wong

The World / Bill Gaston

Pinboy — A Memoir / George Bowering

Cuba Libre / Elmore Leonard

True North — A Life in the Music Business / Bernie Finkelstein

The Secret Scripture / Sebastian Barry

Mortality / Christopher Hitchens

Thoughts on Building Strong Towns, Volume 1 / Charles L Marohn Jr

Dance on the Earth — A Memoir / Margaret Laurence

A Jest of God / Margaret Laurence

Ablutions — Notes for a Novel / Patrick DeWitt

Me Talk Pretty One Day / David Sedaris

Barcelona — The Great Enchantress / Robert Hughes

The Deportees / Roddy Doyle

Paula Spencer / Roddy Doyle

Who Killed Mom? — A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality and Very Tacky Candles / Steve Burgess

Life of Pi / Yann Martel

Tinkers / Paul Harding

Outer Dark / Cormac McCarthy

Bonk — The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex / Mary Roach

Straphanger — Saving Our Cities and Ourselves From the Automobile / Taras Grescoe

The Secret Knowledge — On the Dismantling of American Culture / David Mamet

The Great Reset — How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosterity / Richard Florida

The Stone Angel / Margaret Laurence

Triumph of the City — How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier / Edward Glaeser

A Bird in the House / Margaret Laurence

The Life of Margaret Laurence / James King

A Long Long Way / Sebastian Barry

Running in the Family / Michael Ondaatje

Summertime / J.M. Coetzee

Annie Dunne / Sebastian Barry

Night Train / Martin Amis

An Emergency in Slow Motion — The Inner Life of Diane Arbus / William Todd Schultz

Diane Arbus: A Biography / Patricia Bosworth

February / Lisa Moore

A Visit From the Goon Squad / Jennifer Egan

Vox / Nicholson Baker

At The World's End — Curt Lang's Vancouver 1931 - 1998 / Claudia Cornwall

Mothers and Sons / Colm Tóibín

The Perfect Order of Things / David Gilmour

Bad Animals — A Father's Accidental Education in Autism / Joel Yanofsky

Sparrow Nights / David Gilmour

The Battle for Gotham — New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs / Roberta Brandes Gratz

The Empty Family / Colm Tóibín

Life & Times of Michael K / J.M. Coetzee

On Canaan's Side / Sebastian Barry

The Pregnant Widow / Martin Amis

Life / Keith Richards

Half Blood Blues / Esi Edugyan

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts — Close Encounters With Addiction / Gabor Maté

A Good Man / Guy Vanderhaeghe

House of Holes — A Book of Raunch / Nicholson Baker

Let the Great World Spin / Colum McCann

The Cat's Table / Michael Ondaatje

The Sense of an Ending / Julian Barnes

Disgrace / J.M. Coetzee

The Gathering / Anne Enright

Pigeon English / Stephen Kelman

The Forgotten Waltz / Anne Enright

The Blue Light Project / Timothy Taylor

Snowdrops / A.D. Miller

Far to Go / Alison Pick

The Sisters Brothers / Patrick DeWitt

The Comfort of Strangers / Ian McEwan

Maxwell Bates: Canada's Premier Expressionist of the 20th Century — His Art, Life and Prisoner of War Notebook / Nancy Townshend

Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter / Antonia Fraser

The Dead Republic — Book 3, The Last Roundup Trilogy / Roddy Doyle

Oh, Play That Thing — Book 2, The Last Roundup Trilogy / Roddy Doyle

Walking Home — The Life and Lessons of a City Builder / Ken Greenberg

Nemesis / Philip Roth

Last Words / George Carlin

Under an Afghan Sky — A Memoir of Captivity / Mellissa Fung

Black Dogs / Ian McEwan

A Star Called Henry — Book 1, The Last Roundup Trilogy / Roddy Doyle

God is Not Great — How Religion Poisons Everything / Christopher Hitchins

Makeshift Metropolis / Witold Rybczynski

Bullfighting / Roddy Doyle

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha / Roddy Doyle

All the Devils Are Here — The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis / Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera

A Freewheelin' Time — A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties / Suze Rotolo

Herzog / Saul Bellow

The Rational Optimist — How Prosperity Evolves / Matt Ridley

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal / Ben Mezrich

The Sentimentalists / Johanna Skibsrud

Chronicles Volume 1 / Bob Dylan

Doris McCarthy — My Life / Doris McCarthy with Charis Wahl

Arrival City — The Final Migration and Our Next World / Doug Saunders

St. Urbain's Horseman / Mordecai Richler

Belling the Cat — Essays Reports and Opinions / Mordecai Richler

Mordecai & Me / Joel Yanovski

Why Orwell Matters / Christopher Hitchens

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 / Paul Krugman

Mordecai — The Life and Times / Charles Foran

The Film Club / David Gilmour

A Perfect Night to go to China / David Gilmour

On Songwriting / Bob Snider

Portnoy's Complaint / Philip Roth

Solar / Ian McEwan

Time's Arrow / Martin Amis

Urban Nation: Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong / Alan Broadbent

The Golden Mean / Annabel Lyon

Money — A Suicide Note / Martin Amis

Economics For Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism / Jim Stanford

Hitch 22 / Christopher Hitchens

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept / Elizabeth Smart

Fordlandia — The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City / Greg Grandin

Deception / Philip Roth

When She Was Good / Philip Roth

The Story of the Night / Colm Tóibín

There is a Season / Patrick Lane

Marshall McLuhan / Douglas Coupland

Just Kids / Patti Smith

Brooklyn / Colm Tóibín

Picasso and Dora / James Lord

The Nature of Economies / Jane Jabobs

Homage to Barcelona / Colm Tóibín

Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell

Wrestling With Moses : How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City / Anthony Flint

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