Books and Movies '2018

On movies and books ....it's been, I guess a decent 32 on movies, and a low 12 on books. That's quite obviously judged by my yardstick.

And funnily, I don't really know what my yardstick is. So much for how easily we judge :)

My List of Movies:

1. The Hours
2. Tumhari Sulu
3. Tamasha
4. Home Again
5. Revolutionary Road
6. La La Land
7. As Good As It Gets
8. Padmaavat
9. October
10. Tangled
11. Enough Said
12. Call me by your name
13. My Dinner With Andre
14. Princess Mononoke
15. Dr Morsten & Wonder Woman
16. 28 days
17. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
18. Annamayya
19. Sagara Sangamam
20. Secret Superstar
21. Karwaan
22. Mahanati
23. Tumbbad
24. Beauty and The Beast
25. Before We Go
26. Bucket List
27. Bohemian Rhapsody
28. Dhadak
29. Grandma
30. The Perfect Match
31. Nothing to Hide
32. Roma

I'm kind of super picky about my movies ( read as slow, meaningful, romantic, thought provoking.......and with a super low threshold of violence), so my list is kind of skewed in the direction. And I'd find it hard to pick favourites, as I'm typically watching only what I think I'll like, and even walking out of theatres half way through if I don't like :)

Yet, if I had to pick top favourites, it would be La La Land, Mahanati, Tumbbad, Bohemian Rhapsody and Nothing to Hide.

My list of Books:

1. Falling in love again - Ruskin Bond
2. The Vine of Desire - Chitra Divakaruni
3. Lost in Time - Namita Gokhale
4. Maharani - Ruskin Bond
5. Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. Original Wisdom - Robert Wolff
7. I'm Ok - You're OK - Harris
8. For one more day - Mitch Album
9. Palace of Illusions - Chitra Divakaruni
10. Men are from Mars Women are from Venus - A reread
11. Tao of leadership - John Heider
12. How Proust can change your life - Alain De Botton

While the list is short, I've completely loved each of those reads.

Ruskin Bond and Chitra Divakaruni are already favourites, so no surprise there. Loved 'Lost in time' by Namita Gokhle, and high impact was 'Flow' by Mihaly C, which I hope to read again some day and How Proust can change your life.

A consolation on the books in terms of number, is that it didn't mean I did only this much reading. I did tons more reading for my exams :)

I'm taking this as opportunity to create my yardstick. I think for this year I'd like to touch 50 on movies and 25 on books. So next time no more casual judgement on self :)