'25 books and movies

12.31.25

i did not enjoy all of these equally but i enjoyed most of them very much. next year i'd like to read at least as many books as i watch movies and i'd like to watch at least 52 movies

books: tom wolfe - electric kool aid acid test
rachael kushner - creation lake
karl ove knausgaard - morning star
karl ove - wolves of eternity
karl ove - the third realm
denis johnson - shoppers
blind man's bluff: the untold story of american submarine espionage
sophie kemp - paradise logic
slavoj zizek - against progress
annie dillard - pilgrim at tinker creek
roberto bolaño - 2066
patricia lockwood - no one is talking about this
denis johnson - train dreams
ian mcguire - the north water
thomas pynchon - gravity's rainbow
vi khi nao - fish in exile
john steinbeck - the pearl
virginia woolf - to the lighthouse
kaveh akbar - martyr
buchi emecheta - double yoke
jordan castro - muscle man
patricia lockwood - will there ever be another you
john dunne - vegas


movies: collateral (at the studio)
anora (at home)
the fig of the sacred tree (film forum)
nosferatu (bam)
continents are the reals oceans (film forum)
blue velvet (at home)
pilgrim, farewell (film forum)
dying (film forum)
paris texas (the roxy)
a woman is a woman (film forum)
soundtrack to a coup d'etat (film forum)
in cold blood (film forum)
unbearable lightness of being (film forum)
an unfinished film (film forum)
1-800-on-her-own (film forum)
the sealed soil (film forum)
when fall is coming (film forum)
april (film forum)
killer of sheep (film forum)
das boot (the paris)
love (film forum)
dog day afternoon (film forum)
apocalypse now (film forum)
hearts of darkness (film forum)
2000 meters to adriivka (film forum)
dreams (film forum)
sex (film forum)
four nights of a dreamer (film forum)
civil war (at home)
warefare (at home)
black mass (at home)
it was just an accident (film forum)
one battle after another (bam)
train dreams (ifc)
hamnet (nitehawk)