• Anna Karenina
• Catcher in the Rye
• Emily Dickinson books
• Ernest Hemingway books
• The Fountainhead
• Howl
• Jack Karouac

• Come on Let's Play - ERJ
• Heart's on Fire - Passenger
• Love they Say - Tegan and Sarah
• More - Gold
• Oh my love - Layla

Recommended to Me:

• Anamaniacs (animated show) and soundtracks, especially Nations of the World
• Grateful Dead band
• Phish band
• Strahan artist

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - Pride and Prejudice

"The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?" - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

"The book which the reader has now before his eyes is...the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. Star...

• Rainforest Cafe
• The Olive Garden
• New York New York Greek Restaurant

• Cinderella (2015)
• Clueless
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Happy Gilmore
• Leap Year
• Little Women (2019)
• Northanger Abbey (2007)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Pretty in Pink
• Pride and Prejudice (2005; for BBC version, see "Favourite TV Miniseries")
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Spaceballs
• Stardust (2007)
• Titanic
• Win a Date with Tad Hamilton

Franchises (In order of Favourites):

• The Lord of the Rings

• sewing
• chess
• singing

"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." - Shakespeare

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"I believe that life is given us so we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence." - Helen Keller

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." - Erasmus.

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." - Henry David Thoreau.

"Try again, fail again. Fail better." - S...

• Adventures of Serena BErg
• Adventures with Jamie Watson and Sherlock Holmes
• Anne with an E
• Autobiography of Jane Eyre (Vancouver!)
• Bright Summer Night
• Call Me Katie
• Classic Alice
• East and West
• The Emma Agenda
• Frankenstein MD
• Green Gables Fables
• Grimm Reflections
• I Didn't Write This
• In Earnest
• The Jane Games
• Kissing in the Rain
• A Midsemester Night's Dream
• The Misselthwaite Archives (The Secret Garden)
• The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy

• Backgammon
• Loaded Questions

Recommended by Kevin T. Porter:

• Western egg roles
• Skillet queso
• Endless chips
• Cajun chicken pasta

• Popcorn and peanut M&Ms mix
• Red Velvet Pancakes
• Buddha Blend (David's Tea)
• Silver Moon (David's Tea)

Watched in their Entirety

• The 100
• Blue Water High
• Boy Meets World
• Breaking Bad
• Brothers and Sisters
• Bunheads
• Community
• Cranford
• Dance Academy
• Dash and Lily
• Dawson's Creek
• Death Note
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• Downton Abbey
• Fawlty Towers
• The Fosters
• Freaks and Geeks
• Friday Night Lights
• Friends
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

• astronomy: star-gazing
• art: drawing/painting
• music: guitar/violin/cello/ukulele
• sewing my own clothes and costumes
• dancing: ballet/contemporary
• surfing
• archery
• long sword fighting (Academie Duello)
• parkour

• Tea
• Iced Tea
• Lemonade
• Orange juice (no pulp)
• Water
• A&W Root Beer
• Shirley Temple
• Virgin Strawberry Daiquiri

"The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made." - Psalm 145:8-9

♪ "Praise the LORD, O my soul, praise the LORD" ♪ - Psalm 104:1; 104:35; 146:1

"But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever." - Psalm 52:8

• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
• A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
• A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

• play cards and other board games
• read and finish more novels
• go on hikes
• skiing/snowboarding
• spent time with my extended family, especially my cousins

• ballroom dancing
• sailing
• violin
• guitar
• knitting
• knot-tying
• to speak more than one language fluently
• to cook almost as well as my Oma
• singing lessons

• 12 Angry Men
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
• Airplane
• Alien
• Annie Hall
• Apocalypse Now
• Before Sunset
• Bladerunner
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Chinatown
• Citizen Kane
• Clue
• Cool as Ice
• Crash
• Dead Poet Society (Captain, my Captain; Carpe Diem)
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
• Dances with Wolves ✔
• Dr. Strangelove
• Edward Scissorhands

• Crazy Rich Asians
• The Edge of Seventeen
• Ever After
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Mirror Mirror
• Tall Girl

• Black Orchid

Recommended by Jason Mantzoukas:

• Bryan Cavon's Saga and Papergirls
• Rick Rommender's Black Science, Deadly Class, 7 to Eternity
• Jason Aaron
• Power Man and Iron Fist, Marvel

• All Fantasy Everything
• All Songs Considered
• Crime Town
• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
• Harry Potter series narrated by Jim Dale
• Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
• How to do Everything
• Laugh out loud from CBC Radio
• Learn French by Podcast
• Learn French with Daily Podcasts
• Radio Lab
• Reply All
• Serial
• Science VS
• Stuff Mom Never Told You
• Stuff You Missed in History Class
• Stuff You Should Know ✔
• This Is Why You're Single (March 10, 2016, with Josh Reuben, ATX festival)

Gamecube:

• Brothers: A Tale of 2 Sons
• Icohh /7 Shadow of the Colossus
• House of Anubis
• Lightning Point / Alien Surf Girls

• Anne of Green Gables
• Anne with an E
• Bunheads pilot w/o Kelly Bishop
• Broadchurch (watch with subtitles)
• Daredevil
• Due South
• Firefly
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
• Girl Meets World
• Indian Summers
• Jane Eyre 2006 mini-series (directed by Susanna White)
• The Mandalorian
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• North Shore Rescue
• The Office ✓
• One-Punch Man
• Parenthood

• Walk behind a waterfall ✔
• Go on a hot air balloon ride
• Go to Niagara Falls ✔
• Visit West Edmonton Mall
• Surf in Australia (or maybe Tofino or somewhere else will do) ✔
• Travel to Egypt
• Ride a camel
• Ride an elephant
• Try curling
• Travel to France
• Go to New York and see the Statue of Liberty and Empire States Building
• Travel to the Netherlands
• Roadtrip across Canada
• Go on a Harry Potter tour in England
• Go to Boston in the Fall
• Go on an African safari
• Try fencing
• See the Northern Lights ✔
• Travel to Greece

• Solar-powered dancing flower for car dashboard ✔
• Mini Portable alarm clock
• Wellies ✔
• Pair of red shoes

• road trips
• hiking
• canoeing/kayaking
• paddle boarding
• chick flick/Disney/Lost marathon
• biking
• card games and board games
• picnics
• family reunions
• cooking/sewing lessons
• tea tasting/sipping/sampling day
• sailing

From My Shelf:

• Redeeming Love
• Emperor: The Field of Swords
• The Other Wind
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Howl
• Suite Francaise ✔
• Blue Like Jazz ✔
• Black Beauty
• The Black Stallion
• Artemis Fowl
• The Diary of Anne Frank ✔
• Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles ✔
• The Odyssey
• The Illiad
• 2nd Century of Detective Stories
• Mere Christianty by C. S. Lewis

Series:

• Wheel of Time

• being a morning person
• patience
• orientation and directions
• eating healthy
• understanding Shakespeare

• Songs to Buy
• Wishlist ✔
• Favourite Food
• For the Nights I Can't Sleep (Thoughts)
• Things that Make Me ___
• Things I Don't Want to Be (Career-wise)
• Favourite Memories
• Fantastical Moments
• Favourite Words
• Books to Read ✔
• Favourite Books
• Favourite Movies ✔
• Favourite Songs
• Favourite Flowers
• Favourite Board Games
• Favourite Hobbies
• Things that Annoy Me
• Places I'd Like to Go
• Places I'd Like to Live
• Things that Freak Me Out
• Things I'd Like to be Better At ✔

Watching:

• The Chosen
• Derry Girls
• Everwood

Rewatching: N/A

Waiting for the next season/series:

• The Bodyguard
• Bridgerton
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Happy Valley
• Jack Ryan
• The Night Manager
• Stranger Things

Shows I watched a lot of and will probably get back to eventually:

• Atypical
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
• Northern Exposure