I’m not quite finished with the December reading\/watching recap, but since publishing “best of” lists is the thing to do at the end of the year, I figured I could go ahead and do that. And by “best of 2006” I mean “best that I saw or read in 2006,” because, as usual, I was not proactive enough at theatres and new release bookshelves to give any sort of a best movies or books released in 2006 list.<\/p>\n
Top Ten Films I Watched in 2006<\/b> (none of the lists are in any particular order…most are chronological of when I saw them, because that’s the order of the records I started from)<\/p>\n Honorable Mentions<\/b><\/p>\n Ten Films You Probably Haven’t Seen But Ought To<\/b><\/p>\n Some Films I Really Had Gotten to St. Louis Before I Had to Go Back to Waco<\/b>:<\/p>\n <\/strong>\n<\/ul>\n Top Ten Books I Read This Year<\/b><\/p>\n Top Five TV Shows<\/b> (network only; I can’t keep track of cable)<\/p>\n Top Five Guilty Pleasure TV Shows<\/b> (by this I mean either that they aren’t really GOOD, but I like them, or merely that I enjoy them, but not in a substantial, fannish way)<\/p>\n On the subject of TV shows, 24<\/i><\/a> will probably be joining the first set of TV shows this spring, and American Idol<\/i><\/a> will certainly be joining the “guilty pleasure” set in LIKE TWO WEEKS! 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The list of books follows, along with the page number count for each one (taken from the Modern Library paperbacks, accounting for the notes and commentary, so the number given is the text itself\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books and Reading"","block_context":{"text":"Books and Reading","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/vacation\/","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":4},"title":"Vacation","author":"Jandy","date":"June 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I love being on vacation. I want to do it all the time. But then I might get bored of it. Good drive down to Florida this year. We did a couple of hours Friday night after I got off work, and then the rest on Saturday. 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