2019.06.28
- Age 1
- “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle
- Age 2
- “Llama Llama Red Pajama” by Anna Dewdney
- Age 3
- “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak
- Age 4
- “Charlie Parker Played Be Bop” by Chris Raschka
- Age 5
- “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein
- Age 6
- “Ramona the Pest” by Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers
- Age 7
- “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson
- Age 8
- “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
- Age 9
- “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” by Judy Blume
- Age 10
- “Smile” by Raina Telgemeier
- Age 11
- “Ghost” by Jason Reynolds
- Age 12
- “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” by Mildred D. Taylor
- Age 13
- “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai
- Age 14
- “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
- Age 15
- “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas
- Age 16
- “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë
- Age 17
- “Once Upon a River” by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- Age 18
- “A Gate at the Stairs” by Lorrie Moore
- Age 19
- “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
- Age 20
- “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz
- Age 21
- “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway
- Age 22
- “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Age 23
- “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- Age 24
- “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand
- Age 25
- “I Capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith
- Age 26
- “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Age 27
- “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey
- Age 28
- “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde
- Age 29
- “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan
- Age 30
- “The Joy of Sex” by Alex Comfort
- Age 31
- “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck
- Age 32
- “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
- Age 33
- “Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story” by Paul Monette
- Age 34
- “Beloved” by Toni Morrison
- Age 35
- “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- Age 36
- “Life Among the Savages” by Shirley Jackson
- Age 37
- “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan
- Age 38
- “The Sportswriter” Richard Ford
- Age 39
- “What Alice Forgot” by Liane Moriarty
- Age 40
- “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Age 41
- “Rabbit, Run” by John Updike
- Age 42
- “The Woman Upstairs” by Claire Messud
- Age 43
- “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
- Age 44
- “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt
- Age 45
- “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” by Maria Semple
- Age 46
- “Salvage the Bones” by Jesmyn Ward
- Age 47
- “Stretching” by Bob Anderson
- Age 48
- “Bossypants” by Tina Fey
- Age 49
- “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau
- Age 50
- “Fifty Shades of Grey” by EL James
- Age 51
- “Who Do You Think You Are?” by Alice Munro
- Age 52
- “Men Without Women” by Haruki Murakami
- Age 53
- “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman
- Age 54
- “The Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker
- Age 55
- “Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth Strout
- Age 56
- “When Things Fall Apart” by Pema Chödrön
- Age 57
- “Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Age 58
- “The Plague of Doves” by Louise Erdrich
- Age 59
- “Dynamic Aging” by Katy Bowman
- Age 60
- “The Five Years Before You Retire” by Emily Guy Birken
- Age 61
- “Fear of Dying” by Erica Jong
- Age 62
- “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” by Helen Simonson
- Age 63
- “Our Souls at Night” by Kent Haruf
- Age 64
- “Old in Art School” by Nell Painter
- Age 65
- “65 Things to Do When You Retire” edited by Mark Evan Chimsky
- Age 66
- The “Outlander” series by Diana Gabaldon
- Age 67
- “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes
- Age 68
- “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion
- Age 69
- “I Remember Nothing” by Nora Ephron
- Age 70
- “Master Class: Living Longer, Stronger, and Happier” by Peter Spiers
- Age 71
- “Midnight’s Children” by Salman Rushdie
- Age 72
- “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel García Márquez
- Age 73
- “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” four volumes, by Robert Caro
- Age 74
- “Paris in the Present Tense” by Mark Helprin
- Age 75
- “The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss
- Age 76
- “Women Rowing North” by Mary Pipher
- Age 77
- “Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson
- Age 78
- “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White
- Age 79
- “The Coming of Age” by Simone de Beauvoir
- Age 80
- “Coming Into Eighty: Poems” by May Sarton
- Age 81
- “Devotions” by Mary Oliver
- Age 82
- “The Summer of a Dormouse” by John Mortimer
- Age 83
- All the thrillers and mysteries
- Age 84
- “The Last Unknowns” edited by John Brockman
- Age 85
- “Ravelstein” by Saul Bellow
- Age 86
- “Old Filth” by Jane Gardam
- Age 87
- “King Lear” by William Shakespeare
- Age 88
- “Nearing Ninety: And Other Comedies of Late Life” by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Laura Gibson
- Age 89
- “A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing 90” by Donald Hall
- Age 90
- “Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God” by Joe Coomer
- Age 91
- “Selected Poems: 1988-2013” by Seamus Heaney
- Age 92
- “Nothing to be Frightened Of” by Julian Barnes
- Age 93
- “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari
- Age 94
- “This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism” by Ashton Applewhite
- Age 95
- The Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante
- Age 96
- “Somewhere Towards the End” by Diana Athill
- Age 97
- “My Own Two Feet” by Beverly Cleary
- Age 98
- “Life Is So Good” by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
- Age 99
- “Little Boy” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Age 100
- “Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author” by Herman Wouk
Live Action References for Disney's Little Mermaid:
Phew- watching the show "Abandoned", episode on Ghost Malls, starting with Randall Park mall.... sigh. (though it's like they got their a bit late after demolition was underway so not many interior shots)
and now euclid square mall, dang. though that felt a bit less vibrant even back in 1990.
weird show. skaters, store front churches, and paranormal investigators.
I knew there was a lot to respect in Sikh culture, but was unaware of their increasing presence in the trucking industry.