2008 in lists

A summary of the year in lists of notable experiences/events/things: 

Books – Fiction

– The Reader (Berhnard Schlink)
– The Book of Other People (edited by Zadie Smith)
– Sea of Poppies (Amitav Ghosh)
– The Enchantress of Florence (Salman Rushdie)
– The White Tiger (Arvinda Adiga)
– Thank you, Jeeves (P.G.Wodehouse)
– The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
– Buddha – part 1 (Osamu Tezuka)

Books – Non-fiction

– The shadow of the sun (Richard Kapuscinski)
– The Halo effect (Phil Rosenzweig)
– Fixing Climate (Wallace Broecker and Robert Kunzig)
– Cultural Amnesia (Clive James)
– A Little History of the World (E.H.Gombrich)
– Antiquity (Norman Cantor)
– Essays in Love (Alain De Botton)
– Edward Hopper (Lloyd Goodrich)

Movies

– The Unbearable Lightness of Being
– Three Colours – White, Blue, Red
– The Prestige
– Climates
– Anupama
– Hazaaron khwaishen aisi
– The lives of others
– Vicky, Christina, Barcelona
– The Darjeeling Limited
– My Blueberry nights
– Casablanca
– Citizen Kane
– The motorcycle diaries
– Hero
– The Tin Drum
– The Seventh Seal
– Wall.E
– Paris je t’aime
– Y Tu Mama tambien
– Cache
– Shadow of a Doubt
– A very long engagement
– Blade Runner

Documentaries

– An Inconvenient Truth
– The Bible’s buried secrets

Music discoveries

– Rupa and the April fishes
– Yann Tiersen
– Amy Winehouse

Electronic stuff

– Canon EOS 40D
– iPod Nano
– Flip Video

Events

– SAPLings (Pictures)
– The Frankfurt book fair (Pictures)
– Walk the world (Pictures)
– Euro 08 (Pictures)

Cities

– Orange, France
– Castellon de la Plana, Spain
– Cologne, Germany
– Brussels, Belgium (Travel Diary)
– Antwerp, Belgium
– Leuven, Belgium
– Gent,  Belgium (Travel Diary)
– Hamm, Germany (Travel Diary)
– Berlin, Germany (Pictures)
– Paris, France (Travellogue)
– New York, U.S. (Pictures)