Comments on: Nerdies for Favorite Things of 2009

By: le0pard13

le0pard13 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:55:32 +0000

This was a fantastic list, PCN. The reason I love reading your blog is because of the intelligence, wit, and passion you bring to whatever you choose to write about, Elyse. It's a rare combination, which makes you an uncommon person in my book. If this post is the last for the 2009 year, it is exemplary... and fun. And since you asked, I placed my favorite things in today's post. And a couple of your things made it in there. Happy New Year, Elyse.

By: sophie littlefield

sophie littlefield — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:44:58 +0000

Oh PCN, how happy am I to have appeared on this list!!! So honored…I will limit myself to favorites of the non-mystery/crime sort:

favorite women’s-fiction author I hadn’t read until ’09 – Marisa do los Santos

favorite web site I hadn’t visited – hulu (without which i would watch absolutely no tv at all)

favorite cult-like program under whose spell i fell – 100 Pushups

favorite libation I never drank until now – Laphroaig

favorite new (very new, and sparsely practiced) habit – think snarky thoughts, but not saying them

and yeah, how happy am i that in ’10 I get to DRIVE to bouchercon, hopefully with a carful of friends and eighty pairs of shoes?!

By: Birte

Birte — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:02:33 +0000

Thank you for that wonderful list and all the best for the New Year.

I’ve read all of Winspear’s Maisi Dobbs novels this year and enjoyed them tremendously.

Fattest Book was Middlemarch by George Eliot though it took me more than 3 days to read it.

Favourite quote from a movie was from “Les Invasion des Barbares”: “I am sensitive myself and besides highly intelligent.”

Favourite quote from a book was from Alan Becket’s “The Uncommon Reader”: “O get on with it!” (The queen’s comment on Henry James.)

All time favourite quote by Tom Lehrer:
“It is people like this who make you realise how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought for example that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:22:38 +0000

My shins throbbed for days! My teeth hurt, too, from my gritting them while Brwna was, ah, acquiring his weapon of choice.

POINT! I love Dug!

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:20:21 +0000

I still haven’t experienced Bouchercon yet but look forward to it in 2010!

I’ve never read Craig Johnson but based on the beauty of that line, I’ll have to look into his work.

Did I ever tell you how impressed I am you’ve been without a TV for over a year?

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:17:29 +0000

Oh, you have more perseverance than I. I stopped watching Lost after season 4 because I lost all patience and didn't want to hurt my poor TV anymore (I threw a few things out of frustration, too).

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:26:03 +0000

Jen – Great quote from ANOTHER MAN’S MOCCASINS! (Love Craig Johnson) Every time I come across a great quote in a book, I think I’ll remember it. But, of course, I never remember it precisely or where to find it. I’m thinking I should keep some small post-its close by to mark the pages, yeah? Although, with some authors, that’ll make the novel look like a college textbook!

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:11:08 +0000

We were intrigued by BEAT THE REAPER once we saw the Davis-Kidd employee’s recommendation which stated something like, it was so good, it made her shins hurt. So, with an endorsement like that (SQUIRREL!)……and reading the first few sentences of the book, we had to buy it! Great purchase. (And, yes, our shins did indeed hurt.)

Didn’t see many movies this year, but guess which one you mentioned that I absolutely adored? ;-p

By: Jen Forbus

Jen Forbus — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:07:46 +0000

Oh, definitely Bouchercon…it wasn’t Bouchercon’s first Bouchercon, but it was MY first Bouchercon and it was the BEST!!

Best debut I’m giving nods to Brad Parks on.

TV I’ve been without for over a year, so I can’t comment on that front. I watch shows on DVD but they are ones I already know I like from before.

I’m with you on Chet. Love him, love him, love him. And Stella – it’s the 45 and older trend in books, too! 😉

Also loving the women’s 45 and older crowd shining on the big screen.

My favorite line didn’t actually come from 2009, but I read it for the first time in 2009. It’s “After a full sweep of the dance floor, I bent down to kiss the U-shaped scar at her hairline and attempted to keep time to the counting of my blessings.” – ANOTHER MAN’S MOCCASINS (Craig Johnson)

Best audio book reading goes to my boy, George Guidall for Johnson’s THE DARK HORSE. Anyone willing to sing “Cattle Call” gets bonus points! Of course, I still say everyone needs to start their Monday morning listening to him sing “Ruby” as Walt Longmire. These are times I almost had to pull off the road I was laughing so hard!

For me, 2009 was simply the best year of the decade. Looking forward to 2010 being even better!

By: Shell Sherree

Shell Sherree — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:39:28 +0000

Glee was one of my favourite new things this year ~ and I'm looking forward to some of your shows that haven't started here yet, like Cougar Town. Another favourite thing was finding out that I'll be finally put out of my Lost misery soon! For the past three seasons, I've wanted to smack it out of frustration, but I've had to keep watching it... {and I don't smack things, so you can see what it's driven me to.}