A Few Favorites of 2014

Here is a Year End list of favorite music, movies and books. I generally don’t read books the same year they are published, partly because I borrow from libraries more than I buy, and partly because I just tend to be behind, so only “The String Diaries” and “The Winter People” are actually 2014 titles. Happy Holidays!

Favorite albums:

Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Dereconstructed (review)
Rachel Thomasin – Microforms
The Drums – Encyclopedia
Tom Vek – Luck
The Pixies – Indie Cindy
The Raveonettes – Pe’ahi (review)
The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Chrissie Hynde – Stockholm

Favorite movies:

“Frank” (review)
“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”
“Housebound” (review)
“Maleficent”
“Interstellar”
“The Monuments Men”
“Under The Skin”
“Song of The Sea”*
“Only Lovers Left Alive”*
*Still need to see these but pretty sure they’d be on here.

Favorite books:

“Affinity” – Sarah Waters
“Help For The Haunted” – John Searles (review)
This one book I can’t find again, for the life of me. Anyone know it?**
“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” – Ransom Riggs
“Skinwalkers” – Tony Hillerman
“The String Diaries” – Stephen Lloyd Jones

**FOUND IT: “The Winter People” – Jennifer McMahon