Thing 37: day 1

A lovely spring afternoon walk to kick off the month!

Thing 101 - Thumbelina

101. Watch all the DVDs I own but have not seen.

Thumbelina: I only own this because it came in a doublepack with The Secret of NIMH. The voice acting was pretty good - Jodi Benson (Ariel from The Little Mermaid) in the titular role, and other luminaries like Carol Channing and John Hurt and Gilbert Goddfried. And Charo. As a large-breasted frog. I don't even know. Anyway, the animation is less than stellar, with the obvious rotoscoping of Thumbelina herself standing out awkwardly against the more cartoonish characters. The story is okay, but a little confused at times, and ohhh what weird songs Barry Manilow wrote. Probably not one I'll watch again.

Thing 24: Another batch

24. Read/listen to 250 books, not counting rereads

Current Progress: 189/250 (75.6%)

Finally caught up on reviews - wrote six just now. I'm zipping through books this year for some reason, but I'm still not too hopeful of reaching 250 by December. That's fine.

179. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
180. Beginner's Luck by Laura Pedersen
181. Davi by Roy C. Booth and Brian Woods
182. Squirrel Meets Chipmunk by David Sedaris
183. Walpurgis III by Mike Resnick
184. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
185. Ruby in Smoke by Philip Pullman
186. The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark
187. America: The Book by Jon Stewart
188. Passage by Connie Willis
189. First Person Plural by Andrew W.M. Beierle