Books I'm re-reading Elizabeth Taylor; A Game of Hide and Seek, The Soul of Kindness and now Angel. Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope. I've been halfway through Daniel Deronda since August 2007. Film Mamma Mia! – fantastic. I saw two documentaries about terrible obsessives: Man on Wire, and The Artist and the Sudanese Twins at the Edinburgh Film Festival. In my TV-less house, there's currently a Kieslowski retrospective. Television I threw my television out! Now I'm box-set woman. I've run the White House for two terms in The West Wing, failed to clean up Baltimore in The Wire and augmented my swearing with Deadwood. Music Not one opera this year! I've had a 16-year-old niece staying, so lots of Duffy, Bright Eyes, Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper and Mason Jennings. My cool nephew Mark gave me The New Adventures of Jassi...
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