084. TEN movies/books you'd recommend and why.

1. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The book. The movie was horrible. I like a love story that's upfront about what love is.

2. Maria Full of Grace, directed by Joshua Marston. Because I'm not a person to trust with recommendations, and want everyone to see what I see on a weekly basis.

3. The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai. It's well written look at cultures meeting, and at how this country affects people in places no one bothers to think about.

4. See Sally Kick Ass, by Fred Vogt. I'm not usually one for instructional self-defense books. I think every woman should learn basic self-defense, but should be taught in an actual classroom, with a trained instructor. But this is a book I tend to give out when I have to go talk at schools, because it includes advice for girls about all kinds of self-defense, not just the physical stuff.

5. Time Bandits, directed by Terry Gilliam. It's funny?

6. A Fish Called Wanda, directed by John Cleese. Same.

7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, directed by Mike Nichols. See the answer to item one.

8. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi

9. Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

10. Lipstick Jihad, by Azadeh Moaveni

I don't want to get into it. They're all just good books.