Another year of keeping track of films and books read… I suspect that I missed a few graphic novels when you count the collected editions (since I read a lot of them for review purposes in serialized formats), ah well. Definitely a big uptick on movies for 2013.

Movies:

1. Django Unchained
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action
5. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animated
6. Silver Linings Playbook
7. Amour
8. Side Effects
9. Party Girl
10. The Company You Keep
11. The Great Gatsby
12. In the House (Dans la Maison)
13. Stories We Tell
14. Star Trek Into Darkness
15. Iron Man 3
16. Mud
17. Frances Ha
18. Behind the Candelabra
19. The Painting (Le Tableau)
20. Rent a Family Inc.
21. AFI Docs Shorts Program Two: Life and Death
22. Approved for Adoption (Couleur de Peau: Miel)
23. The Bling Ring
24. Much Ado About Nothing
25. The Way, Way Back
26. The Heat
27. I’m So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros)
28. Blue Jasmine
29. The Wolverine
30. The Spectacular Now
31. Word Wars
32. Gravity
33. 12 Years a Slave
34. The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
35. Frozen
36. The Deflowering of Eva Van End (De Ontmaagding van Eva van End)
37. Our Heroes Died Tonight (Nos héros sont morts ce soir)
38. Tiny Furniture
39. Dallas Buyers Club
40. American Hustle
41. Her

Books:

1. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
3. Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan
4. Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts
5. Among Others by Jo Walton
6. Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky
7. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
8. The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher
9. The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski
10. Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover’s Courtship by Amanda Hesser
11. Redshirts by John Scalzi
12. Fair Play by Tove Jansson
13. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
14. The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin
15. The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
16. The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-mail Environments by Diane K. Kovacs
17. Men and Cartoons: Stories by Jonathan Lethem
18. Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman
19. The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
20. The Portable MLIS: Insights from the Experts edited by Ken Haycock and Brooke E. Sheldon
21. Reference and Information Services: An Introduction by Richard E. Bopp and Linda C. Smith
22. Doctor Who: A Big Hand For The Doctor by Eoin Colfer
23. Doctor Who: The Nameless City by Michael Scott
24. Doctor Who: The Spear of Destiny by Marcus Sedgwick
25. Doctor Who: The Roots of Evil by Philip Reeve
26. Doctor Who: Tip of the Tongue by Patrick Ness
27. Doctor Who: Something Borrowed by Richelle Mead
28. Doctor Who: The Ripple Effect by Malorie Blackman
29. Doctor Who: Spore by Alex Scarrow
30. Doctor Who: The Beast of Babylon by Charlie Higson
31. Doctor Who: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage by Derek Landy
32. Doctor Who: Nothing O’Clock by Neil Gaiman

Fiction Magazines, Chapbooks, and Zines:

1. Lightspeed Magazine March 2012
2. Granta 114: Aliens
3. Lightspeed Magazine April 2012
4. Lightspeed Magazine May 2012
5. Lightspeed Magazine June 2012
6. Kinfolk Vol. 3
7. Lightspeed Magazine July 2012
8. Lucky Peach Vol. 7
9. Lucky Peach Vol. 8
10. Kinfolk Vol. 9

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Yet again, I got a little obsessive and tracked the number of books and movies I’ve consumed in the past year. Why? Well, if nothing else it’s an easy way to remember what I’ve seen when asked, “What was the best book/movie you’ve seen/read this year?” Also, it amuses me. This year showed a slight increase in all categories… And now, on to 2013!

Movies:

1. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
2. The Artist
3. Albert Nobbs
4. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Animated
5. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Live Action
6. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
7. Bully
8. Mirror, Mirror
9. The Avengers
10. Headhunters
11. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
12. The Hunger Games
13. Moonrise Kingdom
14. Prometheus
15. Safety Not Guaranteed
16. Beauty is Embarrassing
17. To Rome With Love
18. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)
19. Brave
20. Magic Mike
21. The Amazing Spider-Man
22. The Queen of Versailles
23. The Dark Knight Rises
24. The Imposter
25. Cosmopolis
26. Sleepwalk With Me
27. The Master
28. Argo
29. Cloud Atlas
30. Wreck-It Ralph
31. Holy Motors
32. Skyfall
33. Hitchcock
34. Travels With My Aunt
35. Les Miserables

Books:

1. Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
2. The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
3. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
6. Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman
7. Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
8. Glasshouse by Charles Stross
9. Embassytown by China Mieville
10. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
11. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
12. Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater by Frank Bruni
13. After the Apocalypse: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
14. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
15. Welcome to Bordertown edited by Holly Black and Ellen Kushner
16. Bumbling into Body Hair: A Transsexual’s Memoir by Everett Maroon
17. Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
18. Moominpappa’s Memoirs by Tove Jansson
19. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America by Michelle Obama
20. God’s War by Kameron Hurley
21. Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson
22. Howards End by E.M. Forster
23. The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux
24. Who Is The Doctor: The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who: The New Series by Graeme Burk and Robert Smith?
25. The Ninnies by Paul Magrs
26. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
27. Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction edited by Brit Mandelo
28. All About Emily by Connie Willis
29. Hav by Jan Morris
30. A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files

Fiction Magazines, Chapbooks, and Zines:

1. James Patrick Kelly’s Strangeways #1
2. Fantasy Magazine July 2011
3. Fantasy Magazine August 2011
4. Fantasy Magazine September 2011
5. Fantasy Magazine October 2011
6. Fantasy Magazine November 2011
7. Fantasy Magazine December 2011
8. Chelsea Station Issue 1
9. Lightspeed Magazine July 2011
10. Lightspeed Magazine August 2011
11. Lightspeed Magazine September 2011
12. Lightspeed Magazine October 2011
13. Lucky Peach Issue 2
14. Lightspeed Magazine November 2011
15. Lightspeed Magazine December 2011
16. Fireside Magazine Spring 2012
17. Lightspeed Magazine January 2012
18. Lightspeed Magazine February 2012

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Once again, I went and tracked how many movies, books, and graphic novels I saw/read over the course of the year. Last year’s tally had me at at 31 movies, 21 books, 1 fiction magazine, and 124 graphic novels. This year? 31 movies, 24 books, 13 fiction magazines, and 110 graphic novels. Two increases, one decrease, and one exactly the same. Not bad overall… And now, let the counting start all over again!

Movies:

1. True Grit
2. Rabbit Hole
3. Another Year
4. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Live Action
5. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animated
6. The Illusionist
7. All About Eve
8. Cedar Rapids
9. Source Code
10. Scream 4
11. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
12. Bridesmaids
13. Potiche
14. Meek’s Cutoff
15. Midnight in Paris
16. Super 8
17. X-Men: First Class
18. The Future
19. The Prestige
20. The Help
21. Griff the Invisible
22. The Debt
23. Weekend
24. The Skin I Live In
25. Martha Marcy May Marlene
26. Le Gamin au Velo
27. The Deep Blue Sea
28. The Descendants
29. Shame
30. Hugo
31. Young Adult

Books:

1. Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder
2. The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
3. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
4. Last Summer by Michael Thomas Ford
5. Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
6. Shopgirl by Steve Martin
7. The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa
8. This Is NPR: The First Forty Years by NPR
9. The Diary of a Dr Who Addict by Paul Magrs
10. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
11. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
12. Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia by Samuel R. Delany
13. The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee
14. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
15. Going Bovine by Libba Bray
16. Twinkle Twinkle by Kaori Ekuni
17. D.C. Noir edited by George Pelecanos
18. Homemade Living: Canning & Preserving with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Make Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Chutneys & More by Ashley English
19. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
20. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8. Lee
21. The Demon’s Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
22. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
23. Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow
24. Bob the Book by David Pratt

Fiction Magazines, Chapbooks, and Zines:

1. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #23
2. Lightspeed Magazine, January 2011
3. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #24
4. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #26
5. Lightspeed Magazine, February 2011
6. Fantasy Magazine, March 2011
7. Fantasy Magazine, April 2011
8. Lightspeed Magazine, March 2011
9. Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011
10. Fantasy Magazine, May 2011
11. Lightspeed Magazine, May 2011
12. Fantasy Magazine, June 2011
13. Lightspeed Magazine, June 2011

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Once again, I went and tracked how many movies, books, and graphic novels I saw/read over the course of the year. Last year’s tally had me at at 20 movies, 20 books, and 123 graphic novels. This year? 31 movies, 21 books, and 124 graphic novels. The “just one higher” for the last two categories was a happy accident, really…

Movies:

1. Avatar
2. Invictus
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. Greenberg
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Iron Man 2
7. Please Give
8. The City of Your Final Destination
9. Micmacs
10. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
11. Winter’s Bone
12. Toy Story 3
13. Despicable Me
14. Inception
15. The Kids Are All Right
16. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
17. Salt
18. Christmas in Connecticut
19. A Letter to Three Wives
20. Easy A
21. Heartbreaker
22. Never Let Me Go
23. Waiting For “Superman”
24. The Social Network
25. Red
26. Fair Game
27. Certified Copy
28. Tangled
29. Black Swan
30. The King’s Speech
31. Somewhere

Books:

1. Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett
2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
3. Hapworth 16, 1924 by J.D. Salinger
4. Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories by Samuel R. Delany
5. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
6. Blackout by Connie Willis
7. Ash by Malinda Lo
8. Twelve Stories by Paul Magrs
9. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
10. The City & The City by China Miéville
11. Stealing Fire by Jo Graham
12. Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison
13. Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category ed. by Dave Eggers
14. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
15. Second Line by Poppy Z. Brite
16. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa
17. The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
18. Soulless by Gail Carriger
19. Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson
20. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
21. All Clear by Connie Willis

Fiction Magazines, Chapbooks, and Zines:

1. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #25

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For the past few years, I tracked which movies that I saw in the theatre. It was fun to look back and see how many (and what) I’d seen, and this year I decided to take it a step further and add books and graphic novels into the mix, with the help of Goodreads. (I also decided to allow movies I saw on DVD, even though that tally turned out to be just one.)

I ended up tying 2007’s movie tally with 20 films, and amusingly enough that was also the number of novels I read. As for graphic novels… well, let’s just say the final tally was a wee bit higher.

Movies:

1. The Women (the 1939 version)
2. Frost/Nixon
3. Watchmen
4. Every Little Step
5. Star Trek
6. Little Ashes
7. Away We Go
8. Up
9. Public Enemies
10. The Hurt Locker
11. (500) Days of Summer
12. Paris
13. Inglorious Basterds
14. An Education
15. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire
16. A Room With a View
17. A Serious Man
18. Fantastic Mr. Fox
19. Up in the Air
20. A Single Man

Books:

1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
3. Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale
4. All Seated On The Ground by Connie Willis
5. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
6. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
7. Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories by Craig Laurance Gidney
8. The Cabinet of Light by Daniel O’Mahony
9. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
10. Shell Shock by Simon A. Forward
11. Farthing by Jo Walton
12. The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories by John Kessel
13. Listening Is an Act of Love edited by Dave Isay
14. A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
15. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
16. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
17. Psycho by Robert Bloch
18. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
19. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
20. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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