2012: a list of books and movies
Books I read:
Sybil Exposed, by Debbie Nathan (January 3)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson* (January 4)
Black Light, by Elizabeth Hand (January 6)
The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton (January 7)
The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffery Eugenides (January 9)
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, by Joyce Carol Oates (January 13)
Ill Nature, by Joy Williams (January 15)
The Uncertain Places, by Lisa Goldstein (January 16)
The Red Tree, by Caitlin R. Kiernan (January 20)
Echoes, by Laura Dockrill (January 21)
Wandering Son vol. 1, by Takako Shimura (January 22)
Fasting Girls, by Joan Jacobs Brumberg (January 25)
The Family Fang, by Kevin Wilson (January 28)
White Apples, by Jonathan Carroll (February 1)
Ruby, by Francesca Lia Block and Carmen Staton (February 2)
King Rat, by China Mieville (February 4)
Pink Smog, by Francesca Lia Block (February 6)
Glass Soup, by Jonathan Carroll (February 10)
Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban (February 17)
The Thief of Always, by Clive Barker* (February 21)
The Encyclopedia of Doris, by Cindy Crabb, technically a zine compilation but I don't care, it's presented in book form! (February 25)
Mister Punch, by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (February 27)
Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett* (March 3)
The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters (March 5)
Under in the Mere, by Catherynne M. Valente (March 8)
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro (March 17)
Silk, by Caitlin R. Kiernan* (March 20)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor (March 27)
The Postmortal, by Drew Magary (March 31)
Misery, by Stephen King (April 5)
Unicorns vs. Zombies, ed. Holly Black and Justine Larbaslestier (April 10)
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, by George Saunders (April 11)
The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater (April 13)
Movies I watched:
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, dir. Todd Haynes (January 2)
Sucker Punch, dir. Zach Snyder (January 4)
Mulholland Drive, dir. David Lynch* (January 14)
Brazil, dir. Terry Gilliam (January 15)
Before Sunrise, dir. Richard Linklater (January 16)
Before Sunset, dir. Richard Linklater (January 16)
Inception, dir. Christopher Nolan (February 11)
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, dir. Park Chan-Wook (March 6)
The Secret World of Arrietty, dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi (March 10)
The Hunger Games, dir. Gary Ross (March 23)
A Tale of Two Sisters, dir. Kim Ji-Woon (March 25)
Hansel and Gretel, dir. Yim Pil-Sung (March 25)
The Red Shoes, dir. Kim Yong-Gyun (March 26)
Loft, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (March 26)
Pontypool, dir. Bruce McDonald (March 27)
Noroi: The Curse, dir. Koji Shiraishi (March 28)
Cropsey, dir. Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio (March 28)
Black Swan, dir. Darren Aronofsky (March 29)
Audition, dir. Takashi Miike (March 29)
Baghead, dir. Jay and Mark Duplass (March 30)
Cinderella, dir. Bong Man-Dae (March 30)
Wild at Heart, dir. David Lynch (March 31)
Girl, Interrupted, dir. James Mangold (March 31)
Orphan, dir. Jaume Collet-Serra (April 4)
Donnie Darko, dir. Richard Kelly (April 8)
In the case of books, the date given is the date I finished reading the book. It shouldn't be taken to indicate that I read the entire book in one day.
Graphic novels count as books. Magazines, zines, and single issues of comics don't. Online content counts as a "book" only if it's specifically presented as such.
Short films and made for TV movies count as movies. Episodes of TV shows don't.
* indicates that it was a re-read or repeat viewing. Books read twice (or more) in the same calendar year and movies watched twice (or more) in the same calendar year won't appear twice (or more) on the list.
DNF indicates that I read/watched a substantial amount of the book/movie but not all of it, for whatever reason.