2013 Movies, TV, and Books (October-December)

Jan 02, 2014 01:28

Movies this quarter. Since there are so few, and they were all new to me, I'm not breaking it down or making highlights.
  1. John Dies at the End (Listed in Netflix as a "Halloween Favorite," so I watched it on Halloween.)
  2. Thor: The Dark World (Loved it!)
  3. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (I was very happy with this as well.)
  4. Ender's Game (One of my all-time favorite books. I was really happy with the adaptation. I wonder if the Twilight movies have permanently lowered my expectations for book-to-movie adaptations. If so, I will be grateful.)

Books...
    October (No reading on the A-to-Z challenge. Oops.)
  1. American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot by Craig Ferguson (Audiobook.)
  2. Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine (Morganville Vampires #4) (Still reading, to strengthen the connection with that client. He's agreed to start Harry Potter, so I'm excited. We have a two-person book club! I was planning to stop reading this series - because the protagonist is reminding me a lot of Bella Swan, and she's annoying - but my client assures me that it gets better. In fact, she stops being the narrator as of this book, which is encouraging.)
  3. Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine (Morganville Vampires #5)
  4. Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine (Morganville Vampires #6) (I think I can stop here. They kept ending on cliffhangers, which made it hard to stop at the end of a book. This book has a final chapter that feels more like the first chapter of the next book, but it also closes enough that I don't feel compelled to keep going. I've told my client I'm going to stop reading them eventually, he's read most of Harry Potter (so we have something to talk about), and he just started his English class (which will give him other reading we can discuss). Besides, I'm way behind in my book club reading.)

    November (Again no reading on the A-to-Z challenge, and I was behind on book club selections. Not helpful.)
  5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Book club.)
    After finishing this, I started Dinner at Antoine's by Frances Parkinson Keyes to have theme-reading for my trip to New Orleans. Slow to start, but it got interesting. By the end of 2013, I hadn't finished it (had to finish my A-to-Z challenge!), but I plan to.)

    December
  6. The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida (Book club.)
    ABANDONED: The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life by Ivanka Trump (A gift, which I tried to read out of loyalty to the giver. It was pretty short, so I thought I might as well. And I thought it might replace my "T" so I wouldn't have the same author on the A-to-Z list twice. Then it started taking forever to read, and it just wasn't worth it.)
  7. Upside Down Inside Out by Monica McInerney (The "U" for my A-to-Z. Read in a day, as I was suddenly determined to finish the A-to-Z challenge despite how far behind I was.)
  8. Veronica by Mary Gaitskill (The "V" for my A-to-Z. Definitely not my thing. I was amused to see a review on GoodReads that started with "I only read this book because I needed a book that started with the letter V for my alphabet challenge." That reader seemed to enjoy it. I did not.)
  9. Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen (The "W" for my A-to-Z. It never grabbed me, so it took a few days to read. Booooo! However, I bought it for $.50 at a fire sale. Yay!)
  10. XVI by Julia Karr (The "X" for my A-to-Z. Read on 12/28/13.)
  11. Year Zero by Robert Reid (The "Y" for my A-to-Z. Read on 12/29 and 12/30, despite working a full day and having lots of social time.)
  12. Zero by Tom Leveen (The "Z" for my A-to-Z. Read in a day, on 12/31/13, with a few hours to spare. Woo hoo!)
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