2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year

[Stardog Champion]

Books 19/50
Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Women And Power - Mary Beard
Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman (not sure if this counts)
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden

Movies 14/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde

[Stardog Champion]

Books 21/50
Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Women And Power - Mary Beard
Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman (not sure if this counts)
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden
Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
Dawn - Elie Wiesel

Movies 15/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde
Disaster Artist

[bada]

Books:
01. The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1)
02. Pastime (Spenser, #18)
03. Fletch's Fortune (Fletch, #3)
04. Pacific Vortex! (Dirk Pitt, #1)
05. True Grit
06. Stardust
07. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
08. Norse Mythology
09. The Bat (Harry Hole, #1)
10. Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
11. Death Without Company (Walt Longmire, #2)
12. Firestarter
13. The Terror
14. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
15. The Complete Chronicles of Conan
16. The Jungle Books
17. Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom and Huck #1)
18. Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Tom and Huck #2)
19. The Dragon and the George (Dragon Knight, #1)
20. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
21. Fletch and the Widow Bradley (Fletch, #4)

Movies:
01. Safari (1956)
02. Ice Station Zebra (1968)
03. Knights of the Round Table (1953)
04. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
05. History of Iron Maiden Part 1 (2004)
06. Black Panther (2018)
07. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
08. Baywatch (2017)
09. The Secret of the Incas (1954)
10. History of Iron Maiden Part 2 (2008)
11. The Naked Jungle (1954)
12. Legend Of The Lost (1957)
13. Valley Of The Kings (1954)
14. The Conqueror (1956)
15. History of Iron Maiden Part 3 (2012)
16. Gunga Din (1939)
17. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
18. The Seven-Ups (1973)
19. Incredibles 2

Video Game:
01. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Remastered (PS4)
02. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remastered (PS4)
03. Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)

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Books 19/50
Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Women And Power - Mary Beard
Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman (not sure if this counts)
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden

Movies 14/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde

Sure it does.

I've been meaning to read that one, what did you think of it?

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32/50 Books

• Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale
  Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
  A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson
  Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia
  We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher
  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  Null States by Malka Ann Older
  Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf #1) by Grant Naylor
  Better than Life (Red Dwarf #2) by Grant Naylor
  Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) by Rob Grant
  Last Human (Red Dwarf #3) by Doug Naylor
  Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia
  Shadow Moon (Chronicles of the Shadow War #1) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
  Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions #1) by Lemony Snicket
  You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras
  Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! by Polly Horvath
  When Did You See Her Last? (All the Wrong Questions #2) by Lemony Snicket
  Lord and Lady Bunny--Almost Royalty! by Polly Horvath
  File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (All the Wrong Questions, #2.5) by Lemony Snicket
  Shadow Dawn (Chronicles of the Shadow War #2) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
  1984 by George Orwell
  Moone Boy: The Blunder Years by Chris O'Dowd
  Dragonslayer by Wayland Drew
  Willow (Chronicles of the Shadow War) by Wayland Drew
  Moone Boy: The Fish Detective by Chris O'Dowd
  The Last Jedi by Jason Fry
  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
  All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
  The Smartest Book in the World by Greg? Proops
  Only Human (Themis Files #3) by Sylvain Neuvel

TMiaHM was an interesting book from the perspective of when it was written. The computer kept reminding me of Data from TNG, though I wonder if that's because we're watching S1 right now.

ASR was more of a novella, and I think all four books in one volume would be a book-sized book. It was a different take on robots than I've seen, though I'm not sure on the ending. I'll have to read #2 to see.

If you've ever listened to the Smartest Man in the World podcast you know what the book is about. If not, it's about lots of things that Greg? likes and finds interesting. One thing I noticed is that his podcast isn't about those things anymore, and I wonder if it's because of politics.

Only Human was a merely good finish to a book series I enjoyed. There's giant robots and aliens and a really cool government agent in the series but this book was missing said cool G-man. Kind of a let down in the series, almost King-ish in the ending coming from left field and changing what you understood about the story so far.

26/50 Movies

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
  The Dark Tower (2017)
  Kong: Skull Island (2017)
  Justice League (2017)
  Geostorm (2017)
  The Book of Henry (2017)
  Black Panther (2018)
  Being Canadian (2015)
  Willow (1988)
  Justice League Dark (2017)
  Despicable Me 3 (2017)
  Journey Through the Past (1974)
  Coco (2017)
  The Music of Strangers (2015)
  The Big Sick (2017)
  Chronicle (2012)
  Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
  Darkest Hour (2017)
  The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  Ready Player One (2018)
  Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
  Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  Peter Rabbit (2018)
  Paddington 2 (2017)
  The Greatest Showman (2017)
  Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Amazingly I have not watched a movie since The Greatest Showman. I lied, I was just reminded that I watched the Orient Express movie. I liked it, but I wasn't a fan of how it started out like a comedy, turned into a mystery, and then was a comedy every now and then. It just seemed inconsistent.

[epilogue]

Books: 14/50:
1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing
2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson
6. Ancient History - David Ives
7. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
8. Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
9. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
10. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
11. To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl
12. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
13. Paris Nocturne - Patrick Modiano
14. The Cave - Jose Saramago

Movies: 23/50:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. What If
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Bad Moms Christmas
8. A Ghost Story
9. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
10. Black Panther
11. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
12. Annihilation
13. Girls Trip
14. The House
15. A Quiet Place
16. License to Wed
17. Kodachrome
18. Downsizing
19. Coco
20. Thor: Ragnarok
21. Disobedience
22. Tully
23. Solo: A Star Wars Story

[Stardog Champion]

Books 19/50
Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Women And Power - Mary Beard
Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman (not sure if this counts)
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden

Movies 14/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde

Sure it does.

I've been meaning to read that one, what did you think of it?

I liked it, but I wanted to like it more than I did. I had high hopes because of Gaiman, to the point where they may have created some unreasonable expectations. I liked Strange's storyline in it but wanted more out of Peter Parker's storyline. Overall, good but not great.

[Monkey_Driven]

18/50 - Video Games
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PS4)
Golf Story (Switch)
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PS4)
Pyre (PS4)
What Remains of Edith Finch (PS4)
Celeste (Switch)
Horizon: Zero Dawn, Frozen Wilds (PS4)
Super Mario Odyssey (999 moons) (Switch)
Yoshi's Island (SNES Classic)
Batman: The Telltale Series (PS4)
Splatoon 2 (Switch)
Nioh (PS4)
Bloodborne (PS4)
Stardew Valley (Switch)
God of War (PS4)
Far Cry 5 (PS4)
Donkey Kong: Jungle Freeze (Switch)
Rory McIlroy's PGA Tour (PS4)

9/50 - Movies
Logan
The Post
The Big Sick
Justice League
Get Out
Thor: Ragnorak
Black Panther
Avengers: Infinity War
Goodfellas

[B]

Movies
1. Bright (2017)
2. An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
3. Alien: Covenant (2017)
4. Paddington 2 (2018)
5. Inside Man (2006)
6. Baby’s Day Out (1994)
7. Dave Made a Maze (2017)
8. Hidden Figures (2016)
9. Brad’s Status (2017)
10. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
11. Ingrid Goes West (2017)
12. North by Northwest (1959)
13. Primer (2004)
14. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
15. Boy (2010)
16. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
17. Icarus (2017)
18. Eagle vs. Shark (2007)
19. 1922 (2017)
20. Black Panther (2018)
21. Dunkirk (2017)
22. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
23. Cell (2016)
24. The Florida Project (2017)
25. Moonlight (2016)
26. Jumanji (2017)
27. Ratatouille (2007)
28. The Greatest Showman (2017)
29. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
30. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
31. Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
32. Justice League (2017)
33. The Descent (2005)
34. Curse of Chucky (2013)
35. Cult of Chucky (2017)
36. Cargo (2018)
37. Solo (2018)
38. The Shape of Water (2017)
39. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Books
Key: AB=Audiobook, TP=Trade Paperback, GN=Graphic Novel
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (AB)
2. What Unites Us by Dan Rather (AB)
3. Aphra (TP)
4. Endurance by Scott Kelly (AB)
5. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
6. The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavich (AB)
7. Hacks by Donna Brazile (AB)
8. Woman Rebel by Peter Bagge (GN)
9. Strange Weather by Joe Hill (AB)
10. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (AB)
11. Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington (bailed at 230/394p)
12: Star Wars: Last Flight of the Harbinger (TP)
13. One Shot by Lee Child (AB)
14. March (Books 1-3) by John Lewis (GN)
15. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (AB)
16. Shrill by Lindy West
17. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (AB)
18. Spider-Gwen: Weapon of Choice (TP)
19. A-Force: Warzones (TP)
20. The Trouble with Reality by Brooke Gladstone
21. You’re Saying It Wrong by Ross Petras
22. Bush by Jean Edward Smith (AB)
23. Darth Vader: Imperial Machine (TP)
24. Walking Dead 29: Lines We Cross (TP)
* Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (AB)
25. Educated by Tara Westover (AB)
26. Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs (AB)
27. Time Salvager by Wesley Chu (AB)
28. The Life and Death of Superman by Roger Stern
29. Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates (TP)
30. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer (AB)
31. Saga: Volume 7 (TP)
32. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (AB)
33. The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers (AB)
34. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (AB)
35. A Higher Loyalty by James Comey (AB)
36. Unicorn of Many Hats by Dana Simpson (GN)
37. Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero
38. The Divide by Matt Taibbi (AB)
39. A.D. After Death, Book One by Scott Snyder (GN)
40. Screaming Citadel by Kieron Gillen (TP)
41. The Hard Way by Lee Child (AB)
42. Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmieri
43. The Incredible Hulk: The Future Imperfect by Peter David (GN)
44. The Power by Naomi Alderman (AB)
45. Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (AB)
46. Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol (GN)



I got this book b/c my 9yo son is into graphic novels about social awkward girls. (See everything by Raina Telgemeier, including her adaptions of the Baby Sitters Club books.) My toxic masculinity is obviously bleeding into my children. But everyone in my family picked it up and read it one sitting. It's a great graphic novel.

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Not sure if this would apply, but I like the series:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/99144-hereville

Spunky, strong-willed eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg isn’t interested in knitting lessons from her stepmother, or how-to-find-a-husband advice from her sister, or you-better-not warnings from her brother. There’s only one thing she does want: to fight dragons!

Granted, no dragons have been breathing fire around Hereville, the Orthodox Jewish community where Mirka lives, but that doesn’t stop the plucky girl from honing her skills. She fearlessly stands up to local bullies. She battles a very large, very menacing pig. And she boldly accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch, a challenge that could bring Mirka her heart’s desire: a dragon-slaying sword! All she has to do is find—and outwit—the giant troll who’s got it!

A delightful mix of fantasy, adventure, cultural traditions, and preteen commotion, Hereville will captivate middle-school readers with its exciting visuals and entertaining new heroine.

[B]

Not sure if this would apply, but I like the series:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/99144-hereville

Spunky, strong-willed eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg isn’t interested in knitting lessons from her stepmother, or how-to-find-a-husband advice from her sister, or you-better-not warnings from her brother. There’s only one thing she does want: to fight dragons!

Granted, no dragons have been breathing fire around Hereville, the Orthodox Jewish community where Mirka lives, but that doesn’t stop the plucky girl from honing her skills. She fearlessly stands up to local bullies. She battles a very large, very menacing pig. And she boldly accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch, a challenge that could bring Mirka her heart’s desire: a dragon-slaying sword! All she has to do is find—and outwit—the giant troll who’s got it!

A delightful mix of fantasy, adventure, cultural traditions, and preteen commotion, Hereville will captivate middle-school readers with its exciting visuals and entertaining new heroine.

Thank you for the recommendation. We got it at the library, but I'm sad to say it didn't hit.

My older son, however, has read that whole series.

[B]

Not sure if this would apply, but I like the series:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/99144-hereville

Spunky, strong-willed eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg isn’t interested in knitting lessons from her stepmother, or how-to-find-a-husband advice from her sister, or you-better-not warnings from her brother. There’s only one thing she does want: to fight dragons!

Granted, no dragons have been breathing fire around Hereville, the Orthodox Jewish community where Mirka lives, but that doesn’t stop the plucky girl from honing her skills. She fearlessly stands up to local bullies. She battles a very large, very menacing pig. And she boldly accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch, a challenge that could bring Mirka her heart’s desire: a dragon-slaying sword! All she has to do is find—and outwit—the giant troll who’s got it!

A delightful mix of fantasy, adventure, cultural traditions, and preteen commotion, Hereville will captivate middle-school readers with its exciting visuals and entertaining new heroine.

Thank you for the recommendation. We got it at the library, but I'm sad to say it didn't hit.

My older son, however, has read that whole series.

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I'll take 50/50.

[Stardog Champion]

Books 23/50
Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Women And Power - Mary Beard
Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman (not sure if this counts)
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden
Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
Dawn - Elie Wiesel
East, West - Salman Rushdie
Salvage The Bones - Jesmyn Ward (best book I've read so far this year)

Movies 17/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde
Disaster Artist
Fahrenheit 451
Deadpool 2

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41/50 Books

• Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale
  Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
  A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson
  Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia
  We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher
  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  Null States by Malka Ann Older
  Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf #1) by Grant Naylor
  Better than Life (Red Dwarf #2) by Grant Naylor
  Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) by Rob Grant
  Last Human (Red Dwarf #3) by Doug Naylor
  Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia
  Shadow Moon (Chronicles of the Shadow War #1) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
  Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions #1) by Lemony Snicket
  You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras
  Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! by Polly Horvath
  When Did You See Her Last? (All the Wrong Questions #2) by Lemony Snicket
  Lord and Lady Bunny--Almost Royalty! by Polly Horvath
  File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (All the Wrong Questions, #2.5) by Lemony Snicket
  Shadow Dawn (Chronicles of the Shadow War #2) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
  1984 by George Orwell
  Moone Boy: The Blunder Years by Chris O'Dowd
  Dragonslayer by Wayland Drew
  Willow (Chronicles of the Shadow War) by Wayland Drew
  Moone Boy: The Fish Detective by Chris O'Dowd
  The Last Jedi by Jason Fry
  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
  All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
  The Smartest Book in the World by Greg? Proops
  Only Human (Themis Files #3) by Sylvain Neuvel
  Shadow Star (Chronicles of the Shadow War #3) by Chris Claremont
  20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
  Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
  Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions #3) by Lemony Snicket
  Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch
  Wayward (Wayward Pines #2) by Blake Crouch
  Horns by Joe Hill
  The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3) by Blake Crouch
  Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

I had a lot of dead time on the computer at work for the past two weeks so I could get through a lot. I also had four separate 4-hour drives so I was able to get through some audio books. Joe Hill is a good writer, but Horns was a lot to take in. No one in that book was a good person, really. So much negativity, and I was already in a pretty bad place, so I had a rough go of it. I think I'm staying away from his books for awhile.

Wayward Pines started out good but devolved once you got further into the series. Book three was only decent, and there were a few plot points I was waiting to see developed but they just fizzled out instead. And that ending? WTF.

David Sedaris...that's the first of his books I've read and I had to read it a second time once my snark meter was fully powered up. I was reading them a little too earnestly for them to make me anything other than annoyed at him. Once I was on the same wavelength the stories were much better.

29/50 Movies

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
  The Dark Tower (2017)
  Kong: Skull Island (2017)
  Justice League (2017)
  Geostorm (2017)
  The Book of Henry (2017)
  Black Panther (2018)
  Being Canadian (2015)
  Willow (1988)
  Justice League Dark (2017)
  Despicable Me 3 (2017)
  Journey Through the Past (1974)
  Coco (2017)
  The Music of Strangers (2015)
  The Big Sick (2017)
  Chronicle (2012)
  Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
  Darkest Hour (2017)
  The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  Ready Player One (2018)
  Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
  Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  Peter Rabbit (2018)
  Paddington 2 (2017)
  The Greatest Showman (2017)
  Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
  Solo (2018)
  Annihilation (2018)
  Incredibles 2 (2018)

Annihilation was OK, and differed from the book in some odd choices by the writer/director dude. "He wrote it like a half-remembered dream of reading the book"? What kind of new-age BS is that? The bear scene though...yeah.

Incredibles 2 was good but was hampered by Pixar's go-to bad guy formula. Not great, but a really good sequel all the same.

Started The Man from UNCLE but at about the 35 minute mark no one was paying attention besides me and it was slow anyway so I stopped it, mostly because there was still 1.5 hours of movie left and, like I said, no one else was watching it. Played Mario Kart instead.

edit: I can't believe I forgot I saw Solo. I need to update my list more frequently.

[Stardog Champion]

Books 26/50
Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Women And Power - Mary Beard
Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman (not sure if this counts)
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden
Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
Dawn - Elie Wiesel
East, West - Salman Rushdie
Salvage The Bones - Jesmyn Ward (best book I've read so far this year)
Milk It - Jim DeRogatis
Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain

Movies 20/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde
Disaster Artist
Fahrenheit 451
Deadpool 2
Three Billboards
I, Tonya
Hereditary

[epilogue]

Books: 15/50:
1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing
2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson
6. Ancient History - David Ives
7. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
8. Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
9. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
10. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
11. To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl
12. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
13. Paris Nocturne - Patrick Modiano
14. The Cave - Jose Saramago
15. How To Win A War (first draft) - Brady Gerber

Movies: 23/50:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. What If
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Bad Moms Christmas
8. A Ghost Story
9. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
10. Black Panther
11. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
12. Annihilation
13. Girls Trip
14. The House
15. A Quiet Place
16. License to Wed
17. Kodachrome
18. Downsizing
19. Coco
20. Thor: Ragnarok
21. Disobedience
22. Tully
23. Solo: A Star Wars Story

[bune]

48/50 Books

• Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale
  Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
  A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson
  Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia
  We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher
  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  Null States by Malka Ann Older
  Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf #1) by Grant Naylor
  Better than Life (Red Dwarf #2) by Grant Naylor
  Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) by Rob Grant
  Last Human (Red Dwarf #3) by Doug Naylor
  Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia
  Shadow Moon (Chronicles of the Shadow War #1) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
  Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions #1) by Lemony Snicket
  You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras
  Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! by Polly Horvath
  When Did You See Her Last? (All the Wrong Questions #2) by Lemony Snicket
  Lord and Lady Bunny--Almost Royalty! by Polly Horvath
  File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (All the Wrong Questions, #2.5) by Lemony Snicket
  Shadow Dawn (Chronicles of the Shadow War #2) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
  1984 by George Orwell
  Moone Boy: The Blunder Years by Chris O'Dowd
  Dragonslayer by Wayland Drew
  Willow (Chronicles of the Shadow War) by Wayland Drew
  Moone Boy: The Fish Detective by Chris O'Dowd
  The Last Jedi by Jason Fry
  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
  All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
  The Smartest Book in the World by Greg? Proops
  Only Human (Themis Files #3) by Sylvain Neuvel
  Shadow Star (Chronicles of the Shadow War #3) by Chris Claremont
  20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
  Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
  Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions #3) by Lemony Snicket
  Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch
  Wayward (Wayward Pines #2) by Blake Crouch
  Horns by Joe Hill
  The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3) by Blake Crouch
  Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
  Mustache Shenanigans: Making Super Troopers and Other Adventures in Comedy by Jay Chandrasekhar
  Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (All the Wrong Questions #4) by Lemony Snicket
  Guardians of the Whills by Greg? Rucka
  FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
  The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
  Savage Season (Hap and Leonard #1) by Joe R. Lansdale
  The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne #1) by Mark Hodder

I had a some more of that dead time this week - I was able to finish those last five books in the last five days. Not that it was hard considering I finished the Rucka book in a couple hours...God that was a bad book. I'm going to blame it on the subject instead of the writer though because I've read some of his other stuff and he's not that bad.

I like the Hap and Leonard book, I'm going to try and watch the TV show now. The Burton book alternated between shit and alright so I'm not too sure I want to read the next one.

31/50 Movies

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
  The Dark Tower (2017)
  Kong: Skull Island (2017)
  Justice League (2017)
  Geostorm (2017)
  The Book of Henry (2017)
  Black Panther (2018)
  Being Canadian (2015)
  Willow (1988)
  Justice League Dark (2017)
  Despicable Me 3 (2017)
  Journey Through the Past (1974)
  Coco (2017)
  The Music of Strangers (2015)
  The Big Sick (2017)
  Chronicle (2012)
  Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
  Darkest Hour (2017)
  The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  Ready Player One (2018)
  Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
  Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  Peter Rabbit (2018)
  Paddington 2 (2017)
  The Greatest Showman (2017)
  Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
  Solo (2018)
  Annihilation (2018)
  Incredibles 2 (2018)
  A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

I'm not going into AWiT, it's not worth it.

[B]

Hit 50 books this month. Comment for the month: A Wrinkle in Time was a terrible movie. Everyone in my family hated it, including the kid that recently read and loved the book.

Movies
1. Bright (2017)
2. An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
3. Alien: Covenant (2017)
4. Paddington 2 (2018)
5. Inside Man (2006)
6. Baby’s Day Out (1994)
7. Dave Made a Maze (2017)
8. Hidden Figures (2016)
9. Brad’s Status (2017)
10. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
11. Ingrid Goes West (2017)
12. North by Northwest (1959)
13. Primer (2004)
14. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
15. Boy (2010)
16. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
17. Icarus (2017)
18. Eagle vs. Shark (2007)
19. 1922 (2017)
20. Black Panther (2018)
21. Dunkirk (2017)
22. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
23. Cell (2016)
24. The Florida Project (2017)
25. Moonlight (2016)
26. Jumanji (2017)
27. Ratatouille (2007)
28. The Greatest Showman (2017)
29. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
30. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
31. Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
32. Justice League (2017)
33. The Descent (2005)
34. Curse of Chucky (2013)
35. Cult of Chucky (2017)
36. Cargo (2018)
37. Solo (2018)
38. The Shape of Water (2017)
39. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
40. Baywatch (2017)
41. Lady Bird (2017)
42. A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
43. Incredibles 2 (2018)
44. It (2017)
45. Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

Books
Key: AB=Audiobook, TP=Trade Paperback, GN=Graphic Novel
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (AB)
2. What Unites Us by Dan Rather (AB)
3. Aphra (TP)
4. Endurance by Scott Kelly (AB)
5. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
6. The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavich (AB)
7. Hacks by Donna Brazile (AB)
8. Woman Rebel by Peter Bagge (GN)
9. Strange Weather by Joe Hill (AB)
10. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (AB)
11. Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington (bailed at 230/394p)
12: Star Wars: Last Flight of the Harbinger (TP)
13. One Shot by Lee Child (AB)
14. March (Books 1-3) by John Lewis (GN)
15. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (AB)
16. Shrill by Lindy West
17. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (AB)
18. Spider-Gwen: Weapon of Choice (TP)
19. A-Force: Warzones (TP)
20. The Trouble with Reality by Brooke Gladstone
21. You’re Saying It Wrong by Ross Petras
22. Bush by Jean Edward Smith (AB)
23. Darth Vader: Imperial Machine (TP)
24. Walking Dead 29: Lines We Cross (TP)
* Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (AB)
25. Educated by Tara Westover (AB)
26. Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs (AB)
27. Time Salvager by Wesley Chu (AB)
28. The Life and Death of Superman by Roger Stern
29. Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates (TP)
30. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer (AB)
31. Saga: Volume 7 (TP)
32. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (AB)
33. The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers (AB)
34. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (AB)
35. A Higher Loyalty by James Comey (AB)
36. Unicorn of Many Hats by Dana Simpson (GN)
37. Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero
38. The Divide by Matt Taibbi (AB)
39. A.D. After Death, Book One by Scott Snyder (GN)
40. Screaming Citadel by Kieron Gillen (TP)
41. The Hard Way by Lee Child (AB)
42. Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmieri
43. The Incredible Hulk: The Future Imperfect by Peter David (GN)
44. The Power by Naomi Alderman (AB)
45. Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (AB)
46. Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol (GN)
47. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (AB)
48. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
49. All Star Superman by Grant Morrison (GN)
50. Marvels by Kurt Busiek (GN)
51. The Outsider by Stephen King (AB)
52. Aftermath: Life Debt by Chuck Wendig (AB)
53. Calypso by David Sedaris (AB)
54. The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket (AB)
* The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene (did not finish)

[Stardog Champion]

Books 28/50
Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Women And Power - Mary Beard
Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman (not sure if this counts)
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden
Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
Dawn - Elie Wiesel
East, West - Salman Rushdie
Salvage The Bones - Jesmyn Ward (best book I've read so far this year)
Milk It - Jim DeRogatis
Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Movies 23/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde
Disaster Artist
Fahrenheit 451
Deadpool 2
Three Billboards
I, Tonya
Hereditary
Dunkirk
Kong Skull Island
East of Eden