STATS: Total (new-to-me) Movies Watched = 67, of which
27 were General (Drama/Action/Etc.)
17 were Scifi/Fantasy
10 were Horror
5 were Animated
4 were Comedy
4 were Documentaries
5 were Foreign (non-English)
In addition, I watched a total of 9 short films.
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STATS: Total Books Read = 100, of which
67 were Fiction (a mix of scifi, fantasy, horror, and classics)
9 were Nonfiction
13 were Comics/Graphic Novels
11 were Poetry
11 were Audio Books
1 was DNF (read enough to count it, but didn’t actually finish)
Best Reads in 2013


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Since today marks the start of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) - that delightful challenge to complete a ridiculous 50,000 words in a single month - I thought I would pull out an old video for today’s Friday Five.

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To summarize:

1. Don’t Delete Anything
2. Jump Around
3. Dares and Prompts
4. Plot Ninjas Are Your Friends
5. Be Competitive

Happy Halloween!

This, my friends is my favorite holiday. I love a good scare, the costume, the creepy decorations, the delight of believing in the ghost in the attic or the monster under the bed even if for just one night.

My sister is less enthused. Anything to scary gives her anxiety. My baby niece is also getting to an age where she’s paying ( Read more... )

Cool Material has published their list of The Best Movies from A-Z. There are a lot of fantastic movies on that list, many of which I loves, though there are also others I don't and these sorts of lists always makes me wonder how they were compiled and what criteria they used and what sorts of debates went down among the editors as they narrowed ( Read more... )

I'm a huge fan of horror movies and I love seeing behind the scenes of how movies are made, so it's no surprise that I would totally dig Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror, by Jason Zinoman. The book presents a history of how filmmakers, such as Wes Craven, Roman Polanski, ( Read more... )

For some reason, I didn't post about my category reading challenge for 2011, huh (well, here it is on Librarything). I'm not done with it yet, and it doesn't look like I will finish -- I'm currently at 90 books, with 9 more to be read. I'll post my reading stats at the end of the month once I have a full tally.

In the meantime, I'm planning to do ( Read more... )

( 1. People of the Book (audio book), by Geraldine Brooks..... 2. Half Life, by Roopa Farooki..... 3. Anacaona, Golden Flower (The Royal Diaries), by Edwidge Danticat..... 4. A Farewell to Arms (audio book), by Ernest Hemingway..... 5. The Ghost Trio (poetry), by Linda Bierds..... 6. The Restless Dead, edited by Deborah Noyes..... 7. The Haunted House (poetry), by Marissa Crawford..... 8. Cures Include Travel (poetry), by Susan Rich..... 9. Moonheart, by Charles De Lint..... 10. Eating in the Underworld (poetry), by Rachel Zucker )

( 5 books read in March: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce; Going Bovine, by Libba Bray; The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner; Everyday Apocalypse, by David Dark; and Mrs. Dalloway, by Virgina Woolf )

I did not complete my category reading challenge for 2009 (9 books each in 9 categories), falling one book short of the 81 books I needed to read (though I technically read 88 books last year as not all of them fit the categories).

Despite this, I'm planning on launching into a 10x10 category challenge for 2010. I will attempt to read 10 books each ( Read more... )