they do say if you do something often enough it becomes a habit

[robling_t]

Media Consumption Tracking time again; results for 2010 show an upswing on the books tally with 49 read in total, much of which is directly down to the CPL having finally got it together about putting their holds system on-line, and holding roughly steady on films with 36. Further fun with statistics reveals that in the five years I've been tracking my Media Consuption here, I have read a total of 439 books and seen 188 films... I suppose someone is going to start telling me to get a real life now, aren't they. But on to 2011:


January: 4 books, 4 films

BOOKS:

• the Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
  
• The Tudors : the complete story of England's most notorious dynasty, G J Meyer
  
• Tinder box : the Iroquois Theatre disaster, 1903, Anthony P Hatch
  
• Into the arms of strangers : stories of the Kindertransport, Mark Jonathan Harris
  

FILMS:

• Race to Witch Mountain
  
• TRON: Legacy
  
• Toy Story 3
  
• Michael Collins
  

February: 6 books, 7 films

BOOKS:

• Edith's story, Edith Velmans Van Hessen
  
• False papers : deception and survival in the Holocaust, Robert Melson
  
• Undead and unfinished, MaryJanice Davidson
  
• Mennonite In A Little Black Dress: a memoir of going home, Rhoda Janzen
  
• The Magicians, Lev Grossman
  
  
• re-read: A necklace of raindrops and other stories, Joan Aiken
  

FILMS:

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  
• Wings [1927]
  
• Valentino
  
• Despicable Me
  
• Blood And Chocolate
  
• Twilight
  
• Centurion
  

March: 5 books, 4 films

BOOKS:

• Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
  
• Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
  
• Half empty, David Rakoff
  
• Feed, Mira Grant
  
• Spoken here : travels among threatened languages, Mark Abley
  

FILMS:

• Red
  
• 27 Dresses
  
• Religulous
  
• the Fantasticks
  

April: 4 books, 6 films

BOOKS:

• Medium raw : a bloody valentine to the world of food and the people who cook, Anthony Bourdain
  
• The Great War and the shaping of the 20th century, Jay Winter & Blaine Baggett
  
• I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett
  
• The reformed vampire support group, Catherine Jinks
  

FILMS:

• Latter Days
  
• The Guru
  
• Miracle Mile
  
• Skin
  
• Dog Soldiers
  
• A Wedding
  

May: 2 books, 3 films

BOOKS:

• The new good life : living better than ever in an age of less, John Robbins
  
• Midnight Riot, Ben Aaronovitch
  

FILMS:

• Jungle 2 Jungle
  
• An Education
  
• 2012
  

June: 7 books, 2 films

BOOKS:

• Among Others, Jo Walton
  
• The Essential Bordertown: a traveller's guide to the edge of Faerie
  
• Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
  
• Gunn's golden rules : life's little lessons for making it work, Tim Gunn with Ada Calhoun
  
• It's a girl: women writers on raising daughters
  
• the Land of Painted Caves, Jean M Auel
  
• Didn't I Feed You Yesterday? A Mother's Guide to Sanity in Stilettos, Laura Bennett
  

FILMS:

• Neverwas
  
• Mommie Dearest
  

July: 8 books, 6 films

BOOKS:

• The secret of Chanel No. 5 : the intimate history of the world's most famous perfume, Tilar J. Mazzeo
  
• What women want : the global marketplace turns female friendly, Paco Underhill
  
• On the grid : a plot of land, an average neighborhood, and the systems that make our world work, Scott Huler
  
• Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
  
• New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
  
• Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
  
• Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
  
  
• re-read: The Pushcart War, Jean Merrill
  

FILMS:

• Casualties Of War
  
• Chang [1927]
  
• Hellboy
  
• The Son Of The Sheik
  
• the Abominable Dr. Phibes
  
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again
  

August: 5 books, 3 films

BOOKS:

• The twilight saga : the official illustrated guide
  
• Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein
  
• Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire
  
• Zombies vs. Unicorns
  
• Hold me closer, necromancer, Lish McBride
  

FILMS:

• War of the Buttons
  
• Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma In)
  
• Black Sheep [the cannibal sheep one, not Chris Farley]
  

September: 5 books, 7 films

BOOKS:

• Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá
  
• At home : a short history of private life, Bill Bryson
  
• Welcome to Bordertown
  
• Moon Over Soho, Ben Aaronovitch
  
• Promise of the Wolves, Dorothy Hearst
  

FILMS:

• the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  
• Capitalism: A Love Story
  
• Up
  
• the Stone of Destiny
  
• Carry On Sergeant
  
• the Adjustment Bureau
  
• the Earl of Chicago
  

October: 13 books, 10 films

BOOKS:

• Secrets of the Wolves, Dorothy Hearst
  
• Lost and found : unexpected revelations about food and money, Geneen Roth
  
• the Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, John Scalzi
  
• Fuzzy Nation, John Scalzi
  
• Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland, Patton Oswalt
  
• Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
  
• Deadline, Mira Grant
  
• the Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken
  
• Swedish Chicago , Paul Michael Peterson
  
• the Magician King, Lev Grossman
  
• Darkborn, Alison Sinclair
  
• Blood, bones, and butter: the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef, Gabrielle Hamilton
  
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua
  

FILMS:

• Alice in Wonderland [2010]
  
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  
• Thor
  
• Scott Pilgrim Vs the World
  
• the King of Kong
  
• Dying Breed
  
• Camelot
  
• Teeth
  
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1
  
• Notes on a Scandal
  

November: 7 books, 9 films

BOOKS:

• A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson
  
• Lightborn, Alison Sinclair
  
• Always on: how the iPhone unlocked the anything-anytime-anywhere future-- and locked us in, Brian X. Chen
  
• A gap in nature : discovering the world's extinct animals, Tim Flannery
  
• The winter of our disconnect : how three totally wired teenagers (and a mother who slept with her iPhone) pulled the plug on their technology and lived to tell the tale, Susan Maushart
  
• In other worlds : SF and the human imagination, Margaret Atwood
  
• Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
  

FILMS:

• Tangled
  
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  
• Ponyo
  
• Puss In Boots
  
• Paul
  
• Watchmen
  
• After the Thin Man
  
• In the Name of the Father
  
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
  

December: 5 books, 7 films

BOOKS:

• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  
• Chicks Dig Time Lords
  
• Songs of love and death : tales of star-crossed love
  
• Boomerang : travels in the new Third World, Michael Lewis
  
• Wicked Plants: the weed that killed Lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities, Amy Stewart
  

FILMS:

• the Wisdom of Crocodiles
  
• Stardust
  
• Blow Dry
  
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
  
• Alarm
  
• Oklahoma!
  
• Tropic Thunder