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I've missed the last couple of months, but here's the year in things I did, read, watched and otherwise spent my time on:

Films: I haven't quite gotten around to updating 52filmchallenge yet, but I actually made it to 52 this year \o/ ( And for the record, here they are: )

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Films: Three this month: Duplicity, which was rather good, Monsters vs Aliens which was disappointing, and State of Play which was very good.

Books: Crusaders, Richard Kelly - I got just over half-way through this before giving up on it. The writing itself was good, and the stories of the individual characters themselves were, for the most part, ( Read more... )

Films So, I watched 41 films this year, not counting rewatches. I've blogged briefly about them over on 52filmchallenge, but here's the list:

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Films: Yay, finally saw a few more films this month. Brief reviews here.

Books: Vicious Circle and Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey. The second and third Felix Castor novels respectively, these books are set in a Buffyesque London, right about now, but the dead are walking and doing a hell of a lot more besides. These books are as much about ( Read more... )

I think my efforts to break the work/slump cycle have paid off, and I've actually done a bit more this month than previously...

Films: Finally, we got around to watching some new films. Eight new films, to be exact. Brief reviews here and here.

Books: The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield, is an odd story, about a bookish young woman ( Read more... )

This month I are mostly been working, or slumping, so this is going to be short:

Films: For the second month in a row, I've not seen a single new-to-me film.

Books: I finally finished The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. This really deserves a post of its own, but in summary it wasn't nearly half as clever as it thought it was, not nearly as ( Read more... )

Back from Manchester, where it was a good ten degrees colder yesterday evening than London was on Monday afternoon. Brr. Saw Man Utd beat a Europe XI 4-3Irritations: taxis arriving five minutes early while you're still putting your boots on; not getting a seat on the train for a couple of hours; idiots who can't behave appropriately at football ( Read more... )