A book list and a meme today...
Just tying up some year-end loose ends over the next couple of days. First up, finishing my second resolution for this year, I only read 47 books this year, 9 of which were 2012 Debut Authors. If you don't recall, the goal was to read 12 debut books, so I'm 3 off my mark. I also mentioned wanting to read Gone with the Wind in 2012, which--looking at the list below--did not happen. Womp, womp.
[Click for full list]2012 Final Book List
(*bold denotes a 2012 Debut Novel)
1. The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab
2. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
3. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
4. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (based on a story idea by Siobhan Dowd)
5. Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
6. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
7. The Hidden by Jessica Verday
8. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Legend by Marie Lu
11. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13. Bunheads by Sophie Flack
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
17. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
18. Tempest by Julie Cross
19. A Million Suns by Beth Revis
20. Pure by Julianna Baggott
21. Ripper by Stefan Petrucha
22. Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
23. The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
24. Everneath by Brodi Ashton
25. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
26. The Nightmare Garden by Caitlin Kittredge
27. Fever by Lauren DeStefano
28. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
29. Death in the Haymarket by James Green
30. Masque of the Red Death Bethany Griffin
31. Timeless by Gail Carriger
32. Timepiece by Myra McEntire
33. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
34. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
35. The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting
36. Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
37. Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
38. The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell
39. The Selection by Keira Cass
40. The Diviners by Libba Bray
41. Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
42. The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand
43. Crewel by Gennifer Albin
44. The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski
45. The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron
46. The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
47. The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron by Joan Baum
Second, a television year-end meme:
Which TV shows did you start watching in 2012?
Homeland
Elementary
American Horror Story: Asylum
Copper
Law & Order (damn you, TNT, and your Friday L&O marathons!)
Which TV shows did you let go of in 2012?
By Choice:
Criminal Minds
The Vampire Diaries
True Blood
most of the reality shows on Bravo
Not by Choice (ie Cancelled):
Weeds
Gossip Girl
House
Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2012? Why?
Downton Abbey. I've caught snippets of it on PBS, but never from the beginning, and I feel like it's a show I should start from the beginning.
Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2013?
I'm not looking forward to anything really. Maybe I'll borrow Downton Abbey from the library. Other than that, Ripper Street and Spies of Warsaw--both airing on BBC America in the coming months--are the only programs on my radar at the moment.
Which TV show impressed you least in 2012?
Gossip Girl has been declining over the years; but this final season was truly atrocious. I don't get the American Horror Story hype either. I'll finish out this season, but don't expect to watch the next one.
Which TV show do you think you might let go of in 2013 unless things significantly improve? -- AND -- Which TV shows do you think you'll never let go of no matter how crappy they get? Why?
1. I don't really watch a show like that right now. All the ones I did have problems with, I've given up/they've already been cancelled. Maybe Law and Order: SVU; but that's more of a scheduling conflict than anything else.
2. As much as I've bitched about it this past year, I don't think I'll ever be able to give up Doctor Who. When the show gets things right in terms of storytelling/characters, it hits it out of the park. And when things are bad...well, they are really bad. I think Moffat needs to get off his pedestal and start serving better stories. He needs to put the story's "needs" first, not his ego. Even with all the problems, I am excited to see the back-half of the season next year. Excited, but wary.
Which TV show did you enjoy the most in 2012?
I have never, ever watched a television show that makes me go from intensely excited to paranoid to stressed out in a 50-minute span like Homeland does. It's quickly made it's way up to my Top 5 favorite TV shows.
[Click for full list]2012 Final Book List
(*bold denotes a 2012 Debut Novel)
1. The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab
2. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
3. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
4. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (based on a story idea by Siobhan Dowd)
5. Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
6. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
7. The Hidden by Jessica Verday
8. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Legend by Marie Lu
11. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13. Bunheads by Sophie Flack
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
17. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
18. Tempest by Julie Cross
19. A Million Suns by Beth Revis
20. Pure by Julianna Baggott
21. Ripper by Stefan Petrucha
22. Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
23. The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
24. Everneath by Brodi Ashton
25. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
26. The Nightmare Garden by Caitlin Kittredge
27. Fever by Lauren DeStefano
28. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
29. Death in the Haymarket by James Green
30. Masque of the Red Death Bethany Griffin
31. Timeless by Gail Carriger
32. Timepiece by Myra McEntire
33. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
34. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
35. The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting
36. Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
37. Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
38. The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell
39. The Selection by Keira Cass
40. The Diviners by Libba Bray
41. Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
42. The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand
43. Crewel by Gennifer Albin
44. The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski
45. The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron
46. The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
47. The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron by Joan Baum
Second, a television year-end meme:
Which TV shows did you start watching in 2012?
Homeland
Elementary
American Horror Story: Asylum
Copper
Law & Order (damn you, TNT, and your Friday L&O marathons!)
Which TV shows did you let go of in 2012?
By Choice:
Criminal Minds
The Vampire Diaries
True Blood
most of the reality shows on Bravo
Not by Choice (ie Cancelled):
Weeds
Gossip Girl
House
Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2012? Why?
Downton Abbey. I've caught snippets of it on PBS, but never from the beginning, and I feel like it's a show I should start from the beginning.
Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2013?
I'm not looking forward to anything really. Maybe I'll borrow Downton Abbey from the library. Other than that, Ripper Street and Spies of Warsaw--both airing on BBC America in the coming months--are the only programs on my radar at the moment.
Which TV show impressed you least in 2012?
Gossip Girl has been declining over the years; but this final season was truly atrocious. I don't get the American Horror Story hype either. I'll finish out this season, but don't expect to watch the next one.
Which TV show do you think you might let go of in 2013 unless things significantly improve? -- AND -- Which TV shows do you think you'll never let go of no matter how crappy they get? Why?
1. I don't really watch a show like that right now. All the ones I did have problems with, I've given up/they've already been cancelled. Maybe Law and Order: SVU; but that's more of a scheduling conflict than anything else.
2. As much as I've bitched about it this past year, I don't think I'll ever be able to give up Doctor Who. When the show gets things right in terms of storytelling/characters, it hits it out of the park. And when things are bad...well, they are really bad. I think Moffat needs to get off his pedestal and start serving better stories. He needs to put the story's "needs" first, not his ego. Even with all the problems, I am excited to see the back-half of the season next year. Excited, but wary.
Which TV show did you enjoy the most in 2012?
I have never, ever watched a television show that makes me go from intensely excited to paranoid to stressed out in a 50-minute span like Homeland does. It's quickly made it's way up to my Top 5 favorite TV shows.