Well here's something new for 2024, even though it's looking back at 2023! But as well as reading and watching movies, there's been an awful lot of really, really good tv this year. Like films, I've sucked totally at getting any reviews written, so I'm going to cheat catch up with a 'best of' kind … Continue reading 2023: A year in tv
It's been a goodly long while since I did one of these, but I've also been very lax on reviewing movies this past year. Following the interruptus maximus (y'know what I mean), I never did go back to having a cinema pass, so the whole movie experience is very different than with 2017's post. Cinema That said, … Continue reading 2023: A year in movies
(banner artwork by the amazing Simon Fetscher) First off, huge, HUGE congratulations to the folks at SciFiMonth on the occasion of this TENTH anniversary! How fabulous is that?! So of course I want to help celebrate with all things sci-fi, my (joint) favourite genre and topic of some of my favourite reads of all time. … Continue reading SciFi Month 2022: TBR
Following on from the A-Z challenge the next idea was to have a brief stroll through a decade of movies. Well, actually, I was going to do a 'deep dive' into single year and watch several movies (much like the Best Movie Year Ever! - and still might), but then some friends asked to tag … Continue reading Movie decades challenge: 80s
You can read the background to this in the Part 1 post. The second half of the alphabet went much slower, mainly as I had less time in general, with life settling into a new kind of normal. But I was determined to finish, even though I struggled mightily to find an N, a Q, … Continue reading Lockdown A-Z challenge part 2
Ah, lockdown! The biggest thing to have shaken up all our lives pretty much ever. Hope you're all coping. I'm a huge introvert, so it's not been too bad. But, like most, I'm looking for ways to keep myself entertained. A challenge, you say? What kind of a challenge? Why, a movie-viewing challenge! Early on, … Continue reading Lockdown A-Z challenge part 1
I might not have been too enthused about my Year in Movies, but looking back over my reading is a much more interesting picture - to me, at any rate! 😉 Metrics According to my records, I've read 72 books over the year (okay, technically I finished 2 of them in the first days of … Continue reading 2017: A year in books
If my counting is correct, I saw 49 films (not including repeat viewings or events) at the cinema during 2017, getting good use out of that monthly pass! I'm usually generous with my ratings, but the average mark out of ten was only 6.5, dipping as low as 3 and never higher than 9. All … Continue reading 2017: A year in movies
I don't track all my movie-viewing quite as well as I do my reading (although this blog should in theory change that!), but I do know that I saw 47 movies at the cinema this year (not including live broadcasts) - got to love that cinema pass! Beginnings The first cinema trip of 2015 was to … Continue reading 2015: A year in movies
I started keeping a 'commonplace' book as one of my new year's resolutions for 2015, a way to capture some interesting snippets for my own writing, plus stop myself instantly forgetting everything I read ! This blog followed in June, adding more of a review slant to my notes. Over the full 12 months, Goodreads tells … Continue reading 2015: A year in books
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