the once and future tropie

Books

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Movies

12 Years a Slave

Television

Buffy season two (rewatch)
Masters of Sex 1x06, 1x07, 1x08, 1x09
The Mindy Project 2x06, 2x07, 2x08, 2x09, 2x10
New Girl 3x07, 3x08, 3x09, 3x10
Star Trek: DS9 1x01, 1x02, 1x03

Books

The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner (reread)
The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner (reread)
The King of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner (reread)

Movies

Ken Burns: The War

Television

Dexter 8x12, 8x13
New Girl 3x01, 3x02
The Newsroom 2x08, 2x09

APPENDIX:
1: I don't feel like this adequately captures just HOW MANY TIMES I reread QOA/KOA last month. It was a lot of times. A LOT.
2: The War was a really incredible documentary. It's Ken Burns, so it's a miniseries that is like 14 hours total (there's a reason it is the majority of what I watched in September), but that time is not wasted AT ALL. It's a bottom up series of stories about the war, focusing on four towns in the US and how people in those towns experienced the war, but it gets into so much more that most histories do, like what it meant for Mobile, Alabama to become a huge factory town with a ton of migrant workers, many of whom were black and coming into the segregation South for "better work" and how that affected the idea of double victory, and what it meant for Asian-American soldiers to enlist. There is a lot of graphic imagery, not surprisingly, particularly "The Ghost Front", which details among other things US soldiers discovering concentration camps.

Books

All The President’s Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Movies

Stoker
Pacific Rim
Bachelorette
Jackie Brown
Castle in the Sky
Only Yesterday
Lust, Caution

Television

Dexter 8x01, 8x02, 8x03
Family Tree Season One
Luther 3x01, 3x02, 3x03, 3x04
The Newsroom 2x01, 2x02, 2x03
Pretty Little Liars 4x04, 4x05, 4x06, 4x07

Books

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon (reread)
A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers

Movies

The Place Beyond the Pines
The Big Wedding

Television

The Borgias 3x01, 3x02, 3x03
Broadchurch 1x01, 1x02, 1x03, 1x04, 1x05, 1x06, 1x07, 1x08
Mad Men 6x01, 6x02, 6x03
Veep 2x01, 2x02

Books

Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
Persuasion, Jane Austen (reread)

Movies

The Trip
The Vow
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Television

Battleground 1x02, 1x03
Gravity Falls 1x13
The Mindy Project 1x14, 1x15, 1x16
My Mad Fat Diary 1x01, 1x02, 1x03, 1x04, 1x05, 1x06
New Girl 2x16, 2x17, 2x18
Pretty Little Liars 3x18, 3x19, 3x20, 3x21

Happy New Year!

Books

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookshop, Robin Sloan
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Movies

Emma
Take This Waltz

Television

Breaking Bad 1x01, 1x02, 1x03, 1x05, 1x06, 1x07
Dexter 7x10, 7x11, 7x12
Homeland 2x10
The Mindy Project 1x08, 1x09
New Girl 2x10, 2x11

Well, I didn't quite get to 50 books this year - I'm in the middle of two, but finished neither. Still, 48! That's more than any year I can remember before I started college, I think. I don't remember if I tried to do the same with movies last year, but I'm going to this year. And tv...yikes. I watch a lot of tv and I don't actually like a good chunk of that. Maybe this year I will only watch tv I care about. I'd like to feel like I waste less time this year.

Books

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (reread)
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Half Empty, David Rakoff

Movies

The Muppets
Birdemic

Television

Boardwalk Empire 3x01, 3x02, 3x03
Dexter 7x01, 7x02, 7x03, 7x04, 7x05
Gravity Falls 1x11, 1x12
Homeland 2x01, 2x02, 2x03, 2x04, 2x05
The Mindy Project 1x02, 1x03, 1x04
Nashville 1x01
New Girl 2x03, 2x04, 2x05, 2x06
The Thick of It 1x01, 1x02, 1x03, 2x00, 2x01, 2x02, 2x03, 3x00, 3x01, 3x02, 3x03, 3x04, 3x05, 3x06, 3x07, 3x08, 4x00
The Way We Live Now 1x01, 1x02, 1x03, 1x04

Books

Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
The Book of Mormon Girl, Joanna Brooks

Movies

Training Rules
It (1927)
Valentino: The Last Emperor
My Neighbor Totoro
Attack the Block

Television

Episodes 2x06, 2x07, 2x08, 2x09
Gravity Falls 1x07, 1x08, 1x09
The Newsroom 1x07, 1x08, 1x09, 1x10
North and South 3, 4
Pretty Little Liars 3x09, 3x10, 3x11, 3x12
Twin Peaks 1x01, 1x02, 1x03, 1x04, 1x05
The West Wing 1x10

Books

Embassytown, China Miéville

Movies

Snow White & The Huntsman
Moonrise Kingdom
Prometheus

Television

Girls 1x07, 1x08
Mad Men 5x12, 5x13
Veep 1x06, 1x07

Books

Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party, M.T. Anderson
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson

Movies

Kiki’s Delivery Service
Reservoir Dogs (rewatch)

Television

The Borgias 2x01, 2x02, 2x03, 2x04
Community 3x11
Game of Thrones 2x01, 2x02, 2x03, 2x04
Girls 1x01, 1x02, 1x03
Legend of Korra 1x01, 1x02, 1x03
Mad Men 5x03, 5x04, 5x05, 5x06, 5x07
New Girl 1x19, 1x20, 2x21, 2x22
Parks and Recreation 4x19
Shameless 2x12
Up All Night 1x21, 1x22, 1x23, 1x24
Veep 1x01, 1x02
The West Wing 1x02, 1x03, 1x04, 1x05, 1x06