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I'm going to do this list for 2015. I made a modified list for 2016 that fits me better. And only one category per book. For example, I will be using Margaret Atwoods Maddaddam trilogy for the trilogy. But it would also fit into "by a female author" and "set in the future" (I think).

Anyway, I was curious to see if I unintentionally read any in 2014:

1. Finished in one day: The Crow. Have been watching the movie since I was little. Amazing art.


2. Antonym in the title: N/A


3. Set somehere you've always wanted to visit: My books didn't travel very much. Also, I'm sort of a homebody. I guess London in Neverwhere. But one country that always makes me go "OMG WTF why are you so prettyful!?" is Iceland. So for 2015, I'll get a book set in Iceland.


4. Came out the year you were born: The Witching Hour.


5. Book with bad reviews: 50 Shades of Grey


6. Trilogy: Didn't get a whole one in, but finished His Dark Materials. Least sentimental/condescending childrens books ever. And so good.


7. Book from childhood: I assume this means re-read a book you read as a child, I re-read Hop on Pop by Dr. Suess before donating it.


8. Love Triangle: The Forest of Hands and Teeth


9. Set in the future: The Handmaids Tale


10. Set in highschool: Fly on the Wall


11. Colour in the title: Pink Smog


12. Made you cry: I don't know if any made me cry. Maybe Wintergirls.


13. Magic: The Night Circus


14. Graphic Novel: Fun Home


15. By An author you never read before: White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi. A lot would have fit into this category, but I wanted to point this book out. So good.


16. Book you own but never read: I have a shit ton of books that fit here, but I'll single out the ones that have been with me for years. Like coffee table books, do people ever read them? Mine was Birthday Secrets, an astrology book.


17. Takes place in your hometown: none, the closest was Toronto-set Scott Pilgrims Precious Little Life. Toronto is 4 hours away I think. I looked up novels set in Windsor on the library website, found a few that might be interesting.


18. Written in a different language: The Little Prince (French).


19. Christmas: A Midwinter's Tail was set in early December and mentions Christmas. Snowed in seemed to be set during winter break, but it never mentions Christmas or New Years. Or when they go back to school.


20. Author with your initials: Nope. Jodi Picoult for 2015 it is.


21. A play: N/A


22. Banned book: 1984


23. Based on or inspired by a tv show: Buffy comic book


24. Started but never finished: The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963. We started reading it in school, but then they took it off the reading list. I don't think it was banned, I think it was paperwork or something. I dunno.


25. More than 500 pages: The Witching Hour. But I won't be using the same books for several categories in 2015.

Going to make this two posts.

This song is so good.

Other songs I'm lovin' today

1. Tina Turner - Mountain High/River Deep


2. Ohio Players - Sweet Sticky Thing


3. The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

This parody Kim Wayans did of the Crystal Waters song. <3

Another Vi Hart video that is just...

David Walliams wrote a childrens book called Gangsta Granny. I know him as the creepy dude from Capturing Mary, so it's hilarious.

While I'm here, I may as well do an update on the books I'm reading

Motown Encyclopedia

• Bruce Willis had an entry, lol

InterWorld

• Joeys mom took that really well


• I finished it

Christmas Treasury

• I skipped the short story "A Country Christmas". I don't like doing that, but bleh.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

• Finished this. It's a little more incoherant than the first volume, but in a charming way I guess.

Finished The Handmaids Tale

1. Like I said, I loved it.


2. It didn't really mention what happened to people of color. I imagine the Marthas are WOCs. Or maybe there are still POC and that includes the Econowives.


3. "Seed in early Gilead"

Started Eat Pray Love

• I know I know, but I need something easy breezy to read right now.

Got this in the mail

1. Goodreads win


2. a book about Motown written by a British white guy, I dunno


3. It's going to take a while

Fifty Shades Darker

1. Bitch-troll


2. I actually liked the movie 9 and 1/2 Weeks, too bad the series couldn't be more like that.


3. They've only been together for 5 weeks! Ack!


4. She has worn that blue shirt too many times, does it even get clean?


5. Ugh, he bitches at her for harmlessly flirting with Taylor. He's like Ray to her, Christian is a cockstain.


6. Christian says that lovers don't need safewords!? Fuck you, yes they do!


7. If Ana had went on the NYC trip and her boss tried to rape her, it would have been so victim blamey. I think I would have burned the book.


8. Christian called Ana and then hung up! That is so childish, that is something Harpy does. Why aren't they using their blackberries for emailing, WTF?


9. I read "His breathing eases" as "his breathing ceases" and was happy for a moment. I wrote it in my notes as "His breading eases". Christian eases up on breadmaking.


10. In my annotations, when Ana mentioned her inner goddess doing something (can't remember), I wrote "my inner demon rolls its eyes". It was the one before her inner goddess put a rose in her mouth and did a tango.

A couple of days ago. Read the introduction by Brooke Allen as well and have some thoughts on that:

1. Van Helsing made a reference to the Ugly Duckling...


2. "...calls some of my sex to love..." misread that and thought he meant he had a bit of a boner


3. Henry Irving seems like an asshole


4. It sounds like Bram Stoker may have been asexual, with crushes on men like Walt Whitman and Henry Irving.


5. Brooke Allen says that Lucy didn't survive, because she was too innocent and virginal. It's funny, because most movies today portray her as a slut, because horror movies like to kill off sexual women. I'm glad that the words virgin and slut no longer have any meaning to me. They are just words used to demean women and put them into categories.


6. This

Overall, I liked it, but it's not my favourite old-timey horror. Though there were some really good parts that Brooke Allen pointed out. I'm more partial to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Maybe in that order. I still want to read Carmilla.

Read a comic book called Pretty Deadly, written by Kelly Sue Deconnick and illustrated by Emma Rios:

1. I really liked it


2. A lot of cool female characters


3. At first I found it chaotic, but that happens a lot when I read comics/graphic novels/whatnot


4. I was thinking a male character (Mutt, I think), looked a lot like Lee Van Cleef. Or reminded me of him. In the back of the book, there were conceptual drawings. Ginnys hat was called the "Lee Van Cleef" hat.


5. Anyway, I want to continue with this series.

I have wonderful memories of reading Bunnicula when I was 10. It was a class novel. I read it at home, at this lovely blue desk we used to have, bu candlelight. We had a shallow stone bowl that I would burn stuff in, and pretend I was a witch. I like to play with hot wax when I was little...

I've been reading The Witching Hour. I like Anne Rice a whole lot better that EL James, but her sex scene make me roll my eyes just as much. I've also never liked how she writes about rape. Or characters calling rough consensual sex "mutual rape" or something like that. I guess I will never read her Sleeping Beauty series.

Also, the Talamasca know(s?) how to waste time. They left the hotel to drive 90 minutes to a plantation, so that Michael can read the files that would take anyone hours to read? Then they have to drive the 90 minutes back?