Thursday, January 3, 2013

Book Read 2012

Here's a list of all the books I read in 2012.  60 in total, 20 I'd read before.

My favorites:
The Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern
Necromancing the Stone / Lish McBride
Breed / Chase Novak
Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn
Assassin's Quest / Robin Hobb
Royal Assassin / Robin Hobb
Assassin's Apprentice / Robin Hobb
Cast in Fury / Michelle Sagara
Cast in Secret / Michelle Sagara
Cast in Courtlight / Michelle Sagara
Cast in Shadow / Michelle Sagara
Timeless / Gail Carriger

The rest:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / Ransom Riggs
Deadlocked / Charlaine Harris
Dead Reckoning / Charlaine Harris (re-read)
The House Next Door / Anne Rivers Siddons (re-read)
Transmetropolitan, vol. 2 / Warren Ellis
Spike omnibus / Peter David, et al.
Transmetropolitan, vol. 1 / Warren Ellis  (re-read)
Planetary, vol 3 / Warren Ellis
Planetary, vol 2 / Warren Ellis
Planetary, vol 1 / Warren Ellis
Angel and Faith vol. 1
BTVS Season 9, vol. 1
Nocturnal / Scott Sigler
Locke and Key, vol. 5 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 4 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 3 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 2 / Joe Hill
Locke and Key, vol. 1 / Joe Hill (re-read)
Who Could That Be at This Hour? / Lemony Snicket
And Eternity / Piers Anthony  (re-read)
For Love of Evil / Piers Anthony  (re-read)
Being a Green Mother / Piers Anthony  (re-read)
Wielding a Red Sword / Piers anthony  (re-read)
With a Tangled Skein / Piers Anthony  (re-read)
Bearing an Hourglass / Piers Anthony  (re-read)
On a Pale Horse / Piers Anthony  (re-read)
Bethany's Sin / Robert R. McCammon  (re-read)
Mine / Robert R. McCammon  (re-read)
Usher's Passing / Robert R. McCammon  (re-read)
Sharp Objects / Gillian Flynn
Wake / Robert J. Sawyer
Ancestor / Scott Sigler
The Killing Floor / Lee Child
Redshirts / John Scalzi
Red / Warren Ellis
My Sweet Audrina / V.C. Andrews  (re-read)
Seeds of Yesterday / V.C. Andrews  (re-read)
If There Be Thorns / V.C. Andrews  (re-read)
Petals on the Wind / V.C. Andrews  (re-read)
Flowers in the Attic / V.C. Andrews  (re-read)
Spoiled / Heather Cocks; Jessica Morgan
Agorafabulous! Dispatches from My Bedroom / Sara Benincasa
Kill the Dead / Richard Kadrey
Sandman Slim / Richard Kadrey  (re-read)
You're Not Doing It Right / Michael Ian Black
The Night Eternal / Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Circle of Enemies / Harry Connolly

Movies 2012

Movies I watched in 2012
I only watched 25 movies this year (not including movies I re-watched).  This seems like a very low number.  Plus, I only saw two movies in the theater this year and both were Joss Whedon movies.  That's about right.

5 stars
The Avengers

4 1/2 stars
Bridesmaids
Cabin in the Woods 
Goon

4 stars
The Trip
The Guard

3 1/2 stars
Sleepwalk with Me
Tiny Furniture
Gambit
Happy-Go-Lucky
Paranormal Activity 2

3 stars
Bronson (5 STARS for Nekkid Tom Hardy)
Haywire
Young Adult
The Muppets
Fright Night (2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
X-Men First Class
April Fool's Day
Paranormal Activity 3

2 1/2 stars
Fast Five (4 stars for Sweaty Dwayne Johnson )

2 stars
Red State
Planet of the Apes
Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan
Cherry Falls

1 1/2 stars
The Slumber Party Massacre

1 star
Bad Teacher (only got through about 20 minutes of this dreck)