50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year

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@lloyd_dhr - what did you think about "Do I Come Here Often?"

26/50 Books

• Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
• A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson
• Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Null States by Malka Ann Older
• Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf #1) by Grant Naylor
• Better than Life (Red Dwarf #2) by Grant Naylor
• Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) by Rob Grant
• Last Human (Red Dwarf #3) by Doug Naylor
• Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia
• Shadow Moon (Chronicles of the Shadow War #1) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
• Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions #1) by Lemony Snicket
• You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras
• Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! by Polly Horvath
• When Did You See Her Last? (All the Wrong Questions #2) by Lemony Snicket
• Lord and Lady Bunny--Almost Royalty! by Polly Horvath
• File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (All the Wrong Questions, #2.5) by Lemony Snicket
• Shadow Dawn (Chronicles of the Shadow War #2) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Moone Boy: The Blunder Years by Chris O'Dowd
• Dragonslayer by Wayland Drew
• Willow (Chronicles of the Shadow War) by Wayland Drew

25/50 Movies

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
• The Dark Tower (2017)
• Kong: Skull Island (2017)
• Justice League (2017)
• Geostorm (2017)
• The Book of Henry (2017)
• Black Panther (2018)
• Being Canadian (2015)
• Willow (1988)
• Justice League Dark (2017)
• Despicable Me 3 (2017)
• Journey Through the Past (1974)
• Coco (2017)
• The Music of Strangers (2015)
• The Big Sick (2017)
• Chronicle (2012)
• Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
• Darkest Hour (2017)
• The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Ready Player One (2018)
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
• Peter Rabbit (2018)
• Paddington 2 (2017)

The Bunny books are great fun to read out loud and if you (or your audience) aren't giggling then you're doing something wrong.

I actually read two Snicket books that make up the 2.5 book (confusing, I know) but for the sake of the contest I'm doing the combined version. If you like Encyclopedia Brown, these are way too easy for you. None of them were challenging, and one even stretched the boundaries of that a mystery actually is. Though if you like the characters from the Question series then you might like this too.

Shadow Dawn was a lot better than the previous book, but still too much description. It's like Claremont feels restricted by comic book borders and decided to take on the lot.

1984 is a gut punch, but the post script is heartening.

Jumanji was a better film than it had any right to be. I'm not OK that they're making a 3rd one with the same cast (Rock, etc) because wtf could the movie be about? They are video game characters so they shouldn't remember anything, just be avatars for someone else. Not much of a continuation, really. Maybe they'll surprise again.