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 Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
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I'm obviously joking around. I'm not here to tell anyone how to experience art. But I can't imagine not dissecting and analyzing and processing as I read. There are times when the prose is dense and I just let it wash over me while reading, but even then, afterwords I think about the words and ideas and want to discuss them.


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:thumbsup:

I wonder if that's why I'm still reading books to my son. I mean he's way past the point of needing bedtime stories (and Animal Farm isn't exactly light reading) but I do love talking to him about what we're reading and what he's seeing vs. what I'm seeing.


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bune wrote:
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I wonder if that's why I'm still reading books to my son. I mean he's way past the point of needing bedtime stories (and Animal Farm isn't exactly light reading) but I do love talking to him about what we're reading and what he's seeing vs. what I'm seeing.

LOVE this.


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Humble brag: we had parent/teacher meetings last night and his English teacher said he's testing out at a 10th-grade level on the computer programs and is beyond the ability of the standard tests for 7th grade. He showed us the last written assignment that was turned in and he said that the closing statement was the strongest one he's seen in years because it actually made him think about the topic instead of just being the usual "and that's why the Chinese have a hard time in the Pacific Northwest."

Should start posting more in the RM w/kids thread...

EDIT: I finally know what the 'slamming keys' is a replacement for...I was gone for April Fools so it was lost on me when I came back.


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Books: 12/50:
1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing
2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson
6. Ancient History - David Ives
7. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
8. Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
9. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
10. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
11. To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl
12. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle

Movies: 17/50:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. What If
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Bad Moms Christmas
8. A Ghost Story
9. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
10. Black Panther
11. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
12. Annihilation
13. Girls Trip
14. The House
15. A Quiet Place
16. License to Wed
17. Kodachrome


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bune wrote:
Humble brag: we had parent/teacher meetings last night and his English teacher said he's testing out at a 10th-grade level on the computer programs and is beyond the ability of the standard tests for 7th grade. He showed us the last written assignment that was turned in and he said that the closing statement was the strongest one he's seen in years because it actually made him think about the topic instead of just being the usual "and that's why the Chinese have a hard time in the Pacific Northwest."

Should start having a blumpkin more in the RM w/kids thread...

EDIT: I finally know what the 'slamming keys' is a replacement for...I was gone for April Fools so it was lost on me when I came back.

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bune wrote:
Humble brag: we had parent/teacher meetings last night and his English teacher said he's testing out at a 10th-grade level on the computer programs and is beyond the ability of the standard tests for 7th grade. He showed us the last written assignment that was turned in and he said that the closing statement was the strongest one he's seen in years because it actually made him think about the topic instead of just being the usual "and that's why the Chinese have a hard time in the Pacific Northwest."

Should start having a blumpkin more in the RM w/kids thread...

EDIT: I finally know what the 'slamming keys' is a replacement for...I was gone for April Fools so it was lost on me when I came back.

JESUS CHRIST. That's terrible! :haha:


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Books 15/50
Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Women And Power - Mary Beard
Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman (not sure if this counts)

Movies 11/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird


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Books: 13/50:
1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing
2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson
6. Ancient History - David Ives
7. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
8. Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
9. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
10. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
11. To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl
12. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
13. Paris Nocturne - Patrick Modiano

Movies: 17/50:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. What If
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Bad Moms Christmas
8. A Ghost Story
9. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
10. Black Panther
11. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
12. Annihilation
13. Girls Trip
14. The House
15. A Quiet Place
16. License to Wed
17. Kodachrome


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28/50 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
    Moone Boy: The Fish Detective by Chris O'Dowd
    The Last Jedi by Jason Fry

23/50 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 Greatest Showman (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.


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 Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
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Movies
1. Bright (2017)
2. An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
3. Alien: Covenant (2017)
4. Paddington 2 (2018)
5. Inside Man (2006)
6. Baby’s Day Out (1994)
7. Dave Made a Maze (2017)
8. Hidden Figures (2016)
9. Brad’s Status (2017)
10. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
11. Ingrid Goes West (2017)
12. North by Northwest (1959)
13. Primer (2004)
14. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
15. Boy (2010)
16. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
17. Icarus (2017)
18. Eagle vs. Shark (2007)
19. 1922 (2017)
20. Black Panther (2018)
21. Dunkirk (2017)
22. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
23. Cell (2016)
24. The Florida Project (2017)
25. Moonlight (2016)
26. Jumanji (2017)
27. Ratatouille (2007)
28. The Greatest Showman (2017)
29. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Books
Key: AB=Audiobook, TP=Trade Paperback, GN=Graphic Novel
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (AB)
2. What Unites Us by Dan Rather (AB)
3. Aphra (TP)
4. Endurance by Scott Kelly (AB)
5. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
6. The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavich (AB)
7. Hacks by Donna Brazile (AB)
8. Woman Rebel by Peter Bagge (GN)
9. Strange Weather by Joe Hill (AB)
10. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (AB)
11. Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington (bailed at 230/394p)
12: Star Wars: Last Flight of the Harbinger (TP)
13. One Shot by Lee Child (AB)
14. March (Books 1-3) by John Lews (GN)
15. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (AB)
16. Shrill by Lindy West
17. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (AB)
18. Spider-Gwen: Weapon of Choice (TP)
19. A-Force: Warzones (TP)
20. The Trouble with Reality by Brooke Gladstone
21. You’re Saying It Wrong by Ross Petras
22. Bush by Jean Edward Smith (AB)
23. Darth Vader: Imperial Machine (TP)
24. Walking Dead 29: Lines We Cross (TP)
* Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (AB)
25. Educated by Tara Westover (AB)
26. Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs (AB)
27. Time Salvager by Wesley Chu (AB)
28. The Life and Death of Superman by Roger Stern
29. Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates (TP)
30. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer (AB)
31. Saga: Volume 7 (TP)
32. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (AB)
33. The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers (AB)
34. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (AB)

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 Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
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Have you read Wesley Chu's other series? I'm going to be starting the Time Salvager series soonish.


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Have you read Wesley Chu's other series? I'm going to be starting the Time Salvager series soonish.


I haven't read anything else by him. To be honest, I wasn't excited about the universe in Time Salvager. The book was alright, but I probably won't go out of my way to find the others.

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Hmm. Well, if it's anything like the Tao books it turns into a YA book eventually. It started strong but just went on a weird roller coaster that hasn't found it's peak again.


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Books 17/50
Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Women And Power - Mary Beard
Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman (not sure if this counts)
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby

Movies 12/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War


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Books:
01. The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1)
02. Pastime (Spenser, #18)
03. Fletch's Fortune (Fletch, #3)
04. Pacific Vortex! (Dirk Pitt, #1)
05. True Grit
06. Stardust
07. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
08. Norse Mythology
09. The Bat (Harry Hole, #1)
10. Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
11. Death Without Company (Walt Longmire, #2)
12. Firestarter
13. The Terror
14. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
15. The Complete Chronicles of Conan
16. The Jungle Books
17. Tom Sawyer

Movies:
01. Safari (1956)
02. Ice Station Zebra (1968)
03. Knights of the Round Table (1953)
04. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
05. Black Panther (2018)
06. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
07. Baywatch (2017)

Video Game:
01. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Remastered (PS4)
02. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remastered (PS4)


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Books: 13/50:
1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing
2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson
6. Ancient History - David Ives
7. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
8. Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
9. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
10. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
11. To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl
12. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
13. Paris Nocturne - Patrick Modiano

Movies: 21/50:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. What If
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Bad Moms Christmas
8. A Ghost Story
9. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
10. Black Panther
11. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
12. Annihilation
13. Girls Trip
14. The House
15. A Quiet Place
16. License to Wed
17. Kodachrome
18. Downsizing
19. Coco
20. Thor: Ragnarok
21. Disobedience


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28/50 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
    Moone Boy: The Fish Detective by Chris O'Dowd
    The Last Jedi by Jason Fry

26/50 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 Greatest Showman (2017)

If you've seen the Moone Boy television series you have an idea of what the books are about. The first one is basically an extended version of the first episode whereas the second one combines episodes 2 and 3 with another 'extended' story.

The Last Jedi was a good addendum to the film.

Peter Rabbit/Paddington were serviceable kids movies I guess. The Greatest Showman had some good moments in between some that were questionable. The one song "Never Enough" though was amazing. Just...wow.


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Books: 13/50:
1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing
2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson
6. Ancient History - David Ives
7. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
8. Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
9. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
10. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
11. To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl
12. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
13. Paris Nocturne - Patrick Modiano

Movies: 22/50:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. What If
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Bad Moms Christmas
8. A Ghost Story
9. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
10. Black Panther
11. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
12. Annihilation
13. Girls Trip
14. The House
15. A Quiet Place
16. License to Wed
17. Kodachrome
18. Downsizing
19. Coco
20. Thor: Ragnarok
21. Disobedience
22. Tully


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