Mission Complete on those 2018 goals.
Here is some advice that I feel qualified to give. Make your goals for the year some shit you actually want to do. Then you can finish those goals and be like I finished ALL of my goals this year and feel all accomplished when what you really accomplished was doing a whole bunch of a thing you were already going to do. Life Hack.
To recap: I started the year with a medium-sized goal of reading 50 books and seeing 100 unique movies at the theater.
You have read 61 of 50 books in 2018.
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As I mentioned in May, some of these books were short so I went above and beyond for the year. I expect I’ll finish 1-2 more books before 2019 shows its face in these parts.
As of May, I had completed 29/50 books so I maintained the same basic pace for the second half of the year. Books marked ⚢ have wlw content.
Small Country - Gael Faye
⚢ Girl Made of Stars - Ashley Herring Blake
⚢ Ship It - Britta Lundin
⚢ Love & Other Carnivorous Plants - Florence Gonsalves
⚢ The Book of Essie - Meghan MacLean Weir
⚢ When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri
⚢ Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta
⚢ The Miseducation of Cameron Post (This was a re-read)
⚢ Fat Angie - E.E. Charlton-Trujillo (For Pride month, I only read books with WLW content)
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding - Kristin Newman (My girlfriend and I broke up over the conversation that happened when she saw I read this. Turns out we have different views on kids.)
⚢ Ramona Blue - Julie Murphy
⚢ The Other Side of Paradise - Staceyann Chin (I met Staceyann Chin when I was about 20 years old and she told me I should quit smoking so I did.)
⚢ Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst (This is my favorite book I read this year.)
⚢ Solve for i - A. E. Dooland
Console Wars - Blake J. Harris
⚢ Taking Flight - Sierra Maley (This is a reread)
⚢ Georgia Peaches and other Forbidden Fruit (This is a reread)
⚢ Great - Sara Benincasa
⚢ The Gap of Time - Jeanette Winterson
Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie - Harold Schecter
⚢ Visions and Warnings - Katheryn Ewers Bundy
⚢ The Brightsiders - Jen Wilde
⚢ Ive Aberdeens Letter to the World - Ashley Herring Blake (This. Book. Slayed. Me.)
⚢ Leah on the Offbeat - Becky Albertalli
⚢ White Houses - Amy Bloom
We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (The audio from this book is in a Beyonce song)
⚢ People Like Us - Dana Mele
⚢ The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee (The thing is I really liked this book but then remembered nothing about it and so I might read it again even though I read it a month ago. I read it when I was changing medications and I don’t think it stuck.)
⚢ Drum Roll, Please - Lisa Jenn Bigelow
⚢ Pretend Girlfriend - Lily Craig (This book is truly terrible)
Stay with Me - Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (A friend was reading this and mentioned it and so I picked it up and tore through it. Loved it.)
⚢ A Swedish Christmas Tale - A.E. Radley
Total ⚢ count for the year: 47
Movies watched in the theater this year: 100*
These are (still) not in order because no matter how I added them, Google Keep did whatever it wanted with the information. I have used the following rating system for your and my enjoyment:
✪ - Not Worth the Free Ticket
✪ ✪ - I don’t hate it
✪ ✪ ✪ - I’d watch it again on Netflix
✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ - I already watched it again (or plan to before it leaves the theater)
✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ - This Movie Has EVERYTHING
*I fell asleep during Wreck-It Ralph 2 because of my medication but I think I slept for less than my threshold of 20 minutes. Because I am not sure, I am seeing another movie tonight just to be really honest with myself and all of you.(Rachel)
Book Club ✪ ✪
Solo: A Star Wars Story ✪ ✪ ✪
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
Tag ✪ ✪
Hearts Beat Loud ✪ ✪ ✪
Ant-Man and The Wasp ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
Won’t You Be My Neighbor ✪ ✪ ✪
Hereditary ✪
The First Purge ✪ ✪ ✪
Skyscraper ✪ ✪ ✪
Three Identical Strangers ✪ ✪ ✪
Leave No Trace ✪ ✪ ✪
Sorry to Bother You ✪ ✪ ✪
The Spy Who Dumped Me ✪ ✪ ✪
BlacKkKlansman ✪ ✪ ✪
Mission: Impossible - Fallout ✪ ✪
Mile 22 ✪
Crazy Rich Asians ✪ ✪ ✪
Alpha ✪ ✪
Searching ✪ ✪ ✪
Peppermint ✪
White Boy Rick ✪
The Predator ✪ ✪ ✪
A Simple Favor ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
The House With A Clock In Its Walls ✪ ✪ ✪
Hell Fest ✪
Night School ✪ ✪
Venom ✪ ✪ ✪
A Star is Born ✪ ✪ ✪
First Man ✪ ✪ ✪
Monsters And Men ✪
Bad Times At The El Royale ✪ ✪ ✪
The Miseducation of Cameron Post ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
Collette ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
Smallfoot ✪ ✪ ✪
Halloween ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
The Nun ✪ ✪
Uncle Drew ✪
The Oath ✪ ✪ ✪
The Hate U Give ✪ ✪ ✪
Bohemian Rhapsody ✪
Nobody’s Fool ✪
Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch ✪
Overlord ✪ ✪ ✪
Instant Family ✪ ✪
Green Book ✪ ✪ ✪
Ralph Breaks the Internet* ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
The Wife ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
Spider-Man:Into the Spider-Verse ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
Anna And The Apocalypse ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
Lizzie ✪ ✪ ✪
Hotel Artemis ✪ ✪ ✪
Adrift ✪
Ocean’s 8 ✪ ✪ ✪
Breaking In ✪
Pope Francis ✪ ✪
Incredibles 2 ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
The Meg ✪ ✪ ✪
