50 books. 50 movies. One year - 2024 edition

Stronginthearm · Feb 26, 2024

February update.

Stronginthearm - 10/50 books 04/50 movies

Books:

1. The Outsider by Stephen King
2. Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole
3. Star Trek Voyager Homecoming by Christie Golden
4. Star Trek Voyager The Farther Shore by Christie Golden
5. Camino Island by John Grisham
6. The High King's Tomb by Kirsten Britain
7. Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
8. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Movies:

1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. Death on the Nile.
3. A Haunting in Venice

The FuzzPig · Feb 29, 2024

February update

7. Little women
8. Little women
9. Tarzan of the apes

Only two books read this month. It took me quite a while to recover from my jet lag on coming back from my holiday. For around two weeks, every time I got in bed I'd fall asleep straight away. Great for my sleep, but not so great for my reading.

MadnB · Feb 29, 2024

February

MadnB - 11/50 books | 15/50 movies

Books:

10. One Hundred Years of Solitude
11. Rashomon and Other Stories

Movies:

14. Only Murders in the Building Season 2
15. Attack on Titan - The Final Chapters

Spectromixer · Feb 29, 2024

Spectromixer - 9/50 Books | 25/50 Movies

Feburary Update

Books:

The Poppy War by RF Kuang
The Poppy War by RF Kuang*
The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

*over 500 pages counted twice

Movies:

The Lobster (2015) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Under the Skin (2013) dir. Jonathan Glazer
The Twilight Samurai (2002) dir. Yoji Yamada
Lover, Stalker, Killer (2024) dir. Sam Hobkinson
My Winnipeg (2007) dir. Guy Maddin
Madame Web (2024) dir. S.J. Clarkson
8½ (1963) dir. Federico Fellini
Cinema Paradiso (1988) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore

Amroth · Feb 29, 2024

February update:

Amroth – 08/50 books | 11/50 movies

Books:

1. Glassmannen by Anders de la Motte
2. Ved porten til helvete: Trolldomsprosessene i Finnmark by Rune Blix Hagen
3. Lese lyrikk by Per Thomas Andersen
4. Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson

Movies:

1. Grounded II: Making the Last of Us Part II – Dir. Jason Bertrand, Matt Chandronait, Ryan O'Donnell and Cesar Quintero
2. Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire – Dir. Zack Znyder
3. The Marvels – Dir. Nia DaCosta
4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – Dir. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
5. The Batman – Dir. Matt Reeves
6. Top Gun: Maverick – Dir. Joseph Kosinski
7. Black Adam – Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra

Re-reads:

1. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (read by Rosamund Pike)

eZipsis · Feb 29, 2024

February updates.

eZipsis - 03/50 books | 23/50 movies

Books
3. Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman

Movies
February
14. Wish - 2023
15. Stalker - 1979
16. Millennium Actress - 2001
17. It Follows - 2014
18. The Revenant - 2015
19. Robot Dreams - 2023
20. The Zone of Interest - 2023
21. The Iron Claw - 2023
22. Poor Things - 2023
23. Dune Part Two - 2024

Great month for movies for me. I was able to watch some really great ones.
Still need to get back in to the book groove though.

chrominance · Mar 1, 2024

February update:

chrominance - 5/50 books | 7/50 movies

Books:

Agency by William Gibson

Inversions by Iain M. Banks

Movies:

The Zone of Interest (2023)

Poor Things (2023)

Elemental (2023)

Perfect Days (2023)

On the book front, things are a little slow. I think I enjoyed Inversions more than Agency; it's a pretty neat Culture book in that it's not about the Culture at all, and yet knowledge of the Culture feels mandatory to really understand what's going on in it. I mostly read a chapter or two of a book before bed, so maybe at this rate I won't make 50, but that's okay; this is still way more books than I've read in years.

Lots of catching up on last year in terms of movies (though technically Perfect Days didn't get wide release here until earlier this month). Not a bad movie in the bunch; I appreciated them all for completely different reasons, and I'd happily recommend all of them.

TestMonkey · Mar 1, 2024

February update

TestMonkey - 18/50 books | 06/50 movies

Books:

Supernova Era by Cixin Liu

You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory by Ruta Sepetys

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition edited by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier

Movies:

Kevin James: Irregardless

Weird Al: Never Off Beat

Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All

Not Asleep · Mar 4, 2024

February update

Not Asleep - 7/50 Books | 13/50 Movies

Books

Opinions - Roxane Gay ★★★★
Extremely Online - Taylor Lorenz ★★★★
More Than I Had Imagined - John Blake ★★★

Movies

They Called Him Mostly Harmless (2024) ★★★★
Brief Tender Light (2024) ★★★
Swiss Army Man (2016) ★★★★1/2

I think it wants to be profound but even if it isn't, Swiss Army Man (directed by the Daniels) was delightfully bizarre and unpredictable. It was so over the top and creative and just WENT FOR IT. Absolutely worth the watch.

I'm such a fan of Daniel Radcliffe because he makes such strange choices. He did the big starring role thing as a kid and now as an adult he takes all the off-beat roles. And it seems like he's having a blast.

weemadarthur · Mar 4, 2024

February update

weemadarthur - 14/50 Books | 20/50 Movies

Books

The Farthest Shore, by Ursula le Guin

The Untold Story, by Genevieve Cogman

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Vol I and II by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

ditto, long book

Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve By Stanley Rosenberg

Wicked Plants, by Amy Stewart

Historical Heroines: One Hundred Women You Should Know About, by Michelle Rosenberg

The Princess Saves Herself in This One, by Amanda Lovelace

That Self-Same Metal, by Brittany N. Williams

Coin for a Dream, by Mae Adams

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, by Nghi Vo

Movies

You are My Glory [tv]

Kiss Goblin [tv]

Sherlock Jr. (1924)

Destined to Meet You [tv]

Rizzoli & Isles season two [tv]

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)

Bulletproof Monk (2003)

Austenland (2013)

Promise in the Summer [tv]

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019) [docu]

Mom! Don't Do That [tv]

v1n1c1uS · Mar 6, 2024

February Update

v1n1c1uS - 14/50 books | 11/50 Movies

February Update

Books

12. Great Teacher Onizuka - Volume 10, 11 and 12 - Toru Fujisawa - 05/02
13. Great Teacher Onizuka - Volume 13, 14 and 15 - Toru Fujisawa - 15/02
14. Great Teacher Onizuka - Volume 16, 17 and 18 - Toru Fujisawa - 25/02

Movies

3. Anatomy of the Fall(2023) - 17/02

TestMonkey · Mar 16, 2024

February update leaders

Bookworms:

TestMonkey 18

v1n1c1uS 14

weemadarthur 14

MadnB 11

Stronginthearm 10

Spectromixer 9

The FuzzPig 9

Amroth 8

Not Asleep 7

chrominance 5

Movie Buffs:

Spectromixer 25

eZipsis 23

weemadarthur 20

MadnB 15

Not Asleep 13

Amroth 11

v1n1c1uS 11

MrDaravon 8

JetEagle 7

chrominance 7

Stronginthearm · Mar 31, 2024

March update.

Stronginthearm - 11/50 books 04/50 movies

Books:

1. Final Girls Support Group by Grady Hendrix

Movies:

No movies in march.

MadnB · Mar 31, 2024

March

MadnB - 15/50 books | 19/50 movies

Books:

12. Competenze pedagogiche, psicopedagogiche e didattico metodologiche
13. The House of the Spirits
14. From the New World
15. Children of Time

Movies:

16. Fargo
17. Manchester by the Sea
18. Being John Malkovich
19. Dune: Part Two

Amroth · Mar 31, 2024

March update:

Amroth – 12/50 books | 16/50 movies

Books:

1. Sharpe's Command by Bernard Cornwell
2. Island on Fire by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe
3. A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett
4. Defiant by Brandon Sanderson

Movies:

1. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom – Dir. James Wan
2. Elemental – Dir. Peter Sohn
3. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Dir. David Yates
4. Uncharted – Dir. Ruben Fleischer
5. Godzilla vs. Kong – Dir. Adam Wingard

Re-reads:

1. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (read by Rosamund Pike)

excelsiorlef · Mar 31, 2024

Oh dope

Well I'm well passed 50 new movies (somewhere north of 100)

And I'm about halfway to 50 books.

List to come later

chrominance · Mar 31, 2024

March update:

chrominance - 7/50 books | 11/50 movies

Books:

Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks

Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds

Movies:

Prey (2022)

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982)

Polite Society (2023)

Lately I've been watching more TV, so books especially have fallen by the wayside. It doesn't help that I'm not really sure what I want to read next; I've been going through the Culture series but I kind of want a break, but have nothing else on deck really. Movies are mostly keeping pace at least.

Spectromixer · Mar 31, 2024

Spectromixer - 15/50 Books | 35/50 Movies

March Update

Books:

The Dragon Republic by RF Kuang
The Dragon Republic by RF Kuang*
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Jade Shards by Fonda Lee
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto

*over 500 pages counted twice

Movies:

Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve
Poor Things (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) dir. Benh Zeitlin
The Zone of Interest (2023) dir. Jonathan Glazer
Sling Blade (1996) dir. Billy Bob Thornton
The Wayward Cloud (2005) dir. Tsai Ming-liang
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) dir. Justine Triet
Damsel (2024) dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) dir. Gil Kenan
Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire (2024) dir. Adam Wingard

weemadarthur · Apr 1, 2024

March update

weemadarthur - 26/50 Books | 25/50 Movies

Books
Finished a couple books I've been reading for years plus a bunch of shorter fiction to break it up.

Skip to the End, by Molly James

How to Find Love in a Bookshop, by Veronica Henry

Bookshops & Bonedust, by Travis Baldree

The Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed, by Noreen Mughees

Tell the Machine Goodnight, by Katie Williams

African Europeans: An Untold History, by Olivette Otele

Pomeranian Puzzle, by Molly Maple

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, by Jerome K. Jerome

SPIDER WOMAN - The Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters, by Gladys A. Reichard

Friday Black, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Nibelungenlied, Unknown

Cacti and Succulents for Cold Climates, by Leo J. Chance

Movies

Isekai Isekaya Nobu [tv]

My Cuteness is About to Expire?! [tv]

Chungking Express (1994)

Please be at Ease, Mr. Ling [tv]

Cute Bodyguard [tv]

eZipsis · Apr 1, 2024

March updates.

eZipsis - 04/50 books | 27/50 movies

Books
4. Fugitive Telemetry: The Murderbot Diaries Martha Wells

Movies
March
24. Strays - 2023
25. Rogue - 2007
26. Crawl - 2019
27. Meg 2: The Trench - 2023

Very light month for me.

TestMonkey · Apr 1, 2024

March update

TestMonkey - 26/50 books | 14/50 movies

Books:

K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches by Tyler Kepner

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World by Gaia Vince

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill

The Archer by Paulo Coelho

Counterweight by Djuna

Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

Movies:

Einstein and the Bomb

Hellraiser: Judgement

Oddball

Emesis Blue

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Last Flag Flying

Orion and the Dark

Inside the Mind of a Cat

Not Asleep · Apr 1, 2024

March update

Not Asleep - 11/50 Books | 21/50 Movies

Books

Endgame - Omid Scobie ★★★★
The ExVangelicals - Sarah McCammon ★★★★
Your Medical Mind - Jerome Groopman, Pamela Hartzband ★★★★

Movies

Starship Troopers (1997) ★★★1/2
The Truth About Jim (2024) ★★1/2
Locked In (2023) ★★★1/2
The Marvels (2023) ★★★★
Wonka (2023) ★★★★
Mean Girls (2004) ★★★
The Bling Ring (2013) ★★★
The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist (2013) ★★★★

LazyLain · Apr 2, 2024

Count me in, I guess. I've started walking to work, which affords me some extra time for audiobooks. And starting yesterday, I intend to watch one movie per day all the way through July... gonna be working my way through the Bond franchise in release order, with a smattering of non-Bond movies from the same time periods mixed in to help break things up a bit. I'll treat this as my "March" update, so what I watched yesterday will be saved for next month's update.

LazyLain - 6/50 Books | 33/50 Movies

Books

Atlas of AI, by Kate Crawford

Punished by Rewards, by Alfie Kohn

Sex and Satisfaction: Erotic Stories, edited by Cathryn Cooper

Memoirs and Misinformation, by Jim Carrey

Filthy Rich, by James Patterson

Unmasked, by Paul Holes

Movies

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

When the Wind Blows (1986)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Malcolm X (1992)

Atlantis (1913)

The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1917)

A Page of Madness (1926)

Pandora's Box (1929)

Safety Last (1923)

Metropolis (1927)

The Brown Bunny (2003)

North by Northwest (1959)

Ocean's Eleven (1960)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Knife in the Water (1962)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Lord of the Flies (1963)

From Russia With Love (1963)

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Goldfinger (1964)

The Married Woman (1964)

Thunderball (1965)

For a Few Dollars More (1965)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Sing a Song of Sex (1967)

Casino Royale (1967)

Deliverance (1972)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Live and Let Die (1973)

The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)

KillerBEA · Apr 3, 2024

50 books. 50 movies. One year - 2024 edition

Doubt I will get 50 books, 50 movies seems more likely now. Will aim for 20 books to beat out 2023. KillerBEA- 0/20 Books | 64/50 Movies Books: [0/20] The Mountain is You [In Progress] Wayfarer's Redemption [In Progress] Movies [64/50] [Jan] Madea's Witness Protection [Jan] Anacondas: The...

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March Update
Lots of horror and comedy, since that's what my girlfriend likes. Dungeons and Dragons being the only one I chose that we watched together. Despite it being my "nerd movie" she liked it. Kind of funny watching Scary Movie and then Scream, because it makes everything in Scream 1 and 2 more comedic instead of gruesome.

Movies [28/50]
[Jan] Madea's Witness Protection
[Jan] Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
[Jan] Scary Movie
[Jan] Scary Movie 2
[Jan] Scary Movie 3
[Jan] Blockers
[Jan] Stan Helsing
[Jan] Tucker and Dale vs Evil
[Jan] Kickin it Old Skool
[Jan] Step Brothers
[Jan] American Werewolf in London
[Jan] Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
[Jan] Jurassic World: Dominion
[Jan] The Forever Purge
[Jan] Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
[Feb] Little Giants
[Feb] The Little Rascals
[Feb] White Chicks
[Feb] Ride Along
[Mar] Jeeper's Creepers
[Mar] Jeeper's Creepers 2
[Mar] Trick (2019)
[Mar] The Funhouse Massacre
[Mar] A Haunted House
[Mar] Dead Mary
[Mar] Killers
[Mar] Scream
[Mar] Scream 2

The FuzzPig · Apr 3, 2024

March update

10. Death on the Nile
11. The Princess and the goblin
12. Farmer boy
13. Making magic vol 6
14. Little men
15. The return of tarzan
16. The ABC murders

Read alot more this month. Mostly just working through the collections I got for Christmas.

TestMonkey · Apr 17, 2024

March update leaders

Bookworms:

TestMonkey 26

weemadarthur 26

The FuzzPig 16

MadnB 15

Spectromixer 15

v1n1c1uS 14

Amroth 12

Not Asleep 11

Stronginthearm 11

chrominance 7

Movie Buffs:

Spectromixer 35

KillerBEA 28

eZipsis 27

weemadarthur 25

Not Asleep 21

MadnB 19

Amroth 16

TestMonkey 14

chrominance 11

LazyLain 11

v1n1c1uS 11

Stronginthearm · Apr 26, 2024

April update.

Stronginthearm - 17/50 books 07/50 movies

Books:

1. Skulduggery Pleasant: A Mind Full of Murder by Derek Landy
2. System Collapse by Martha Wells
3. The Naughtiest Girl in the School by Enid Blyton
4. The Naughtiest Girl Again by Enid Blyton
5. Alien: The Official Novelization by Alan Dean Foster
6. The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor by Enid Blyton

Movies:

1. AVP: Alien vs Predator
2. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
3. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

MadnB · Apr 30, 2024

April

MadnB - 20/50 books | 26/50 movies

Books:

16. Children of Ruin
17. Cloak of feathers
18. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
19. Zia Antonia Sapeva di Menta
20. Almeno il Cappello

Movies:

20. Hazbin Hotel Season 1
21. Poor Things
22. The Favourite
23. Life of Pi
24. They Call Him Jeeg
25. Old Boy
26. Raging Bull

Spectromixer · Apr 30, 2024

Spectromixer - 19/50 Books | 52/50 Movies

April Update

Books

Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff
Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff*
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu*

*over 500 pages counted twice

Movies:

Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica
What Jennifer Did (2024) dir. Jenny Popplewell
Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins
Civil War (2024) dir. Alex Garland
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024) dir. Zack Snyder
Call Me by Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) dir. Nagisa Ōshima
Spy x Family Code: White (2023) dir. Takashi Katagiri
Stopmotion (2023) dir. Robert Morgan
Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells
Ready or Not (2019) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) dir. Morgan Neville
Abigail (2024) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Hanagatami (2017) dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Argylle (2024) dir. Matthew Vaughn
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) dir. Marielle Heller
Heaven Knows What (2014) dir. Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie

eZipsis · Apr 30, 2024

April updates.

eZipsis - 04/50 books | 32/50 movies

Movies
April
28. Meet the Robinsons - 2007
29. Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp - 2024
30. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - 2023
31. Cujo - 1983
32. Soul - 2020

Mostly just movies with the kids this month.

chrominance · May 1, 2024

April update:

chrominance - 7/50 books | 14/50 movies

Movies:

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Dune: Part Two (2024)

Yuru Camp: The Movie (2022)

At this point I wonder if I should just give up, lol. I'm doing a much better job keeping up with the TV challenge than I am here!

TestMonkey · May 1, 2024

April update

TestMonkey - 35/50 books | 18/50 movies

Books:

Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee

Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer

Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization by Coco Krumme

A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape by Joe Pera

Half the World by Joe Abercrombie

Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs by Ina Park

The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

Movies:

Liz Miele: Murder Sheets

Neal Brennan: Crazy Good

Akaash Singh: Gaslit

Brad Williams: Starfish

Amroth · May 1, 2024

April update:

Amroth – 15/50 books | 18/50 movies

Books:

1. Hyperthief by Brandon Sanderson
2. Demon Daughter by Lois McMaster Bujold
3. Frisk nok – håndbok i immunforsvar by Anne Spurkland

Movies:

1. Dune – Dir. Denis Villeneuve
2. The Little Mermaid – Dir. Rob Marshall

Re-reads:

1. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan (read by Rosamund Pike)
2. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (read by Stephen Fry)
3. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (read by Stephen Fry)

Got the collected works of Sherlock Holmes read by Stephen Fry for one credit on Audible – almost 72 hours.

The FuzzPig · May 1, 2024

April update

17. Asterix
18. The princess and Curdie
19. Little House on the prairie
20. Jo's boys

Didn't read that much this month.
I've been reading the asterix comics for a while now, and finally finished up to in Belgium, which was the last one written by the original two creators. Don't know if I'll read any more, I do like to read a comic every so often, so we'll see.

KillerBEA · May 2, 2024

April Update:

50 books. 50 movies. One year - 2024 edition

Doubt I will get 50 books, 50 movies seems more likely now. Will aim for 20 books to beat out 2023. KillerBEA- 0/20 Books | 64/50 Movies Books: [0/20] The Mountain is You [In Progress] Wayfarer's Redemption [In Progress] Movies [64/50] [Jan] Madea's Witness Protection [Jan] Anacondas: The...

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+14 Movies

[Apr] Dead 7
[Apr] Spiderman: Homecoming
[Apr] Goosebumps
[Apr] Friday the 13th
[Apr] Friday the 13th 2
[Apr] Friday the 13th 3
[Apr] Friday the 13th The Final Chapter
[Apr] Tammy
[Apr] Torture Chamber
[Apr] Jurassic Park: The Lost World
[Apr] Jurassic Park III
[Apr] Nightmare Before Christmas
[Apr] Body
[Apr] Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black pearl

weemadarthur · May 2, 2024

April update

weemadarthur - 32/50 books | 31/50 movies

Books

The Dispossessed, by Ursula le Guin
Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
Into the Riverlands, by Nghi Vo
Field Guide to Peppers, by Janie Lamson, Dave DeWitt
The Enchanted Island of Yew, by L. Frank Baum
Shubeik Lubeik, by Deena Mohamed

Movies

Blinded Kiss [tv]
Castaway Diva [tv]
Mr. Malcom's List (2022)
Summer Stock (1950)
Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood (2018)
Luther season one [tv]

LazyLain · May 3, 2024

April update:

LazyLain - 4/50 Books | 29/50 Movies

Book:

Memoirs and Misinformation, by Jim Carrey

Movies:

North by Northwest (1959)
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Knife in the Water (1962)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
From Russia With Love (1963)
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Married Woman (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
Casino Royale (1967)
Deliverance (1972)
You Only Live Twice (1967)

Movies (Not counted towards total):

Dr. No (1962, Rewatch)
Breakdown (1997, Rewatch)
The Professor (1967, Short film)
Alphaville (1965, DNF)

Took a bit of a break from my "movie a day" goal, but still making solid progress on that front. Definitely need to pick up the pace with books if I hope to reach the target of 50 though.

If anyone's curious about my Bond rankings so far, I would say that my favorite is Goldfinger and my least favorite is surprisingly not Casino Royale but in fact Thunderball.

Not Asleep · May 5, 2024

April Update

Not Asleep - 15/50 Books | 26/50 Movies

Books

All The Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley ★★★★
Carmageddon - Daniel Knowles ★★★★
Sociopath: A Memoir - Patric Gagne ★★★★1/2
What an Owl Knows - Jennifer Ackerman ★★★★
Extremely Hardcore - Zoë Schiffer ★★★★
The Country of the Blind - Andrew Leland ★★★★★

Movies

Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (2004) ★★★★
Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion (2024) ★★★★
Onision: In Real Life (2021) ★★★
The Power of Film (2024) ★★★★1/2
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) ★★★1/2
What Jennifer Did (2024) ★★★
Unlocked: A Jail Experience (2024) ★★★★1/2
The People's Joker (2024) ★★★★1/2

TestMonkey · May 18, 2024

April update leaders

Bookworms:

TestMonkey 35

weemadarthur 32

The FuzzPig 20

MadnB 20

Spectromixer 19

Stronginthearm 17

Amroth 15

Not Asleep 15

v1n1c1uS 14

chrominance 7

Movie Buffs:

Spectromixer 52

KillerBEA 41

eZipsis 31

weemadarthur 31

LazyLain 29

Not Asleep 26

MadnB 26

Amroth 18

TestMonkey 18

chrominance 14

Stronginthearm · May 29, 2024

May update.

Stronginthearm - 27/50 books 07/50 movies

1. Caliban's War by James SA Corey
2. Abaddon's Gate by James SA Corey
3. Cibola Burn by James SA Corey
4. The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan
5. The Powder Mage novella collection #1 by Brian McClellan
6. The Mad Lancers by Brian McClellan
7. The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
8. In The Field Marshal's Shadow by Brian McClellan
9. Murder Road by Simone St. James
10. If It Bleeds by Stephen King

Extra note: According to goodreads, I've read 9634 pages so far this year and I only read 11,496 pages in total last year.

MadnB · May 30, 2024

May

MadnB - 24/50 books | 28/50 movies

Books:

21. Children of Memory
22. Before the Coffee Gets Cold
23. Fai Bei Sogni
24. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Movies:

27. The Menu
28. Booksmart

eZipsis · May 30, 2024

May updates.

eZipsis - 05/50 books | 42/50 movies

Books
5. System Collapse: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

Movies
May
33. Godzilla Minus One - 2023
34. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - 2024
35. Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire - 2024
36. Thelma The Unicorn - 2024
37. Expend4bles - 2023
38. Deathstalker - 1893
39. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - 2024
40. The Fall Guy - 2024
41. The Muppet Movie - 1979
42. The Great Muppet Caper - 1981

I really need to get back on the book bandwagon. I've been playing a lot of games in my spare time instead. Went all the way through Animal Well and now on to Axiom Verge 2. I've also been listening to a lot of music at work instead of normally listening to an audiobook.

Edit - I forgot a movie. Godzilla x Kong, it really was unmemorable.

LazyLain · May 30, 2024

May update:

LazyLain - 6/50 Books | 33/50 Movies

Books:

Filthy Rich, by James Patterson
Unmasked, by Paul Holes

Movies:

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)

Slow progress this month, though I did at least keep chipping away at Bond. OHMSS was really good, Diamonds Are Forever wasn't (though not as bad as Thunderball), and Live and Let Die/The Man With the Golden Gun were just fine but pretty fun.

Excuse me · May 30, 2024

I'm doing pretty good this year around. I have read minimum of 200 pages a week, but I probably average way higher. Overall 25 books read so far. Half of them Star Trek books that are most of the time fun and quick reads. But soon as my vacation starts my book count will slow down since I'll start reading more difficult and/or longer books.

haven't kept track of my watched movies, probably less then 10.

Spectromixer · May 31, 2024

Spectromixer - 26/50 Books | 64/50 Movies

May Update

Books:

The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang*
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by Fred Rogers
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo*

*over 500 pages counted twice

Movies:

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) dir. Wes Ball
Cria! (1976) dir. Carlos Saura
Monkey Man (2024) dir. Dev Patel
Late Night with the Devil (2023) dir. Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes
Men (2022) dir. Alex Garland
Casting Blossoms into the Sky (2012) dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) dir. Halina Reijn
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) dir. George Miller
The Fall Guy (2024) dir. David Leitch
Bob Marley: One Love (2024) dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green
Kuroneko (1968) dir. Kaneto Shindō
The Whale (2022) dir. Darren Aronofsky

Amroth · May 31, 2024

May update:

Amroth – 17/50 books | 18/50 movies

Books:

1. Store stygge dikt by Ruth Lillegraven
2. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal (read by Walter Dixon)

Re-reads:

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (read by Stephen Fry)
2. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (read by Stephen Fry)

hwarang · Jun 1, 2024

2024 |

Books (1/50)
1. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Vol. 1) - ★★★★★ | Probably the best volume out of the trilogy.

Movies (1/50)
1. Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince of Darkness (Anime) - ★★ | I still think it's worth a watch for Nadesico fans despite all the hate it gets.

Comics (3/50)
1. Kill Six Billion Demons (Vol 1 - K6B) - ★★★★
2. Kill Six Billion Demons (Vol 2 - Wielder of Names) - ★★★★
3. Kill Six Billion Demons (Vol 3 - Seeker of Thrones) - ★★★★★

weemadarthur · Jun 1, 2024

weemadarthur - 36/50 books | 40/50 movies
May Update

Books

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald, by Judith Tick
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Summertide, by Charlotte English
Calling the Moon, by various authors

Movies

Barry season one [tv]
Barry season two [tv]
Campus Rhythm (1943)
Barry season three [tv]
The Outlaw (1943)
The Booksellers (2019) [docu]
Art House [docu]
The General (1926)
Brother Trap (2024) [tv]

The FuzzPig · Jun 1, 2024

May update

21. The beasts of tarzan
22. Five little pigs
23. The princess of the revels
24. On the banks of plum creek

MrDaravon · Jun 1, 2024

MrDaravon - 02/50 Books | 16/50 Movies

May Update

Books: None

Movies

The Killer (5/18/24) - ★★★★ 1/2
The Outlaws (5/19/24) - ★★★★ 1/2
The Roundup (5/19/24) - ★★★★
One-Percent Warrior (5/20/24) - ★★★ 1/2
Born To Fight (1984) (5/20/24) - ★★ 1/2
Police Story 2 (5/21/24) - ★★★
Knockabout (5/30/24) - ★★★ 1/2

I'm back! I actually have been thinking a lot about this thread and getting back into it, the only reasons I haven't had any updates since February:

I spent like 250 hours in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth for a few months, which used up most of what would have been my movie watch time
Work has been bonkers (which used up the remainder of my normal movie time)
I *HAVE* been reading, but I've been re-reading the Wheel of Time books in full from when I was much younger to catch up to where I left off; they're huge books and I've read the ones I'm on before so I can't count them for this challenge. I just got to the first one that's new for me so I should have some activity coming up for June on that front. Looking forward to getting to count these as two books for the challenge lol

I still have little faith that I'm hitting 50 Books, but I have been reading more (against just doesn't count for the challenge) and I did finally buy a Kindle and I already have a small library on there from a variety of sources; so I'm hoping to hit at least 25 books which will be way up from the 0 books I've read the last several years.

50 books. 50 movies. One year - 2024 edition

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