year-end lists

  • I’ve been pretty lucky this year to not have been disappointed by too much media. I’ve gotten a lot better at choosing things I know I’m going to enjoy or recognizing tropes I don’t like in plot summaries and avoiding said media. In fact, I’d argue that I’ve had an overall good year for music,

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  • I recently began the arduous task of writing and posting my year-end lists. I started with a new addition this year, The Top 5 Best and Worst Songs of 2018. Today, I’m continuing with another new addition, The Top 5 Best and Worst Live Shows of 2018. I’ve been very fortunate this year to have

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  • Well everyone, it’s that time of year again. It’s time for all the best and worst lists to start pouring out. Last year, I did all my year-end lists over three weeks. I did lists for books, albums, TV shows, and movies. For each of those, I did a best, worst, and most disappointing list.

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  • End of the Year DNF List

    Despite my grueling reading year, I have a wonderful announcement to make: I completed my reading challenge! That’s right, I read 100 books this year (several of which were graphic novels and poetry collections)! To celebrate, I am doing nothing. However, I do still have a few books I need to talk about before the

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  • My Top 6 Best Books of 2017

    After three weeks of list after list after list, we’ve finally come to the end. And that final list is my top six books of 2017. Even though I’ve had a mediocre reading year, I still read some absolutely fantastic books this year. In order to make this list, I simply had to have read

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  • My Top 5 Best Movies of 2017

    You all know my tale of woe. I didn’t watch many movies in 2017. And yet, I still watched enough to make a worst, disappointing, and best list. Today, we wrap up my 2017 movie journey with the top five best movies of the year. As usual, in order to qualify, I simply had to

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  • Up next on my Best of the Year accolades rampage is the top seven shows that really made my 2017. Why top seven? Well, there were seven shows I really got into this year and need to honor. In order to qualify for this list, the show had to air new episodes this year (though

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  • My Top 5 Best Series of 2017

    I wasn’t originally planning on making this list. However, my honorable mentions list was getting out of hand and I had to do something. And so I decided to create a whole new list celebrating all the great series I read in 2017. Well, not all of them. I’m only including series I read for

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  • My Top 5 Best Albums of 2017

    As the new year approaches ever closer and the state of the world gets progressively worse, we could use a little positivity. And what could be a better way to do that than to share all the things I truly loved this year? As awful as 2017 was, it was filled with excellent media (music,

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  • Well, now we’ve come to the last of my most disappointing lists. We’ve exhausted the albums, TV shows, and movies that didn’t live up to my expectations, so now it’s time to talk about the top seven books that fell from grace in my esteem for them. Why top seven? Simply because seven books I

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