year-end lists
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I’ve been very transparent about the fact that I’m not well-versed in cinematography. I don’t know a lot about film theory. This stuff just isn’t my forte. But that doesn’t mean I can’t tell a good movie from a bad one. I know what bad acting looks like. I took theater for a year. But,
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You know, 2018 was actually a really good reading year for me. I didn’t read quite as many books as I have in previous years, but the quality was much better overall. I feel like I really did a good job of sticking to my reading resolutions. They were very effective in ensuring mostly positive
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Music critics have either labeled 2018 a mediocre year for music or a terrible one. Personally, I found this to be a good year for music… if you look in the right places. The charts are a nightmare, but my playlists are not. However, even I found some albums to be just god awful. Even
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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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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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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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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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