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mason. xxviii. books & etc----- incredible, how a slip could become a freefall and a freefall could become a hell where we lived on as ghosts in a haunted world. ------Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

[darthvaders]

SAOIRSE RONAN as Christine McPherson in ‘Lady Bird’ (2017)

[gaelgarcia]

Ana de Armas as Joi in Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

[sersi]

You think everything sounds like a bad idea.

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) dir. Ron Howard

[dcfilmblr]

Tonight, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows.

Watchmen (2009) dir. Zack Snyder

[freckles-and-books]

First book of the year

[collinear]

How should I have told you? “Oh, your grandma’s on the roof”.

THE FAREWELL 2019 – Lulu Wang

[filmgifs]

I suspect foul play… and I have eliminated no suspects.

Knives Out (2019) dir. Rian Johnson

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Captain Marvel #11 | Kelly Thompson & Carmen Carnero

sometimes comics are good.

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It’s January 2nd, 2020 and I am going to attempt to take book/reading/media blogging seriously. We’ll see how long this lasts. It’s an easy thing to say, on winter break, that I’m going to actively contribute content to the world. But once I go back to work next week, I know it will consume my every waking moment in the way that teaching inevitably does, no matter how many boundaries you try to set to create that mystical “work-life-balance” that is reserved for people who made smarter career choices than I did.

Sorry, where was I?

Right. The first few days of January has everyone in any reading community talking about goals and resolutions. I’ve set my Goodreads goal as 100, like I do every year until it looks completely untenable and I end up lowering it in December. Here’s where I have run into a problem every year. Do I count comics towards my Goodreads reading goal? Goodreads certainly doesn’t make it easy. It’s hard to search for single issue comics a lot of the time (because Goodreads search engine is--how do I put this kindly?--it’s not great, friend.) I think my biggest problem with just counting them towards my goal is that it falsely inflates my numbers. “Mason read 700 books this year?! Wow!” That looks cool until you realize that 710 of those books are 20-page comics with like 500 words across the pages tops.

So, my plan this year is to add comics to my count as TPBS. That always feels a little less like cheating. So, instead of “Captain Marvel #1-5″ I’ll just add “Captain Marvel Vol 1 (2019).”

One major problem with this is that, unlike lots of other kinds of books, TPBS don’t get added to the Goodreads database very far in advance--if they get added at all. Currently, I have give TPBS in my currently reading section, but when I searched for Basketful of Heads to add, they only have the three issues that have currently been released (despite the fact that 6 or 7 issues have been solicited--but that’s another matter entirely).

So, maybe I will just add the first book of the TPB until the actual trade gets listed. Though, another problem with this is that it will inevitably mean I have about 20 books on my currently read list at any given point and that seems like a lot.

I wish there was a better way to keep track of comics with a community built in as solid as Goodreads. I need a Goodreads but for comics.

Is there anyone out there who has found a solid way to add single issue comics into their reading count for the year? Someone help me out. Maybe it’s just the kind of thing that there really is no perfect answer to.

[movie-gifs]

The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

[henricavyll]

No, this is different. She’s after me. She’s trying to replace me!

BLACK SWAN (2010) dir. Darren Aronofsky

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Captain Marvel #8 | Kelly Thompson & Carmen Carnero

[dailyanimatedpoc]

The Prince of Egypt (1998)

[quiet-ophelia]

“In the woods the Tox is still wild. No girls for it to pick apart, so it got into everything else. Out there it blossoms and spreads with a kind of joy. Unbridled and vicious and free.” Hi can all YA please aspire to be as literary and wonderful as WILDER GIRLS? Thanks.

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“I cannot agree with this punitive bent of Philosophy, though I have ever regarded it as a Truth that Pain can yield worthy literary Sentiment, but can it not also give way to the utter tripe of the Sentimental?

—“The Peculiar Narrative of the the Remarkable Particulars in the Life of Orrinda Thomas” from The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead by Chanelle Benz

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“I think I’d been looking for it all my life—a storm in my body to match the one in my head.”

—Wilder Girls by Rory Power

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“I miss the way the wind steals your breath like it never belonged to you in the first place.”

—Wilder Girls by Rory Power