The reason the name is updated to 2013 in Shit is because, in addition to the 18 movies I’ve seen in theaters in 2013, I also, for the first time in my life, read a pretty good amount of books in the same year that they were published. 15 of them, really, and I had hoped for a couple more. I’ve already had reviews of three of them published in other venues, but I’ll still add some extra original thoughts for those days.
What this means is that, starting tomorrow, I’m going to be posting something once every day for the next 35 days. That’s until the end of December. I’m giving myself an extra two days because I anticipate seeing Oldboy and Hunger Games: Catching Fire, so that will have to be written about as well.
Last year I wrote just under 13,000 words total, with one review a total of 2 and others nearing 2,000. Having given myself a slightly larger lead time than last year (I’ve been at this a little longer than a week and a half so far, but I’ve also been trying, very lazily, to place a couple of these, which have been done for about a month) I expect this round to be slightly more consistent in terms of length. It’s going to be a lot.
So here it is, your table of contents, in no order whatsoever:
- The Color Master
- Riddick
- The Hanging on Union Square
- Love is the Law
- Oblivion
- The Wolverine
- Ender’s Game
- After Earth
- Fruitvale Station
- My Education
- You’re Next
- Taipei
- The Purge
- Stoker
- Elysium
- The Childhood of Jesus
- Menial: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction
- Joyland
- The Last Stand
- Hitchcock
- A Tale For the Time Being
- Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- The Conservation of Shadows
- The Croods
- Pink Globalization
- Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
- From Up on Poppy Hill
- William Gibson
- Ghosts in the Machine
- Pain & Gain
- Carrie
- Escape Plan
- Oldboy
- Apology
- Nevada
So, here goes nothing.