Meet the New Year, same as the Old Year

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I kept meaning to write a holiday episode of Trevor and Jason, but it just never came together. Have some of the spanakopita that Inner Jason stress-baked instead.

A new year means a fresh slate of Media Consumption; year eleven was firmly in the "meh" zone, with 92 books and 45 films Consumed, and I note in passing that I still haven't finished stabilising that blanket either. Onward to year twelve, assuming we live all the way through 2017:



January: 6 books, 3 films

BOOKS:

• Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future, Caitlin Shetterly
  
• Victory of Eagles, Naomi Novik
  
• You'll Grow Out of It, Jessi Klein
  
• The dirty life : on farming, food, and love, Kristin Kimball
  
  re-read: Foreigner, CJ Cherryh
  re-read: Bordertown: a chronicle of the Borderlands
  

FILMS:

• Cinderella Man
  
• Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
  
• Doubt
  

February: 6 books, 0 films

BOOKS:

• Tongues of Serpents, Naomi Novik
  
• Moranifesto, Caitlin Moran
  
• A Gathering of Shadows, V E Schwab
  
• Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: vol. 10, Naoko Takeuchi
  
• Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, Helen Fielding
  
• Happily Ever After: Companion to the Selection Series, Kiera Cass
  

FILMS:

March: 10 books, 5 films

BOOKS:

• The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch, Neil Gaiman
  
• The Hanging Tree, Ben Aaronovitch
  
• The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America, Mark Sundeen
  
• Books for Living, Will Schwalbe
  
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
  
• Borderline, Mishell Baker
  
• Year of No Clutter: A Memoir, Eve Schaub
  
• Keeping Bees in Towns & Cities, Luke Dixon
  
• Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, Seanan McGuire
  
• Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free, Randy Henderson
  

FILMS:

• The Great Gilly Hopkins
  
• Finding Dory
  
• Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
  
• Passengers
  
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
  

April: 6 books, 5 films

BOOKS:

• Cheech Is Not My Real Name, But Don't Call Me Chong!, Cheech Marin
  
• Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game
  
• All Our Wrong Todays, Elan Mastai
  
• The Arm: Inside the Billion-dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports, Jeff Passan
  
• Still Dreaming: My Journey From the Barrio to Capitol Hill, Luis Gutierrez
  
• Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
  

FILMS:

• Wayne's World
  
• The Brand New Testament
  
• Kubo and the Two Strings
  
• A Man Called Ove
  
• Swiss Army Man
  

May: 3 books, 2 films

BOOKS:

• The Guineveres, Sarah Domet
  
• Phantom Pains, Mishell Baker
  
• Magic For Nothing, Seanan McGuire
  

FILMS:

• The Age of Adaline
  
• Potiche
  

June: 5 books, 6 films

BOOKS:

• ElfQuest: the Final Quest vol. 1, Wendy and Richard Pini
  
• ElfQuest: the Final Quest vol. 2, Wendy and Richard Pini
  
• Man Repeller: Seeking Love. Finding Overalls. : Essays, Leandra Medine
  
• A Conjuring Of Light, V E Schwab
  
• The Arbitrary Placement of Walls, Martha Soukup
  

FILMS:

• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  
• Independence Day: Resurgence
  
• I Am Not Your Negro
  
• The Kid (1921)
  
• Sing (2016)
  
• Moana
  

July: 7 books, 1 film

BOOKS:

• The Strange Lives of Familiar Insects, Edwin Way Teale
  
• the Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
  
• The Doonesbury Chronicles, G B Trudeau
  
• Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals, William Ratigan
  
• Empire Games, Charles Stross
  
• The Art of Taxidermy, Jane Eastoe
  
• Go Figure: Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know : the Economist Explains, Tom Standage
  

FILMS:

• Get Out
  

August: 6 books, 8 films

BOOKS:

• Convergence, CJ Cherryh
  
• The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross
  
• FeedBack, Mira Grant
  
• The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
  
• Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs, Molly Harper
  
  re-read: The Atrocity Archive, Charles Stross
  

FILMS:

• Rogue One
  
• Logan
  
• X-Men: Apocalypse
  
• Legend (2016)
  
• Doctor Strange
  
• Ender's Game
  
• Arrival
  
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
  

September: 10 books, 9 films

BOOKS:

• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley, Charlotte Gordon
  
• The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting, Clara Parkes
  
• Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World, Clara Parkes
  
• Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men, Molly Harper
  
• Nice Girls Don't Live Forever, Molly Harper
  
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, Kate Moore
  
• The complete Elfquest, volume 4, Wendy and Richard Pini
  
• The complete Elfquest, volume 1, Wendy and Richard Pini
  
• Strange Practice, Vivian Shaw
  
• The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy, Dave Madden
  

FILMS:

• the Lego Batman Movie
  
• Man Of The Year (2006)
  
• Deadpool
  
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
  
• Beauty and the Beast (2017)
  
• Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice
  
• Thank You For Smoking
  
• Horror Hotel (aka City of the Dead)
  

October: 5 books, 10 films

BOOKS:

• So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister, Anna Akana
  
• Invader Zim: Volume 1, Jhonen Vasquez
  
• the Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires, Molly Harper
  
• Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell
  
  re-read: Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
  

FILMS:

• Table 19
  
• Wonder Woman (2017)
  
• Blade Runner 2049
  
• Lady MacBeth
  
• The Bat (1959)
  
• Bright Young Things
  
• Never Let Me Go
  
• Truly Madly Deeply
  
• the Tingler
  
• About Time
  

November: 8 books, 15 films

BOOKS:

• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, Dan Egan
  
• Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures, Ben Mezrich
  
• Where the Wild Things Bite, Molly Harper
  
• Smile at Strangers: And Other Lessons in the Art of Living Fearlessly, Susan Schorn
  
• the Knitter's Book of Yarn, Clara Parkes
  
• The Dangers of Dating A Rebound Vampire, Molly Harper
  
• Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
  re-read: Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
  

FILMS:

• the 6th Day
  
• Duck Soup
  
• Robot & Frank
  
• Gold Diggers of 1935
  
• the Hundred Foot Journey
  
• Frost/Nixon
  
• Carrington
  
• Footlight Parade
  
• Selma
  
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  
• the Black Cauldron
  
• For the Love of Spock
  
• Village of the Damned
  
• Children of the Damned
  
• Valley of the Dolls
  

December

BOOKS:

• Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
• Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal, Melanie Warner
  
• the Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
• My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children, Denene Millner
  
• Realityland: True-life Adventures at Walt Disney World, David Koenig
  
• Hot Doug's: the Book
  
• On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
• By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
• Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks : A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Life, Annie Spence
  
• Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is A Problem, and What to Do About It, Richard V. Reeves
  

FILMS:

• Vampire Academy
  
• Ernest and Celestine
  
• Hotel Transylvania 2
  
• the Lion King
  
• the Rabbi's Cat
  
• Their Finest
  
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
  
• the Last Action Hero
  
• the Lives of Others
  
• To Sir, With Love
  
• Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
  
• the Great Mouse Detective
  
• Triumph of the Will
  
• Jackie
  
• Newsies