Media flow: what I've been reading, listening to, watching...

Some of the media I've been consuming - things I'd like to shout about, promote and circulate, or just plain rate. Some items I give my own star rating to - in brackets after the item (1-5)

2024

March

Literature:

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

February

Literature:

The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu

January

Literature:

The 3 Body Problem, Cixin Liu

2023

December

Literature:

Fairy Tale, Stephen King

Movies/TV:

Die Hard (5)

Home Alone (4.5)

Mog's Christmas (5)

November

Literature:

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway (5)

Movies/TV:

Black Bear (2.5)

Tetris (3)

Saltburn (3.5)

The Hitcher [remake; 2007] (3)

October

Literature:

A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (4)

Movies/TV:

Atlanta Season 4 (5)

September

Literature:

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon (4)

Movies/TV:

Cosmic Time Machine (4)

A Haunting in Venice (4)

August

Literature:

The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner

Jurrasic Park, Michael Crichton

Movies/TV:

Barbie (4)

Oppenheimer (4)

July

Literature:

The Trees, Percival Everett (5)

Movies/TV:

Moneyball

Underwater (2)

Indiana Jones and the dial of... *yawn* (-100)

June

Literature:

Devil's House, John Darnielle

Movies/TV:

[TV] Succession - season 1 (4+)

Asteroid City (3.5)

Reality

May

Literature:

Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace

Movies/TV:

Air

Logan

April

Fiction:

Count Zero, William Gibson

Mr Loverman, Bernadine Evaristo

Movies/TV:

Moonlight [2016] (5+)

March

Fiction:

When Memory Dies, Ambalavaner Sivanandan (5)

Music:

Fenfo, Fatoumata Diawara [album]

Low End Theory, A Tribe Called Quest

Voyageur, Ali Farka Toure [album] (5)

Movies/TV:

The Last of Us - Season 1 [2023] (5)

Rye Lane [2023] (5+)

February

Fiction:

Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon (attempted but not completed)

Non-fiction:

Socialism with an Anarchist Squint [via strangematters.coop] (5)

Music

Rubber Soul, The Beatles [album]

Shore, Fleet Foxes [album]

Movies/TV

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [2011] (4)

The Last of Us [2022] (4)

January

Fiction

Neuromancer, William Gibson (re-reading)

Non-Fiction:

Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky (re-reading)

Music

Bleed Out, The Mountain Goats [album]

Walkman, Bad Bad Hats [album]

Movies

Glass Onion, a Knives out Mystery [2022] (3.5)

Cosmos [2019] (4)

The Lost Daughters (4)

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