The Year In Lists

[flamebyrd]

Feel free to ask me what I thought of anything on this list, or recommend things based on it.

Books (alphabetical by author)
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
Think of England - K. J. Charles
The Magpie Lord - K. J. Charles
Seraphina / Shadow scale - Rachel Hartman
Gabriel’s City: A Tale of Fables and Fortunes - Laylah Hunter
The Inheritance Trilogy - N. K. Jemisin
Imperial Radch Trilogy (Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy) - Ann Leckie
The Three Body Problem, the Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
Rosemary and Rue - Seanan McGuire
Discount Apocalypse - Seanan McGuire
Starfarers - Vonda N. McIntyre
Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Prince Lestat - Anne Rice
Carry On - Rainbow Rowell
Dreamships - Melissa Scott
The Roads of Heaven Trilogy - Melissa Scott
Lost Things - Melissa Scott & Jo Graham
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe - Benjamin Alire Senz
Black Widow: Forever Red - Margaret Stohl
The Martian - Andy Weir
Stories of the Raksura: The Dead City and The Dark Earth Below - Martha Wells
Wheel of the Infinite - Martha Wells
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps - Kai Ashante Wilson

Comics / Graphic Novels
Phoebe and Her Unicorn #1 - Dana Simpson

Music (alphabetical)
We Come from the Same Place - Allo Darlin'
Coeur de pirate - Coeur de pirate
Blonde - Coeur de pirate
American Beauty / American Psycho - Fall Out Boy
The National - The National
Beneath the Skin - Of Monsters and Men
Footnotes for the Spring - Eliza Rickman
Stories & Stone - Sassafrass
Dark was the Night - Various Artists
Matilda the Musical - Broadway Cast Recording

Movies (roughly chronological)
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Inside Out
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Martian
Mistaken for Strangers (on a plane)
Mr Holmes (on a plane)
Ant-Man (on a plane)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (at 10am Dec 31)

Live Shows (roughly chronological)
Welcome to Night Vale: The Investigators (in Seattle and Vancouver)
Vancouver Canucks vs. Pittsburg Penguins
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - Yevgeny Sudbin Plays Tchaikovsky!
Stars on Ice Canada
Neil Diamond - Melody Road Tour
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - Mahler's 5th Symphony
Live Trek (in Seattle)
Matilda: The Musical (on Broadway)

Conventions (chronological)
Worldcon 2015 (in Spokane)
GeekGirlCon 2015 (in Seattle)
World Maker Faire New York

Places (chronological)
Sint Maarten / Saint-Martin
New York City, USA (twice)
Spokane, USA
Seattle, USA
Mexico City, Mexico

Anniversaries
7 years of marriage
12 years dating
6 years in Canada
5 years in my current job
1 month as a Canadian citizen

Comments

[snickfic]

I am :DDD over the second item in your "live shows" list. :D

I can't remember, did you say you ended up liking Melissa Scott, or no?

[flamebyrd]

:D It was great to finally get to a game!

I did! Well, I do, I've read and loved a lot of her fantasy, but this last year I branched out into her SF. Of the ones I read last year, I loved Dreamships, enjoyed the 3 Roads of Heaven books with some reservations, and Lost Things was okay but not interesting enough for me to continue with the series.

[snickfic]

Good to know! I've realized just how much I love SF, especially space opera, so I will keep those notes in mind. :)

[flamebyrd]

Yeah, and maybe part of why Lost Things didn't gel for me was that it's not SF, it's early-20th-century airplanes with magic. Dreamships is arguably cyberpunk but it's still set in space!

I really need to find a recs list of space opera with female protagonists, that would be great.

[velithya]

STAR WARS DID YOU LOVE IT Y/N

[flamebyrd]

I really enjoyed it! It lost my suspension of disbelief once or twice but I'm not resentful about it because it was just so much fun. :D

[velithya]

:D :D :D

I don't use my own tumblr at all but I've been browsing tags for the last couple of days and the most hilarious thing is every 10 - 15 posts is one with someone going "Poe Dameron more like Poe DAMN-eron AMIRITE :D" like they're the first one to do it. I think I have scrolled past that post at least 20 times :D

I think icons might be in order <.<

[flamebyrd]

*groans at the pun* I was surprised at how little Poe was in the film, given how much I'd seen the name thrown about!

[velithya]

I think he was in it as much as he needed to be. And he opens the whole film, that's a pretty big deal :)

(edit: PS. Sami hasn't been well enough to go to the cinema yet so she's staying spoiler free, no talking about the film tonight please ♥)