Books & Movies: 2013

I like to keep lists of movies I watch and books I read over the course of a year. This year, I read 14 books. That’s down quite a bit from 2012, when I read 26, with the blame placed solely on the Song of Ice & Fire series (perhaps better known as Game of Thrones) and it’s millions of pages. Of the 14, ASOIAF counts for 3 of them, so.... yeah. I think it took me 8 or 9 months to read the whole series. Now that I’m done with that, 2014’s number should be quite a bit higher!! I think I’d like to try to read 2 books a month this year. I guess I read roughly 1 book a month this year, but, once again, ASOIAF kind of screws up that average.

As far as movies, both in theater and on DVD, I saw 163. That number is also quite a bit less than 2012’s number, which was 224! But I binge-watched a lot of TV series this year, so that’s likely the reason for that. No regrets, though, I discovered a lot of great new shows this year. Maybe I should start making a list of TV shows/series that I watch...  Anyway, of the 163, 34 were first-run in theaters, with an additional 26 that I saw in theaters but that weren’t new movies. The rest were your average Netflix, DVD, Redbox, TV, etc. That comes out to approximately 3 movies a week.