Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

A daily record of all of the books and movies and films and novels and short stories and even television shows (occasionally) that I read or watched collected into a monthly report.

Not-So-Jumping July 2026

Greatest hits included: “They Drive By Night”, “The Asphalt Jungle,” and “The Prestige”. Lows …. “Close Encounters of The Third Kind”?

2026-07-04
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Malicious May 2026 Consumption

Greatest Hits: Shakespeare’s “Richard III”, and Bunuel’s “El” and “This Gun for Hire”, being the first screen collaboration of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.

2026-06-05
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Aspiring April Consumption 2026

Best of included “The Heat” (2013), “The Violent Men” (1955), “Brute Force” (1947) and Percival Everett’s novel “The Trees”. Worst of? “Happy Gilmore 2”!

2026-05-06
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Meretricious March 2026 Reading and Writing

Greatest Hits!: “The Hit” (1980) and “Plate Tectonics”. Lowest Lows: “Death Proof” and “The Big Hit”.

2026-04-09
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Febrifugal February 2026 Consumption

Greatest hits!: “Okla-fucking-homa!” (1955). Not even kidding. “Millions” (2004). “Reservation Dogs” (2021-23)
Lowest lows …. “The Aprils Fools” (1969)?

2026-03-01
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Janissary January 2026 Consumption

Greatest hits of January: Euripides’ “Andromache”, “Manchester by the Sea”, “Civil War”, Hegel, Hegel, Hegel, Simone Weil’s essay on the Iliad, “The Naked City”.
Misses: “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” and, pointedly, “Where the Truth Lies”.

2026-02-07
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December 2025 Consumption (no, not tuberculosis)

Greatest Hits: Have you read Euripides? Why the hell not? Don’t tell anyone.
Worst Cuts: The Contractor with Chris Pine, The Painter with Bob Shitlips

2026-01-05
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Nervous November 2025 Consumption

Greatest Hits: Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Green Porno, The Thunderbolts. Lowest Lows: Thor: Ragnorak,

2025-12-13
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September & October 2025

Best listening experience of Sept-Oct: Wire’s 1977 album “Pink Flag”. So rad.

2025-11-03
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Hazy July & August 2025 Consumption

Greatest Hits: Sahara, To the Lighthouse. Lowest Lows: The Bear, Rocky III.

2025-09-03
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Jejune June 2025 Consumption

Greatest hits: “To the Lighthouse” and “Sexy Beast” and Parasite”; Low blows: “Iron Man 3”

2025-07-16
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Monotonous May 2025 Consumption

Greatest hits: “To Live and Die in L.A.” and “Floating Clouds” and “To the Lighthouse”. Low blows: “City of Industry” Ouch.

2025-06-18
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Anxious April 2025: Consumption

Greatest hits: Henrik Pontoppidan, “Lucky Per”; the 2024 series “Shōgun”; the long-awaited second season of the Disney series “Andor”; disappointments: “Dance Hall of the Dead”

2025-05-15
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March 2025: Reading, Viewing

Greatest Hits: “Triangle of Sadness”, “Secrets & Lies”, “Shampoo”, and the 1989 “Lonesome Dove” series. Misses: “Ahsoka”?

2025-04-09
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Fearful February 2025: Reading, Viewing

Triumphs: “The Red Shoes” and “Picnic at Hanging Rock”! Flaubert’s “Sentimental Education”!