Month: February 2019

Best of 2018

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I’ve been meaning to write this for MONTHS, but January still felt like an extension of 2018 and then I kept forgetting. Anyways, better late than never, because I actually find these posts very useful. I’ve been making them since 2014 and I love looking back and figuring out what stood the test of time and what didn’t.

First of all, obviously, books. In chronological order once again, but I’ll mark my absolute favorites as I get to them.

  • The Administration series by Manna Francis (because even though I gave most of the books in the series 3 stars, boy did I love it as a whole)
  • The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell (short story collection; it’s so rare that I like most of the stories in a collection, but here I loved them all)
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (I had a few issues with this book but an excellent read regardless)
  • Circe by Madeline Miller (hello, favorite book of the year!)
  • The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (oh my heart)
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (crazy good, like, so good, god, so damn good)

Honorable mentions: Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman, The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Autumn by Ali Smith, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green.

Fav albums! Lovely Little Lonely wins by a landslide, the rest are in no order.

  • The Maine – Lovely Little Lonely
  • Camila Cabello – Camila
  • The Lumineers – Cleopatra
  • Billie Eilish – dont smile at me
  • Snow Patrol – Wildness
  • The Maine – American Candy
  • Sabrina Carpenter – Singular Act I
  • Walk the Moon – What If Nothing
  • Plain White T’s – Parallel Universe
  • Rachel Platten – Waves
  • The Aces – When My Heart Felt Volcanic
  • Little Mix – LM5

Also: Jade Bird, Liza Anne, Cher Lloyd, Wrabel, Sufjan Stevens, Halsey, Leadley, Sigrid, Julia Michaels, Lauren Aquilina, Gabrielle Aplin

Movies and TV. Barely watched anything apart from YouTube, but still:

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Thor Ragnarok (I rewatched it two? three times in 2018, so.)
  • Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
  • Maniac
  • Mindhunter
  • Hannibal

2018 MVP goes to the NHL. Cheers for ruining my life, hockey. Trade deadline is tomorrow and I want to die.

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