July: A Recap

Books

Total Books Read this month: 4

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur
• Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Shame on You by Clara Salaman
  

Books reviewed: 3

Books by Female Authors: 3
Books by Male Authors: 1

Fiction: 4
Non-Fiction: 0

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Authors discovered: Rob Reger, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Shauna Cross.

Challenge Progress ...

50 Books Challenge: 28/50
Classics Challenge: 1/5 (No progress in July)
GLBT Challenge: 1/5

Summary/Opinion: Four's not great but it's pretty good considering I moved this month and lots of things have been on my mind lately. Not a great number but Let the Right One In was an absolutely superb read. I also joined the Harry Potter reading challenge and read my first book for the GLBT challenge - both of which I'm uber excited about. I suck at the Classics challenge so far. Erggg.

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Films/TV

Total Films watched this month: 18

• Elizabeth (1998)
• Juno (2007)
• Pineapple Express (2008)
• Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
• Wild Child (2008)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
• The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
• I Love You, Man (2009)
• Bruno (2009)
• Smart People (2008)
• Slackers (2002)
• Religulous (2008)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• American Psycho (2000)
• Idiocracy (2006)
• Garden State (2004)
• 3 Men and a Baby (1987)
• 3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)

Newly released films seen: 1
Films Reviewed: 1

Films New to me: 8
Films Rewatched: 10

Films in production/about to be released that I'm most excited about:

• Whip It (2009)
• Funny People (2009)

Film of the month: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

TV Shows watched this month:

• Undeclared (All episodes)
  
• Freaks and Geeks (All episodes)
  
• Big Love (First season)
• How I Met Your Mother (All four seasons)

Summary/Opinion: I think the visual award this month goes to Jason Segal for influencing me during the first two and a half weeks of July. I barely moved from my monitor as I watched Undeclared and Forgetting Sarah Marshall over and over, then needed higher doses of Segal, and quickly watched I Love You, Man and all four seasons of How I Met Your Mother (that show doesn't give the man justice when it comes to how funny he is). I've been a complete couch potato this month, which is probably to blame for my lack of reading.

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Blogs/Web

Favourite Blog/s: The Book Zombie (again!), The Zen Leaf (I've been visiting for a while but Amanda's blogs are always so awesome), Friendly Atheist, Awful Library Books & VampChix.
Favourite Site/s: Channel 4's oD (On Demand - to catch up with ... *gulp*, don't shoot me, Big Brother!).

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Music

Favourite Bands: The Libertines & Peter Doherty. (It's just all about Pete this month ... again!)
Songs stuck in my head: UnBiloTitled by Babyshambles, You Talk by Babyshambles & What Became of the Likely Lads by The Libertines.
Concerts Attended: 0

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Personal

First month of living with my parents has been better than expected. The first couple of weeks was fine, then I started feeling grouchy, depressed and ick. (There's something about living with 50-something year olds that isn't quite right when you're in your twenties. I'm definitely still full of that 'youthful optimism' that the parents have kind of ... forgotten about :-P ). But, luckily, my friends in Cardiff are very near by and I've gotten to see them often. :-D

(Check out us cool kids in the audience of BBC's The Big Questions earlier this month. We're the bored-looking six young 'uns, second row from the back.)