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Firstly, Hello.

Secondly, SORRY.

Thirdly, I WANNA READ MORE BOOKS AND TALK MORE ON HERE IN 2016 PEOPLE!


Thought I might actually use the section I pretty much forced on everyone. This year my official Goodreads challenge is a mere 25 books. Frankly I have no idea what the year holds for me but I do know the first half of it is gonna be busy as hell so while I am obviously hoping to read more. I am starting small.

Mini challenges within that 25 books include some classics, some really really overdue reads aka start to clear my backlog and some new favourites as I want to complete some read-a-longs this year.


Read:

Classics 0/5:

Overdue 0/15:

Read-a-longs 1/12:

I look forward to meeting the new groupites :D

YAY!!!!!

WELCOME BACK ELLE!!!!

Thought of you loads yesterday. Miss you xxx

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "YAY!!!!!

WELCOME BACK ELLE!!!!

Thought of you loads yesterday. Miss you xxx"

<3 <3


Miss you too dude! Life has been so crazy so unfortunately something had to give :(. Excited to try make time to speak to people I love again though <3

That's understandable but you'll have to earn forgiveness

NO COOKIE FOR YOU!

P.S. Yay!

LOL

I want a cookie :(

Hey Elle! *waves*

Hiiii!

Nice to meet you Elle. I've been on here since last May so a relative newbie.

Hi Pam! Nice to meet you, too! I have been here for like.. ages. But I'm a university student (post-grad now) so life gets mega busy sometimes!

Good luck with your challenge Elle

Thanks Desley!

I vaguely recall this Elle person.

She's gone all cosmopolitan, it seems.

Vanilla, strawberry AND chocolate!

I want ice cream.

What do you need to read for your studies?

Not a lot really. I am doing two Anthropology modules this term but most of my work is watching documentaries and practical stuff :)

Oooooooo.

Can you give us links to the documentaries?

Are you looking for reccies for your reading?

I have the biggest backlog ever so I'm gonna try get through that!!

And what ones? There is like... so many.

I wanna know what you need to watch for school.

And don't even talk to me about backlogs.

Lol!

Well I'll copy in a list of the ones we watched as part of the 'top documentaries of all time' Sight and Sound series last semester.

Belovy (1994)
Titicut Follies (1967)
Divorce Iranian Style (1998)
Grey gardens (1975)
When we were Kings (1996)
Don't Look back
5 broken cameras (2011)
Burden of Dreams (1982)
This is Not a Film (2011)
Hoop Dreams (1994)




This is our filmography copied in:

OBSERVATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES
Primary. 1960. [Film]. Robert Drew. Dir. US: Drew Associates. Sisters In Law. 2005. [Film]. Kim Longinotto. Dir. UK: Vixen Films. Two Years at Sea. 2011. [Film]. Ben Rivers. Dir. UK: FLAMIN.
CINEMA VERITÉ DOCUMENTARIES
Chronicle of a summer. 1961.[Film]. Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. Dir. France: Argos Films.
Act of Killing. 2012.[Film]. Joshua Oppenheimer. Dir. Denmark: Final Cut For Real.
The Good Woman of Bangkok. 1991. [Film]. Dennis O’Rourke. Dir. Australia: O’Rourke and Associ- ates Filmmakers Pty. Ltd.
PARTICIPATORY (FILMMAKER’S JOURNEY) DOCUMENTARIES
The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife. 1991. [Film]. Nick Broomfield. Dir. UK: Lafayette Films. A Syrian Love Story. 2015. [Film]. Sean McAllister. Dir. UK: 10ft Films Ltd.
Gallivant. 1996. [Film]. Andrew Kötting. Dir. UK: ACE, BFI, Channel4Films, Tall Stories.
FIRST PERSON DOCUMENTARIES
Wide Awake. 2006. [Film]. Alan Berliner. Dir. US:
Sherman’s March. 1985.[Film]. Ross McElwee. Dir. US: PBS.
David Holzman’s Diary. 1967.[Film]. Jim McBride. Dir. US: New Yorker Films.
ESSAY DOCUMENTARIES
San Soleil. 1986.[Film]. Chris Marker. Dir. France: Argos Films. London. 1994. [Film]. Patrick Keiller. Dir. UK: BFI, Koninck Studios. Bitter Lake. 2015. [Film]. Adam Curtis. Dir. UK: BBC.
ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARIES
To Live With Herds. 1972. [Film]. David and Judith MacDougall. Dir. USA: Berkeley Media. Manakamana. 2013.[Film]. Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez. Dir. USA: Harvard Sensory Lab. My Name is Salt. 2013. [Film]. Farida Pacha. Dir. Switzerland: Leafbird Films.

Ucking fell.

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Ucking fell."

like i said, a lot :p

Quite.

And not a decent cartoon among them :-(

I'll find you some Smurfs tomorrow, Jim.

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'll find you some Smurfs tomorrow, Jim."

Tom and Jerry would be fine, plenty of good anthropology in Tom and Jerry
Or Roadrunner perhaps

Smurfs, Jim.

Smurfs.

One girl smurf. ONE. Not going to work, on so many levels.

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Smurfs, Jim.

Smurfs."

they're blue and sell petrol

One girl and all those boys, sounds like an anthropology expriment to me. Not to mention the effect being blue has in your society

haha.

aw man i wish the stuff we had to watch was half as cheery. most of the best documentaries are soul destroyingly depressing

maybe i should add in my films watched to this list too :p

Elle wrote: "maybe i should add in my films watched to this list too :p"

do you really want to depress us that much :-(

Ha, I'm not that bad Jim!


My first book finished of 2016 was Darkness Exposed by Terri Reid.

I actually really like this series and I completely understand they are meant to be easier reads than your average mystery but unfortunately this one felt stale. The mystery was just so much like the last one, down to even smaller details, that it felt boring almost.

I gave it a disappointing 3 stars (while the others easily got 5)

I found Terri Reids books got very samey. I did love the ones I read though and would still recommend them but definitely not ones to read one after the other. I love the paranormal aspect to them

I find the exact same for any longer series to be honest and normally try to space them out more but have read the last 3 in pretty quick succession. I will be taking a break for a while definitely.

Looking at it from the point of view of the writer, it is difficult to keep a series fresh.

As a reader then the author should know when to give it up if they have that many issues. I think only a few authors can get away with extended series'.

This one is great though even if it is samey. My problem with the stale mystery comes down to like proper small details that were similar and you have to ask why on earth she choose to do it so similar as it ruined the surprise as such.

Jim wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'll find you some Smurfs tomorrow, Jim."

Tom and Jerry would be fine, plenty of good anthropology in Tom and Jerry
Or Roadrunner perhaps"

Or Bugs Bunny. Some great cultural commentaries in that, e.g. the one where they do the whole Ring (opera) cycle.

Elle wrote: "As a reader then the author should know when to give it up if they have that many issues. I think only a few authors can get away with extended series'.

This one is great though even if it is same..."

That's not good. Is she trad published - might be pressure from the publisher to produce books too quickly?

Pam wrote: "Elle wrote: "As a reader then the author should know when to give it up if they have that many issues. I think only a few authors can get away with extended series'.

This one is great though even ..."

I think she might be now but she started of as an indy author so not sure at what point she changed over.

Pam wrote: "Or Bugs Bunny. Some great cultural commentaries in that, e.g. the one where they do the whole Ring (opera) cycle. ..."

Absolutely, Kill the Wabbit!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1at...

It seems reasonable to assume that the cartoons of the Merry Melodies & Loony Tunes era will go down in history as the USA's finest cultural achievement.

Jim wrote: "Pam wrote: "Or Bugs Bunny. Some great cultural commentaries in that, e.g. the one where they do the whole Ring (opera) cycle. ..."

Absolutely, Kill the Wabbit!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1..."

Thanks so much for that, Jim. I haven't seen it in years. Why did they stop showing them on TV?

probably too sophisticated for modern tastes :-(

There are quite a few around on Youtube, if you look.

I always liked Droopy: https://youtu.be/mmPDow5xpE4

even the politically incorrect Tom and Jerry cartoons :-)

Back in the olden days I used to have a decent collection of cartoon video tapes.

Then our children came along and wore them all out.