Books Read in 2013
- Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
- Hikikomori and the Rental Sister: A Novel
- Secret Daughter
- Sybil
- The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
- Keeping Faith
- First Person Plural : My Life As a Multiple
- Perfect Match
- The Time Machine
- Cleopatra’s Daughter
- A Mango-Shaped Space
- Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life
- Vanishing Acts
- The Pact
- Humdinger!
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- The Day My Brain Exploded
- The Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism And Drug Trafficking In Asia, 1895 1945
- Zarconian Island
Basically, this year, I read a lot of Jodi Picoult books (4), and a lot of medical related texts, especially about brain vascular malformations. One exciting thing with books that happened this year is that I personally met and had dinner with the author of the book, The Day My Brain Exploded, in NYC. :) Also, one of my best friends from middle school wrote the book, Zarconian Island. Few of my favorites from 2013 were Cleopatra’s Daughter, The Day My Brain Exploded, and The Reason I Jump. (Here is my GoodReads account.)
Movies Watched in 2013
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- Elysium
- Despicable Me 2
- Thor: The Dark World
- Carrie
- Now You See Me
- Pacific Rim (Couldn’t Finish)
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Iron Man 3
- Free Birds
- Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
My favorites this year were Thor 2 and Star Trek 2. I really could not get through Pacific Rim, and really disliked the Dragon Ball Z movie. Movies I missed, and still want to watch are Monsters University and Frozen. I feel like I’ve watched more movies than this, but I went through several lists of movies that came out in 2013, so I’m assuming this is a pretty much exhaustive list. Now You See Me was pretty good too.
Right now, I’m watching the 3rd season of Sherlock. I went through the first season of Hannibal in the late summer, too, but I’m not sure if the 2nd season has begun yet. I’ve also watched a few Japanese drama series.
What were some of your favorite movies and books of 2013?