April Reading Progress

Apr 2016 books
Thankfully I managed a few more books this month than last. Unfortunately May will probably be my busiest month yet for studying, so I'm not expecting to get through all that much more until possibly mid-June.

• The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time #4) - Robert Jordan
  
• Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) - Sarah J. Maas
  
• The Demon King (The Seven Realms #1) - Cinda Williams Chima
  
• Constantine, Vol 1: The Spark and the Flame - Lemire & Fawkes (Comic)
  
• Matilda - Roald Dahl
  
• Calamity (The Reckoners #3) - Brandon Sanderson
  

Currently Reading:
The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time #5) - Robert Jordan

March Reading Progress

Mar 2016 books
Clearly there's a lot less books this time around. That's because my university semester started up again, giving me a lot less time for reading. And I got distracted from WoT #4.. a lot... yeah, sorry about that I promise I'll finish some time next month!

• James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
  
• To Hold the Bridge - Garth Nix
  
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  

Currently Reading:

The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time #4) - Robert Jordan

February Reading Progress

Feb 2016 books

• The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time #2) - Robert Jordan
  
• 1984 - George Orwell
  
• Firefight (The Reckoners #2) - Brandon Sanderson
  
• Storm - Tim Minchin (Graphic Novel)
  
• The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time #3) - Robert Jordan
  
• The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
  
• Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 1: Cosmic Avengers - Bendis (Comic)
  
• Cairo - G Willow Wilson (Graphic Novel)
  
• Caroline - Neil Gaiman (Graphic Novel)
  
• Shadows of Self (Mistborn #5) - Brandon Sanderson
  
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  

Currently Reading:
The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time #4) - Robert Jordan

January Reading Progress

I'm going to start some monthly updates, hopefully among some other new blog ideas.
So here are the books I've read in January 2016:

• Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
  
• American Gods - Neil Gaiman 
  
• Legion and the Emperor's Soul - Brandon Sanderson
  
• Roger Ascham and the King's Lost Girl - Matthew Reilly
  
• The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time #1) - Robert Jordan
  
• Steelheart (The Reckoners #1) - Brandon Sanderson
  
• Mitosis (The Reckoners #1.5) - Brandon Sanderson
  

Currently Reading:

The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time #2) - Robert Jordan

To Read

This is the start of my list of books that I want to read at some point in the (hopefully) near future. I say start of it, since before starting this blog I hadn't actually created a list of books before although I previously have had one for TV shows.
I hope to keep increasing this list, and reading from it too if I can find the time and the physical books since I much prefer physical copies to digital. Thankfully there's lots of libraries within about a 15 minute drive from my house so that shouldn't be a problem.
This list will take me AGES to read as it is, but please do suggest things anyway!

Author last name - Series Title (Title of first book) #books out/#books total
Author last name - Title of standalone novel

To Read

Series

• Abercrombie - First Law (The Blade Itself) 3/3
• Abraham - The Long Price Quartet (A Shadow in Summer) 4/4
• Bennett - The Divine Cities (City of Stairs) 3/3
• Brett - Demon Cycle (The Painted Man) 5/5
• Brooks - Shannara (The Sword of Shannara) 29/30?
• Suggested reading order
• Brown - Red Rising Trilogy (Red Rising) 3/3
• Butcher - The Dresden Files (Storm Front) 15/20?
• Canavan - Kyralia Series (Magician's Guild) (3 + 1 + 3)/7
• Card - Pathfinder Series (Pathfinder) 3/?
• Carmody - Obernewtyn Chronicles (Obernewtyn) 8/8
• Cashore - Graceling Realm Books (Graceling) 3/3
• Chima - Seven Realms (The Demon King) 4/4
• Chima - The Shattered Realms (Flamecaster) 2/3
• Chima - The Heir Chronicles (The Warrior Heir) 5/5
• Cook - The Black Company Series (The Black Company) 10/12?
• Corey - The Expanse (Leviathan Wakes) 7/9
• Crichton - Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park) 2/2
• Douglas - The Axis Trilogy (BattleAxe) 3/3
• Douglas - The Wayfarer Redemption (Sinner) 3/3
• Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen (Gardens of the Moon) 10/10
• Esslemont - Novels of the Malazan Empire (Night of Knives) 6/6
• Erikson - Kharkanas Trilogy (Forge of Darkness) 2/3
• Esslemont - Path to Ascendancy (Dancer's Lament) 3/3
• Fiest - The Riftwar Cycle (Magician: Apprentice) 30/?
• Friedman - Coldfire Trilogy (Black Sun Rising) 3/3
• Goodkind - The Sword Of Truth Arc 1 (Wizard's First Rule) 11/11
• Grossman - The Magicians (The Magicans) 3/?
• Hair - Moontide Quartet (Mage's Blood) 4/4
• Hancock - War God (War God: Nights of the Witch) 2/?
• Hobb - Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice) 3/3
• Jordan & Sanderson - The Wheel of Time (The Eye of the World) 14/14
• Kaufman/Kristoff - The Illuminae Files (Illuminae) 3/3
• King - The Dark Tower (The Gunslinger) 8/8
• LaFevers - His Fair Assassin (Grave Mercy) 3/3
• Lynch - Gentlemen Bastard Sequence (The Lies of Locke Lamora) 3/7
• Maas - Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass) 6/7?
• Marion - Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies) 2/4?
• McCaffery - Dragon Riders of Pern 24/?
• McCammon - Matthew Corbett (Speaks the Nightbird) 5/?
• Moorcock - Elric (Elric of Melnibone) 6/6
• Ness - Chaos Walking (The Knife of Never Letting Go) 3/3
• Pierce - The Song of the Lioness (Alanna: the first adventure) 4/4
• Pierce - Protector of the Small (First Test) 4/4
• Pratchett - Discworld (The Colour of Magic) 41/41
• Pryor - Doorways Trilogy (The House of Many Rooms) 3/3
• Rothfuss - Kingkiller Chronicles (The Name of the Wind) 2/3
• Ryan - Raven's Shadow (Blood Song) 3/3
• Sanderson - Mistborn (Mistborn: The Final Empire) 3/3
• Wax and Wayne (Alloy of Law) 3/4
• 2 more future series in same world (?)
• Sanderson - The Reckoners (Steelheart) 3/3 + 1 short story
• Sanderson - Stormlight Archive (The Way of Kings) 4/10
• Sanderson - Warbreaker series (Warbreaker) 1/3?
• Sanderson - Elantris series (Elantris) 1/?
• Sapkowski - The Witcher (The Last Wish) 5/?
• Scalzi - Old Man's War (Old Man's War) 6/?
• Snyder - Study Series (Poison Study) 3/3 Study + 3/3 Glass
• Stiefvater - The Raven Cycle (The Raven Boys) 3/4
• Zelazny - The Chronicles of Amber (Nine Princes in Amber) 10/10

Standalone

• Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
• Carmody - The Gathering
• Carmody - Scatterlings
• Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
• Cline - Ready Player One
• Fry - The Liar
• Gaiman - Neverwhere
• Gaiman - American Gods
• Gerritsen - Gravity
• Lovecraft - The Best of H.P. Lovecraft
• Ness - A Monster Calls
• Orwell - 1984
• Zusak - The Book Thief

Anime & Cartoons List

While I haven't seen nearly as many animated shows as live action ones, I still have found a few to enjoy! This doesn't include things I watched as a little kid, since I probably don't remember those (aside from if I rewatched them more recently).
And the same goes here as it did for live action shows: please don't post spoilers (preferably of anything, but especially not from those that I'm not yet up to date with), and feel free to recommend me anything else you think I'll enjoy!

Completed/Up to date

• Avatar: the Last Airbender
• Avatar: the Legend of Korra
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Dragon Ball
• Dragon Ball Z
• Detroit Metal City
• Gurren Lagann
• Naruto
• Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet

In Process/Did Not Finish

• Naruto Shippuuden
• Shingeki No Kyojin (Attack on Titan)
• One Punch Man
• Death Note
• The Devil is a Part Timer
• Wakfu
• Unlimited Blade Works/Fate Zero
• Blue Exorcist
• Mirai Nikki

To Watch

• Space Brothers
• PsychoPass
• Code Geass
• Metalgear Solid
• Mushi-shi
• Blue Submarine
• Stein's Gate
• Btoom!
• Cowboy Bebop
• Hellsing Ultimate
• Trigun
• Evangelion

TV Shows -To watch!

Here's the list of shows I've been meaning to watch, or recommended to watch and haven't gotten around to quite yet. This list also includes some shows that have been announced and not yet released (those are mostly towards the bottom of the list, but otherwise this list is in no particular order).
Some of these shows I may have seen literally 1 or 2 episodes of -but not enough to consider putting in my watched/watching list.

To Watch

• Taboo
• The Night Manager
• Outsiders
• The Whisperers (cancelled, 1 season cliffhanger ending apparently)
• Narcos
• Limitless
• The Player
• The Shannara Chronicles
• The Expanse

• The Dresden Files
• Fringe
• The 100
• The Librarian (3 tv movies + tv series)
• Vikings
• Skins
• Farscape
• Falling Skies
• Hemlock Grove
• Haven
• Hannibal
• Burn Notice
• Ashes To Ashes/Life On Mars
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Watched some when it came out)
• Unforgettable
• Kyle XY
• Hex
• Quantum Leap
• Alphas
• Surface
• Lost Girl
• How to Get Away with Murder
• Mr Robot
• Warehouse 13
• Sleepy Hollow
• Peaky Blinders
• The 4400
• Homeland
• Orphan Black
• iZombie
• The Frankenstein Code
• Real Humans
• The Returned
• Continuum
• 21 Jump Street
• Sanctuary
• Salem
• The Frankenstein Chronicles

A Couple of My Favourite Books

Unfortunately, I don't have a list of all the books I've read over time. That would be one mightily huge list. But instead I'll provide a list of some of my favourite series.
I was originally thinking of writing up a list of all the books I own, then realized I haven't even read all of them yet! Plus I have quite a few, so it's easier to just select a few of my favourite ones.
If you'd like to know more about any of these series/authors, feel free to ask!

In no particular order:

A Couple of My Favourite Books

1. J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter, 7 books
• Don't think this needs any explanation, really.
2. George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire, 5 books (so far)
• For those unaware, A Song of Ice and Fire is the book series name for Game of Thrones, I started reading them just after I watched the first season of the show.
3. Garth Nix - The Old Kingdom Trilogy, 3 books + 1 book of short stories
• Australian author whose books I first read towards the end of primary school/start of high school but still love. A series about necromancers, magic, undead and a talking cat-thing.
4. Brent Weeks - The Night Angel Trilogy, 3 books
• Basically, about a boy who becomes an assassin. There are some great original magic concepts in this series all based in a dark, gritty world.
5. Brent Weeks - Lightbringer, 3 books (so far)
• Weeks' 2nd series is, in my opinion, even better than his first. In this, the magic system is based of colours of light and their properties. Some people are only able to manipulate one colour, the monochromes, others two or rarer still three. But per generation, only one person, the Prism, is able to manipulate all 7 colors: subred (infrared), red, orange, yellow, green, blue and superviolet. Each has different consistency and uses and it's all very cool I'll leave it at that.
6. Matthew Reilly - I own all of his books... including 2 series: Scarecrow and Jack West
• Reilly is the writer to go to for action books. If you liked Dan Brown, but want something with a bit more James Bond style action? This is it.
• Scarecrow series, 4 books (so far) + 1 novella: My personal favourites, the main character is a marine name Shane Schofield, call sign Scarecrow, and the series is all about him and his team getting in the craziest situations and the (mostly) getting out of them again. This includes explosions everywhere, car chases, killer whales, the American President, you name it!
• Jack West series, 3 books (so far): Think Indiana Jones in book form.
• Standalone novels, 5 books: one is about an alternate universe where the world is obsessed with hover car racing (Hover Car Racer.. duh), and the most recent of his books is The Great Zoo of China: think Jurassic Park with dragons instead of dinosaurs.
7. Christopher Paolini - The Inheritance Cycle, 4 books
• I read Eragon and Eldest when I was a lot younger, soon after they came out and really enjoyed them, so of course I then had to read Brisingr and, eventually, Inheritance. To be honest, they were much more enjoyable when I was younger, and I didn't so much like how the series was ended, but for the sake of nostalgia, I feel they deserve a place on this list.
• Please disregard that the movie Eragon ever existed, it's one of the worst things I've ever seen! It's on the level of Dragonball Evolution and Avatar the Last Airbender for live action movie failures.
8. Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials, 3 books
• These ones are fairly classic reads, talking 'daemons' that accompany their humans everywhere, a magic compass, a lot of travel in between universes, and somewhat of a negative commentary on the role of churchs and religion in history (if you're into that sort of thing).
• Of course, the first book in this series was also made into a movie, and while some of it does differ to the series it's still not such a bad adaptation from what I remember.
9. C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia, 7 books which I have in one large volume
• More classics, I'm sure everyone at least knows about them from the movies, but this is another series I really enjoyed when I was younger, and haven't reread in a while.
10. Steven Erikson & Ian C. Esslemont - Malazan Book of the Fallen
• An epic fantasy series if there ever was one, I only started reading this series a few months ago (towards the end of June in fact) and am just past halfway of the series overall (as of the end of August), and I must say, though it does have a few ups and downs in terms of more interesting characters and continents and storylines, there are definitely more ups. Some people do find it difficult to first get into the series because not very much is explained of the world or magic system beforehand, they just send you right into the story, but I loved it!

I feel like I'm missing a lot of series that should probably be on this list, and may or may not add to it later, but as you can see, for the most part I really enjoy fantasy books and wouldn't have it any other way.

TV Shows - TV Watching tracker

I'm a sucker for some good Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but I also watch the occasional Drama. Here's the list of shows (that I remember/in recent years) which I've completed, am in process of watching or am waiting impatiently for the next season to come out!

In Progress

Strike through on these is for seasons I've actually started watching; updating as I go / as new seasons start.

Show	Season #	Date
Sherlock	Season 4	1 Jan 2017
Broadchurch (Final Season)	Season 3	27 Feb
Sense8 (Final Season)	Season 2 (All Eps)	5 May
Phillip K. Dick's Electric Dreams	Miniseries	17 Sep
Altered Carbon	Season 1	2 Feb 2018
American Gods	Season 2	10 Mar
Swamp Thing	Season 1	31 May
Marvel's Jessica Jones (Final Season)	Season 3 (All Eps)	14 Jun
Preacher (Final Season)	Season 4	4 Aug
Silicon Valley (Final Season)	Season 6	27 Oct 2019
Westworld	Season 3	15 Mar 2020
Gen:LOCK	Season 2	4 Nov 2020
The Handmaid's Tale	Season 5	14 Sept 2022
Silo	Season 1	5 May 2023
Marvel's What if...?	Season 3 (final season)	22 Dec 2024
Squid Game	Season 2	26 Dec
Black Mirror	Season 7 (All Eps)	10 Apr 2025
Ironheart	Miniseries	24 June
Countdown (Prime)	Season 1	25 June
Wednesday	Season 2 (Pt 1)	6 Aug
Peacemaker	Season 2	21 Aug
The Boys: Gen V	Season 2	17 Sept
The Witcher	Season 4	30 Oct
Stranger Things	Season 5 (Final season)	26 Nov
Ms. Marvel	Season 2	??
Upright	Season 3	??
The Mandalorian	Season 4	??
Good Omens	Season 3	??
Ahsoka	Season 2	??
One Piece (Live Action)	Season 2	??
Fallout	Season 2	??
The Boys (Final Season)	Season 5	??
House of the Dragon	Season 3	??
Star Wars The Skeleton Crew	Season 2	??
Daredevil: Born Again	Season 2	??
Doctor Who	Season 16 (3)	???
The Last of Us	Season 3	??

Completed shows

These are the shows I stuck through until completion (unfortunately some of which were cut off quite short *cough* Firefly *cough*). I wouldn't necessarily name all of these as favourites, but the more seasons present, the more likely there was definitely something I was sticking by to watch!

Show	Total # of seasons
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	7 Seasons
Angel	5 Seasons
Firefly	1 Season
Torchwood	4 Seasons
Merlin	5 Seasons
Camelot	1 Season
Misfits	5 Seasons
Being Human (UK)	5 Seasons
Almost Human	1 Season
Breaking Bad	5 Seasons
Constantine	1 Season
Gracepoint	Miniseries
Da Vinci's Demons	3 Seasons
Jekyll & Hyde	1 Season
Freaks and Geeks	1 Season
River	Miniseries
Agent Carter	2 Seasons
Banshee	4 Seasons
Penny Dreadful	3 Seasons
Residue	Miniseries
Class (Doctor Who Spin-off)	1 Season
Marvel's Inhumans	1 Season
Marvel's The Defenders	1 Season
Marvel's Luke Cage	2 Seasons
Marvel's Iron Fist	2 Seasons
Watership Down (Animated)	Miniseries
Game of Thrones	8 Seasons
The Gifted	2 Seasons
Chernobyl	Miniseries
Marvel's Daredevil	3 Seasons
Arrow	8 Seasons
Marvel's The Punisher	2 Seasons
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels	1 Season
Battlestar Galactica	4 Seasons
Supernatural	15 Seasons
Queen's Gambit	Miniseries
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina	4 Seasons
Legion	3 Seasons
WandaVision	Miniseries
Black Lightning	4 Seasons
Marvel's Runaways	3 Seasons
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	7 Seasons
Lucifer	6 Seasons
Star Wars: Visions	Anthology
Marvel's Cloak & Dagger	2 Seasons
Supergirl	6 Seasons
Lost in Space	3 Seasons
Batwoman	3 Seasons
DC's Legends of Tomorrow	7 Seasons
The Falcon and the Winter Solder	Miniseries
Hawkeye	Miniseries
Dopesick	Miniseries
Black Sails	4 Seasons
DC's Stargirl	3 Seasons
The Witcher: Blood Origin	Miniseries
Moon Knight	Miniseries
His Dark Materials	3 Seasons
She-Hulk	1 Season
Carnival Row	2 Seasons
Star Trek: Picard	3 Seasons
DC Titans	4 Seasons
The Flash	9 Seasons
The Book of Boba Fett	1 Season
Obi-Wan Kenobi	1 Season
Secret Invasion	Miniseries
Gotham Knights	1 Season
Heels (Starz / Stan)	2 Seasons
Shadow and Bone	2 Seasons
Loki	2 Seasons
Doom Patrol	4 Seasons
Marvel's Echo	Miniseries
Star Wars: The Acolyte	1 Season
Sweet Tooth	3 Seasons
The Umbrella Academy	4 Seasons
Dead Boy Detectives	1 Season
Agatha All Along	1 Season 1 / Miniseries
Arcane (League of Legends)	2 Seasons
KAOS	1 Season
Superman & Lois	4 Seasons
Wheel of Time	3 Seasons
Andor	2 Seasons
The Sandman	2 Seasons

DNF (Did Not Finish)

Shows that I may or may not ever be up to date with for various reasons.

Some of these shows I've seen a few seasons of but haven't caught up, others I've only watched a couple of episodes, and a select few I started watching ages ago but never finished. And there's also the shows that can be watched less religiously, so I don't even know how many of the episodes I've seen or haven't seen.

• Star Trek: Discovery (Season 2/-)
• Humans (Season 2/3)
• The Blacklist (Season 4/-)
• Gotham (Season 3/5)
• Blindspot (Season 2/5)
• Poldark (Season 2/5)
• Person of Interest (Season 3/5)
• House of Cards (Season 3/6)
• Dollhouse (Season 2/2)
• Elementary (Season 1/7)
• Grimm (Season 2/6)
• Dark Angel (Season 2/2)
• Heroes (Season 3/5)
• Heroes Reborn (Season 1/1)
• Frontier (Season 2/3)

• Lost
• V
• Ringer
• Dracula (2013)
• Big Bang Theory
• Bones
• House
• Two and a Half Men