My 2017 – Listicle

In the spirit of routines and trying to buck some of the frustration that comes with this season, I am again putting out a series of reflection and planning posts, including this listicle, a reflective essay, by the numbers, and a best of 2017.

Getting back into the swing of things, 2015 and 2016.

For 2017:

Three international news stories I’m following going into this year

• Ongoing crises in Turkey, including terrorist attacks, the war in Syria, and centralization of power
• Refugee crises around the world, particularly the continuing plight of people living in camps on the Greek islands.
• Really, this list could go on, but almost everything I’m following is too depressing to mention

Six favorite books that I read in 2017

• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
• We, Yevgeni Zamyatin
• The City and the City, China Mieville
• The End of Days, Jenny Erpenbeck
• But What If We’re Wrong, Chuck Klostermann

Five Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading in 2018 [To my shame, there are two repeats from 2016]

• 1493, Charles A. Mann
• Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig
• Assassin’s Quest, Robin Hobb
• Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Sugar Street, Naguib Mahfouz

Four movies I saw in theaters in 2017 that were totally worth the price of admission

• Wonder Woman
• Get Out
• Kedi
• Blade Runner 2049

Four TV Shows I have been watching (or watched) in 2017

• The Good Place
• Brooklyn 99
• Shameless
• The Vietnam War

Three music groups I’ve newly been listening to in 2017

• Tristan Prettyman
• The Bangles
• Lake Street Dive

Two books I once started, but didn’t finish…that I’d like to give another shot in 2017 [No change from 2016]

• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• Bleak House, Charles Dickens

One achievement unlocked in 2017

• Doctor of the Philosophy of History