Every year, I compile a list of the various forms of media I’ve consumed, along with a few other important details about the year in review. Previously, I’ve published this on Dreamwidth/Livejournal, but one thing I’ve come to realise this year is that those types of blogging are now firmly in my past. So here’s my 2018 in review: WordPress-style.
Books 2018
* Re-read
January
1. Brian Michael Bendis & Stuart Immonen: All-New X-Men: Yesterday’s X-Men
2. Nancy Armstrong: Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
3. Michael Wilding: Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall: A Documentary
4. Patricia Stubbs: Women & Fiction: Feminism & the Novel 1880-1920
5. Philippa Gregory: Three Sisters, Three Queens
6. Lorna Read: Love Cheat
7. Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar: The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
8. Fergus Hume: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
9. Mary Fortune / Lucy Sussex (ed): The Fortunes of Mary Fortune
10. Cathy Hopkins: From Geek to Goddess
11. Martha Nell Smith: Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson
February
12. Ken Gelder & Rachael Weaver (eds): The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction
13. Carrie Fisher: The Princess Diarist
14. Angelique Richardson (ed): Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women 1890-1914
15. Emma Donoghue: Room
March
16. John Reid, John Chisolm & Max Harris: Ballaarat: Golden City
17. Weston Bate: Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat 1851-1901
April
18. Henry Gyles Turner: The Captive of Gippsland
19. Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins, James Wyatt et al: D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide
20. James Wyatt, Robert J. Schwalb & Bruce R. Cordell: D&D Player’s Guide
May
21. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe [100 books]
22. Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why
June
23. Gary Corby: Death Ex Machina
24. Kay Daniels (ed): So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History
25. Francine Pascal: Surprise! Surprise! *
26. Francine Pascal: Runaway Hamster *
27. Francine Pascal: The Twins’ Mystery Teacher
28. Francine Pascal: Elizabeth’s Valentine
29. Francine Pascal: Jessica’s Cat Trick
July
30. Francine Pascal: Jessica’s Big Mistake
31. Francine Pascal: Jessica’s Zoo Adventure
32. Francine Pascal: Elizabeth’s Super-Selling Lemonade
33. Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley Trick or Treat
34. Raelene Frances & Bruce Scates: Women at Work in Australia: From the Gold Rushes to World War II
35. Beverley Kingston (ed): The World Moves Slowly: A Documentary History of Australian Women
36. Francine Pascal: Crybaby Lois
37. Francine Pascal: Starring Winston Egbert
38. Francine Pascal: The Case of the Secret Santa
39. Francine Pascal: Jessica the Baby-Sitter
40. Francine Pascal: Jessica the TV Star
41. Kelly Gardiner: Goddess
42. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Epistemology of the Closet
43. Emma Donoghue: The Wonder
August
44. Michael Ryan: Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction
45. Gregory Castle: The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
46. Rita Felski: Literature After Feminism
47. Judith Butler: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
48. Noreen Giffney & Michael O’Rourke (eds): The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory
49. Diane Richardson, Janice McLaughlin & Mark E. Casey (eds): Intersections Between Feminist and Queer Theory
50. Judith Butler: Undoing Gender
51. Liane Merciel: Last Flight
52. Chiara Beccalossi: Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920
September
53. Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
54. Orita: From Darkness Unto Light
55. Michel Foucault: The History of Sexuality, vol. 1: An Introduction
56. Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
57. Emma Donoghue: The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
58. Karen Hohne & Helen Wussow (eds): A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin
59. Mikhail M. Bakhtin: The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
October
60. Jo Baker: Longbourn
61. Francine Pascal: Lila’s Secret
61. Francine Pascal: The Twins and the Wild West
62. Francine Pascal: Fearless Elizabeth
63. Francine Pascal: Caroline’s Mystery Dolls
64. Francine Pascal: Bossy Steven
65. Francine Pascal: Jessica and the Jumbo Fish
66. Francine Pascal: The Twins Go to the Hospital
67. Francine Pascal: Jessica and the Spelling-Bee Surprise
November
68. Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley Slumber Party
69. Francine Pascal: Lila’s Haunted House Party
70. Emma Donoghue: Kissing the Witch
71. Francine Pascal: Cousin Kelly’s Family Secret
72. Francine Pascal: The Case of the Magic Christmas Bell
73. Francine Pascal: Left-Out Elizabeth
74. Francine Pascal: Jessica’s Snobby Club
75. Francine Pascal: The Sweet Valley Cleanup Team
76. Francine Pascal: Elizabeth Meets Her Hero
December
77. Jaclyn Moriarty: Feeling Sorry for Celia *
Short Stories 2018
February
1. John Lang: “The Ghost upon the Rail”
2. Marcus Clarke: “The Mystery of Major Molineux”
3. Mary Fortune: “Mystery and Murder” (from Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer, No. VI)
4. Ernest Favenc: “A Hunt of the Jinkarras (A Fearsome Story of Central Australia)”
5. Ernest Favenc: “Doomed”
6. Rosa Campbell Praed: “The Bunyip”
7. Francis Adams: “The Hut by the Tanks”
8. Henry Lawson: “The Bush Undertaker (or A Christmas in the Far West)
9. Price Warung: “The Pegging-Out of Overseer Franke”
10. Hume Nisbet: “The Haunted Station”
11. Guy Boothby: “With Three Phantoms”
12. Coo-ee (William Sylvester Walker): “The Evil of Yelcomorn Creek”
13. Mary Gaunt: “The Lost White Woman”
14. Oscar Wilde: “The Sphinx without a Secret”
15. Olive Schreiner: “The Buddhist Priest’s Wife”
16. Mona Caird: “The Yellow Drawing Room”
17. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
18. George Egerton: “A Cross Line”
19. Kate Chopin: Desiree’s Baby
20. Borgia Smudgiton: She-Notes
21. Kate Chopin: A Pair of Silk Stockings
22. Clarence Rook: The Stir Outside the Cafe Royal
23. Sarah Grand: When the Door Opened–
24. Kate Chopin: The Storm
25. Sarah Grand: A New Sensation
26. Kate Chopin: An Egyptian Cigarette
27. Pauline Hopkins: Talma Gordon
28. George Gissing: A Daughter of the Lodge
29. Zitkala-Sa: A Warrior’s Daughter
30. George Moore: The Wedding Feast
31. Edith Wharton: The Reckoning
32. Virginia Woolf: Phyllis and Rosamond
33. Katherine Mansfield: Leves Amores
34. Katherine Mansfield: The Tiredness of Rosabel
35. Evelyn Sharp: Filling the War Chest
36. Evelyn Sharp: The Game That Wasn’t Cricket
37. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Turned
38. Katherine Mansfield: The Advanced Lady
39. Gertrude Colmore: George Lloyd
40. Gertrude Colmore: The Woman in the Corner
41. Mary Samuel Daniel: Jimmy’s Afternoon
42. Saki: The Schartz-Metterklume Method
43. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: If I Were a Man
March
44. PAWQUAW: The Story of the Chimes
45. Simon Simple: A Lunatic’s Ball
46. Anonymous: Syringing the Lunatic
47. Anonymous: In the condemned cell of a northern gaol…
48. M.T. Caldor: Her Grandmother’s Brocade
49. Anonymous: An Opal Ring
50. M.A.H.: Haines’ Misfortunes
51. M.A.H.: The Widow Plummer
52. John Frederick Smith: Marianne, A Tale of the Temple
53. Anon: Fifteen—Fourteen—Thirteen
54. Anon: “Per C.”
55. Anon: The Bunch of Violets
56. A.N.P: An Acrobat’s Invention
57. Benet Saucy: A Story of Social Silence
58. Anon: A Rose of Sharon
59. Annie Robertson Nixon: Barbara
60. Anon: Bill Bowker’s Triumph
61. Anon: Faint Heart and Fair Lady
April
62. Robin Goodfellow: A Remarkable Adventure in Germany
63. X. X.: Mabel’s Honeymoon
64. Em. Quad: Forging the Chain
65. Anon: The Duel
66. Anon: A Really Good Case
67. Anon: The Runaway Ship
68. Anon: For Better or for Worse
69. Anon: The Cackle Affair
May
70. Anon: Her Rival
71. Anon: “Fire!”
June
72. Anon: “A Broken Heart”
73. John Baker Hopkins: “A Rogue of the Period”
74. Anon: “Taken by Storm”
75. Julian Hawthorne: “Mad Love”
76. Anon: “The Grewelthorpe Feud”
77. Mary Elizabeth: “One Midsummer Night”
78. R.G. Frasks: “The Emerald Ring”
July
79. Anon: “How Jervis Made His Fortune”
80. Smith Jones: “My Wife’s New Friend”
August
81. Orita: “Two of Our Girls”
September
82. Orita: “Fairy’s Gift”
83. Orita: “Regained!: A Story of Two Christmas Eves”
84. Orita: “Ivy Raynor’s Christmas”
85. Anon: “Departed This Life”
October
86. Mary Clarke: “Turned to Ice”
Plus 108 slush short stories for Luna.
Poetry 2018
March
1. Neanthes: In Articulo Mortis
2. Anon: A Drawing Room Ballad
3. S. Old: The Cup of Confession
4. Anon: The Newspaper Man
5. Neanthes: Faltering Affection
6. No.241: The Cabby’s Lament
7. Neanthes: A Voice from the Past
8. Thomas Patterson: Gippsland
9. A. Daptor: Bessie Brewed a Pot O’ Tea
10. Neanthes: Lost Love
11. Neanthes: My Christmas Gift
12. Neanthes: The Postman’s Plea
13. Icicle: The Flirtation
14. Justitia: The Shepherd and the Liberal Squatter
15. Anon: Papa, What Are Newspapers?
16. Icicle: Such is Life
17. Neanthes: Blighted Love
18. Icicle: Waiting
19. Bob Cattnach Jr: A Regular Doleful Ballad
20. Icicle: A Common Complaint
21. Neanthes: To My Love of Bygone Days
22. Neanthes: Thoughts on Marriage
23. Neanthes: Unrequited Love
24. M.E. Doig: The Universal Anthem
25. Anon: A Song For These Times
26. Neanthes: Yet Stay With Me My Own Sweet Treasure
27. Anon: A True Lover
28. Neanthes: A Pleasing Matinade
29. Neanthes: To Mary Ann
30. Neanthes: Love’s Comparisons
31. Neanthes: The Difficulty Solved
32. Neanthes: The Roving Tinker
33. Neanthes: A Serenade
April
34. Josephine Pollard: The Funny Story
35. Anon: An Old Story
36. Judy: An Epps-Ode
June
37. Mrs Emma Thornton: “Send a Message Often Home”
September
38. Orita: “Christmas Day”
39. Orita: “Chrismas”
40. Orita: “Memory’s Chimes”
41. Val Visor: “Mary Jane”
October
42. L.F.: “My Bob, or Innocence”
43. L.F.: “Jaco’s Death”
44. L.E.: “The Village Church”
45. L.E.: “The New Baby”
46. L.E.: “Marion, or The Master Wants the Best”
47. Anon: “The Blind Boy’s Dream”
48. Anon: “The Lovers”
49. Anon: “A Scene from London Life”
50. J.B.: “Bright’s Bright Idea”
51. Anon: “The Two Grenadiers”
Journal Articles, Essays and Academic Book Chapters 2018
January
1. Emily Turner: “Darwin, Photography, and the ‘Screaming Victorians’ of Anthony Rhys’s Visual Biofiction or; Whose Biofiction Is It Anyway?”
2. Judith Brett: “Preface”
3. Lucy Sussex: “What the Mischief Does a Bonnet Want Here?: An Introduction to Mary Fortune (Waif Wander)”
4. Mary Fortune: “Twenty-six Years Ago or The Diggings from ’55”
5. Mary Fortune: “Fourteen Days on the Road”
6. Mary Fortune: “Looking for Lodgings”
7. Mary Fortune: “How I Spent Christmas”
8. Mary Fortune: “Down Bourke Street”
9. Jil Larson: “Sexual Ethics in Fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman Writers”
February
10. Ken Gelder & Rachael Weaver: “The Colonial Australian Gothic”
11. Angelique Richardson: “Introduction” to Women Who Did
12. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
June
13. Kay Daniels: “Introduction”
14. Kay Daniels: “Prostitution in Tasmania during the transition from penal settlement to ‘civilized’ society”
15. Susan Horan: “More Sinned Against Than Sinning?: Prostitution in South Australia, 1836-1914”
16. Raymond Evans: “‘Soiled Doves’: Prostitution in Colonial Queensland”
17. Raelene Davidson: “Dealing with the ‘Social Evil’: Prostitution and the Police in Perth and on the Eastern Goldfields, 1895-1924.”
18. Judith Allen: “Dealing with the ‘Social Evil’: Prostitution and the Police in Perth and on the Eastern Goldfields, 1895-1924.”
19. Ann McGrath: “‘Black Velvet’: Aboriginal Women and Their Relations with White Men in the Northern Territory, 1910-40”
20. Helen Mills: “Prostitution and the Law”
21. Anne Bickford: “‘Working’: An Interview with Betty N.”
July
22. Elizabeth M Coker: “Narrative Strategies in Medical Discourse: Constructing the Psychiatric “Case” in a Non-Western Setting”
August
23. Adrienne Rich: “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”
24. Adrienne Rich: “Revisiting “Compulsory Heterosexuality””
25. Zoe Anderson: “Queer(ing) History: Queer Methodologies, Pedagogies and Interventions in the Discipline of History”
26. Judith M. Bennett: “‘Lesbian-Like’ and the Social History of Lesbianisms”
27. Oliver Penfold: “A Case of Man-Personification by a Woman”
28. Anon: “The Recent Case of Smith v. Iffla”
29. Anon: “The Recent Case of Smith v. Iffla (continued)”
30. Anon: “Hearing of Appeal”
31. J. De Burgh Griffith: “Puerperal Insanity:”
32. Anon: “Ordinary Monthly Meeting: Wednesday, September 5th, 1883”
33. Anon: “Lunatic Asylums and Their Administration”
34. Anon: “Hospitals for the Insane”
35. James V. McCreery: “Surgical Operations on the Insane”
October
37. W. Beattie Smith: “Case of Choreic Insanity”
38. James De Burgh Griffith: “Lunatics in Private Practice”
39. W. Moore: “Notes of a Visit to the Kew Asylum”
40. W. Balls-Headley: “Case of Chronic Puerperal Mania—Laceration & Granular Os—Trachelorhaphy—Immediate Recovery”
41. James Jamieson: “Sex in Health and Disease”
Movies 2018
* = cinema
+ = repeat viewing
January
1.Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
2. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
3. Jupiter Ascending (2015)
4. Tomorrowland (2015)
February
5. Urge (2016)
March
6. Extraterrestrial (2014)
7. The Way of the Wicked (2014)
8. Sound of My Voice (2011)
9. Black Panther (2018) *
10. Spy (2015)
11. Dark Places (2015)
April
12. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) +
13. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
14. Doctor Strange (2016)
15. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)
16. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
17. Atomic Blonde (2017)
18. Sister Act (1992) +
May
19. Split (2016)
20. It (2017)
21. The Greatest Showman (2017)
22. The Queen (2006)
June
23. The Room
24. Cherry Falls +
July
25. Jurassic Park (1993) +
26. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
27. Get Out (2017)
August
28. Rough Night (2017)
29. The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016)
30. Carol (2015)
31. Eat Locals (2017)
32. Self/less (2015)
33. Viral (2016)
November
34. A Quiet Place (2018)
35. Emo the Musical (2016)
36. Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
December
37. Birdbox (2018)
Television 2018
Not a comprehensive list of all TV watched – I’ll probably have forgotten a few things.
>> 8 Out of 10 Cats
>> 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
>> Ally McBeal (s2)
>> American Horror Story (s4)
>> Bates Motel (s3)
>> The Big Painting Challenge
>> Border Security
>> Botched
>> Britain’s Next Top Model
>> Catfish (s1-5)
>> The Chase
>> Critical Role
>> Dad’s Army
>> Eggheads
>> Finding Prince Charming (s1)
>> First Dates
>> Friday Night Dinner
>> Fringe (s1)
>> Have I Got News For You
>> The IT Crowd (s3-4 & special)
>> Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier
>> Judge Judy
>> Masterchef Australia
>> Masterchef Netherlands
>> Masters of Sex
>> Mock the Week
>> Nailed It! (s1-2)
>> Parks and Recreation (s2)
>> Pointless
>> QI
>> Rick & Morty
>> Room 101
>> Ru Paul’s Drag Race (Allstars s3, s10)
>> Scream Queens (s1)
>> Skin Wars (s1-2)
>> Star Trek: The Next Generation
>> Taskmaster
>> Tattoo Fixers
>> UnREAL (s1)
>> Winter Olympics
>> World Cup
Games 2018
* Finished previously
January
1. PS3: Dragon Age 2 (full DLC) *
February
2. XB1: Mass Effect: Andromeda
March
3. 360: Mass Effect (full DLC) *
4. 360: Mass Effect 2 (full DLC) *
August
5. XB1: Dragon Age: Inquisition (full DLC) *
September
6. 360: Mass Effect 3 (full DLC) *
7. X-Box: Jade Empire
November
8. PS3: Dragon Age Origins (partial DLC) *
9. 360: Mass Effect 1 (full DLC) *
10. 360: Bioshock 2
December
11. X-Box: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Theatre 2018
1. 13th January – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Playhouse Theatre, Melbourne)
2. 3rd February – The Children (MTC)
3. 18th February – Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Regent Theatre, Melbourne)
4. 4th March – American Idiot (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne)
5. 17th March – Abigail’s Party (MTC, Melbourne)
6. 24th March – Bare (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne)
7. 8th April – Violet (Fab Nobs Theatre, Bayswater)
8. 4th May – Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre, London)
9. 15th May – Blood Brothers (Palace Theatre, Manchester)
10. 20th May – The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre, London)
11. 21st May – Hamilton (Victoria Palace, London)
12. 22nd May – Les Miserables (Queen’s Theatre, London)
13. 26th May – The House of Bernado Alba (Fairfax Studio, Melbourne)
14. 27th May – Oklahoma! (State Theatre, Melbourne)
15. 16th June – Bring It On (Athenaeum, Melbourne)
16. 14th July – On My Way (Essendon Masonic Hall, Melbourne)
17. 19th July – An Ideal Husband (MTC, Melbourne)
18. 11th August – A Doll’s House, Part 2 (MTC, Melbourne)
19. 12th August – The Boy From Oz (State Theatre, Melbourne)
20. 1st September – Mamma Mia (Princess Theatre, Melbourne)
21. 22nd September – Horror (Playhouse, Melbourne)
22. 29th September – Never Ending Night (Collingwood Car Park)
23. 14th October – Jekyll and Hyde (National Theatre, St Kilda)
24. 20th October – The Witches of Eastwick (Fab Nobs Theatre, Bayswater)
25. 4th November – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (State Theatre, Melbourne)
26. 12th November – Twelth Night (MTC, Melbourne)
27. 6th December – Evita (State Theatre, Melbourne)
Concerts 2018
1. 6th June – Extreme & Mr Big (Forum, Melbourne)
Comedy 2018
1. 29th March – Sophie Willan (Town Hall, Melbourne)
2. 30th March – David O’Doherty (Forum, Melbourne)
3. 1st April – Lano & Woodley (Playhouse, Melbourne)
4. 30th October – Griff Rhys Jones (Athenaeum, Melbourne)
5. 21st November – Colin, Brad & Greg (Hamer Hall, Melbourne)
Important Dates 2018
17th March – Anne-Marie and Josee’s wedding
19th April to 4th May – Netherlands
21st April – Copenhagen
4th May to 24th May – UK
3rd July to 7th July – Canberra
8th September – Hails and Dianne’s wedding
24th October – PhD Confirmed
Publications 2018
1. January – “Ashes to Ashes” in Breath and Shadow
2. 19th June – “The Bomb Chaser” in Daily Science Fiction
3. 14th July – “Ashes” in Knee-Deep in Grit (reprint)
Places Visited 2018
International: Belgium, Denmark, England, Netherlands, Wales
National: Canberra, Sydney
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