2023 Year in Review + Journal Pages

[halfcactus]

Technically this should be a "top 2" because only Fallen Angels and Leonor Will Never Die made me feel connected from start to finish (Spider-Man: AtSV was also a 4.5/5 movie for me, but took a while to reel me in).

Books:

1. T. Kingfisher, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
   
2. Haiyan, 琅琊榜 Nirvana in Fire
   
3. Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
   
4. Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
   
5. Carla Kelly, With This Ring
   
6. Shisi, 小蘑菇 Little Mushroom vol1 (Chinese)
   
7. Shisi, 小蘑菇 Little Mushroom vol1 (English)
   
8. Shisi, 小蘑菇 Little Mushroom vol2 (Chinese)
   
9. Shisi, 小蘑菇 Little Mushroom vol2 (English)
   
10. Ted Chiang, Exhalations
    
11. Higashino Keigo, Salvation of a Saint
    
12. Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (Murderbot#3)
    
13. Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War
    
14. Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
    
15. a bunch of comics from Shortbox Comics Fair 2023 + Witch Hat Atelier vols 1-5

Movies & Music

Movies

1. Cherry Magic (2022)
   
2. 想見你 Someday or One Day (2022)
   
3. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
   
4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
   
5. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
   
6. 流浪地球 The Wandering Earth (2019)
   
7. Leonor Will Never Die (2022)
   
8. 回廊亭 Revival (2023)
   
9. 这么多年 All These Years (2023)
   
10. Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse (2023)
    
11. Elemental (2023)
    
12. 爱很美味 Delicious Romance (2023)
    
13. Nimona (2023)
    
14. Barbie (2023)
    
15. 关于我和鬼变成家人的那件事 Marry My Dead Body (2023)
    
16. Past Lives (2023)
    
17. 消失的她 Lost in the Stars (2022)
    
18. 人生大事 Lighting Up the Stars (2022)
    
19. 墮落天使 Fallen Angels (1995) (restored)
    
20. Bottoms (2023)
    
21. The Menu (2022)
    
22. 封神演義 Creation of the Gods 1 (2023)
    
23. Theater Camp (2023)
    
24. Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

Top songs:

Watch on YouTube

You've been running in my head
Won't you come see me instead
Sun rising in cherry red
Won't you stay with me this slow morning?

Watch on YouTube

心底的溫熱 像圍巾暖者
陪著你去飛 要你不孤單

*No collages for these ones*

TV

1. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (2018)
   
2. 想见你 Someday or One Day (2019)
   
3. 默读 audiodrama s5
   
4. No Doubt in Us S1 (2021)
   
5. Signal (2016)
   
6. New Life Begins (2022)
   
7. My Love Story with Yamada-Kun at Lv 999 (2023)
   
8. Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (2023)
   
9. Yong-Jiu Grocery Store (2019)
   
10. Skip and Loafer (2023)
    
11. Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)
    
12. Ripe Town (2023)
    
13. Romance on the Farm (2023)
    
14. An Ancient Love Song (2023)
    
15. Girls 5Eva (S1)
    
16. Led Astray By Love (2022)
    
17. Casual variety show watches: Our Inn, Young-Blooded Detectives, Time Concert: Old Friends

Theater

1. Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe “Casino Royale －My Name’s Bond－” (online stream)
   
2. The Last Five Years (Barefoot Theatre Collaborative)
   
3. Hamilton

Games

• Disco Elysium
  
  Tools used:
  
• Letterboxd Wrapped (3rd party year-in-review generator)
  
• Lastboxd (3rd party collage generator)
  
• StoryGraph Wrapped
  
• Last.FM Playback
  

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  I did most of these in January tbh! But the images and collages came from a "monthly summary" thread I updated throughout the year.
  
  January:
  
  
  February to May:
  
  
  February to May (WIP):
  
  
  June to October:
  
  
  November:
  [no image BUT I SWEAR I watched Hamilton this month - I lost my ticket haha]
  
  December:
  (switched to a new planner)
  
  
  
  
  
  Duck reference photo (they were so cute):