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2012 #3

All the books I read 2012 were first-time books. I haven't read them before and I'm really exited about this. 2012 just had not enough spare time to read as many books as I wanted, and the number of books I actually read is depressing low. 41- ouch. That's the best I could do? Embarrassing. I've done better.
Otherwise, I had final exams, a lot of stress in school and now university.

Yet, I missed my other books. I have a few favorite books I like to read very often and I hadn't have time for them. 

Do you miss books, stories, characters, places too? It sometimes hurt to think about them, unable to read them, and you really want to go back to them. 2013 will be a year with a lot of old friends. 

Here is the list of books I read this year and some comments to them. 

3. Lord of the Rings Trilogy - ♥♥♥♥♥

5. Chill mal, Frau Freitag – Voll streng, Frau Freitag - I liked the first one more than the second one, but they are both funny and so, so true! ♥♥♥

8. The Hunger Games Trilogy - ♥♥♥♥♥

9. The Host - I was suprised about HOW good it was! ♥♥♥♥

13. The Iron King, The Iron Daughter, The Iron Queen, The Iron Knight - I quite enjoyed them. Typicall fantasy girl romance ♥♥♥

14. The Shining - I can't handle Stephen King. I was scared out of my mind. ♥♥♥♥

15. Cujo - ♥♥♥♥

16. Man tut was man kann - The funniest book I read the whole year. I cried because it was so funny! ♥♥♥♥♥

17. Arschgeweih - ♥

18. 'Salem's Lot - ♥♥♥♥

21. Trylle Triology - fantasy girl romance. but cute and with a plot twist! ♥♥♥

23. Schuld & Verbrechen - do yourself a favour and read them! ♥♥♥♥

24. 3096 Tage - I don't want to sound mean by saying this, but I thought it was so boring. ♥♥

25. Fear Street - ♥♥

26. Blutspur - ♥♥♥

27. Die Einsamkeit der Primzahlen - I don't know why so many people go crazy because of this book. I didn't like it at all! ♥

28. Mieses Karma - ♥♥♥

29. dicke möpse - ♥♥

30. Fettnäpfchenführer Japan - ♥♥♥

31. Monika B - It was disgusting and so wrong. I can't get over her story. Read it. It's scary as hell. ♥♥♥♥♥

33. Gut gegen Nordwind & Alle sieben Wellen - ♥♥♥♥

34. Gefährliche Geliebte - ♥♥♥♥

37. Fifty Shades Triology - Ok, I read them 'cause I always think you can't hate what you never read. So I did it. I read it. It was worse than I thought. It's not only that she is unable to write and you can see that it was a Twilight fanfiction, no it also is one of the wrongest ways to describe a bdsm relationship. I don't want to say more to these books. I honestly can't understand how women can read and support this shit.

39. Star Wars Ep. 1&2 - ♥♥♥

40. Tintenherz - ♥♥♥

41. The Hobbit - ♥♥♥♥

2012 #2

Here some random things I enjoyed 2012 - TV-Shows, actors I will mainly drool over people I think are super hot - and random facts nobody really cares about:

♦ TV-Shows I enjoyed 2012

8^th season Supernatural, 4^th season Glee, Teen Wolf, Criminal Minds, The New Normal, 2 broke girls 

I want to introduce a lovely tv show to you.

Teen Wolf – It is my new drug. I watched it with Laura and we went crazy over it. It's not really normal how obssesed we got with it, but you grow to love it.

[Stiles and Derek - they will give you feels! also my OTP at the moment and the topic of the most fanfictions I read 2012]

At the moment there are two seasons with 12 episodes each and the plot what plot?? is a little.... Let's just say it's a show about High School students who acidentally become werewolfs? It's a lot of drama, love, hurt, angst, sexy shirtless teenagers the actors are all over 21 so don't feel bad about liking them!

They shoot season 3 at the moment and I can't wait. 

If you want a pain in the ass fandom and way more feels than you can handle, check this show out.

♦ my cat died.

This was probably the most horrible thing that happend to me in 2012. It broke my heart, I still don't really know how to handle it. I miss her badly and yes, I know she is "just" a cat.

♦ Idols

Lana Del Rey, Ryuuto

[Doesn't he look with his pink hair again?]

Lana Del Rey and Ryuuto [former ClearVeil, now Carat] are both very inspiring to me. I would love to look like them, be thin like them, be able to dress like them, act like them, be them. They were my 2012 idols and I'm pretty sure they will be my idols in 2013 as well. 

[Her face, her legs, her clothes!]

Thankfully, Ryuuto turned back to his old style with his new band, after the horrible things he did to himself and his music while being on his solo project. *caugh* 

♦ Celebrity Crushs

Dylan O'Brien, Katy Perry, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence

My long-time celebrity crush Katy Perry. 

[Katy ♥]

I think she is stunning, beautiful and even if I'm not very happy with her blue hair, it looks good on her. I espacially love her with Rihanna at the moment.

[I ship them. I ship them hard.]

Dylan O'Brien is a sweet 21-year-old actor. Known for his role as “Stiles” Stilinski in Teen Wolf watch it, watch it, WATCH IT!. I have to say I love his role more than I love him. I bet he is a nice person, but not like Stiles. So I would rather say, I have a crush in Stiles not on Dylan.

[Look at this face *_*]

The same goes with Matthew Gray Gubler. I think I'm more intrested in his role as Spencer Reid. Sorry.

I don't have to say anything to Jermey Renner and Jennifer Lawrence, do I? They are both hot, funny, perfect actors. 

[Jeremey Renner's body is.... I can't put it in words....]

Hopefully Jennifer will get the Oscar this year.

[I don't get why Hollywood calls her fat. What is wrong with humanity??]

♦ Comics/Manga

Death Note, Crash, Captain America, New Avengers, Avengers vs X-Men, Deadpool

I had a huge Death Note flash this year, so I bought the manga. In English.

Crash is a new mana series I started with. It is a Shojo-Manga and very cute. It's about a girl, who wants to cast a boyband. Lucky her nose starts to bleed whenever she sees talent. Soon she finds five boys, gets them to join the band and the trouble starts.

Unfortunatly in number 8 the story starts being told from a different perspective, from a different girl. I don't like her and I can't enjoy Crash anymore. Somehow this makes me sad.

I also started to buy American Comics more frequently.

The series I started are Captain America, Deadpool, New Avengers and Avengers vs X-Men comics. I can recommand all of them.

♦ Places

I didn't travel a lot in 2012.

We [Reiko and myself] spent the first week of the new year 2012 in Kyoto, it's been the last week of our Japan trip. Kyoto is a wonderful, beautiful city with lots of history. It was freezing cold and the food was so delicious. I hope to see this city again.

[some pictures from our Japan trip, only the last one is from Kyoto]

Soon after – still in January – I had a class trip to Rome. It's been my first time in the capitol of Italy and it was great. I had an awesome time with my school friends and I think Rome made Anna and my to hardcore buddies.

Sadly that's all the trips I did this year. Hopefully I'm able to do more trips in 2013. I would love to go to Paris or London.

♦ haven't had enough...

Wodka, Selbstdisziplien, USA, books, gay rights

2012 #1

Okay, yes I'm late. 

Anyhow I will do my 2012 report in three steps: movies I watched in the cinema, books I read and other important stuff.

2012 I watched 33 different movies in the cinema – yes, I'm only counting the ones I've seen in a movie theater – and I enjoyed most of them.

First of all, I enumerate them for you just in case you care, otherwise skip all the numbers and look at my voting/highlights :-)

They are organized by their release date, not the order I watched them. Yes, I mostly watch high-budget, mainstream, no-deeper-meaning movies and I LOVE it.

1. Intouchables

2. J. Edgar

3. Faust

4. Jack and Jill

5. Star Wars Episode I 3D

6. The Devil Inside

7. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

8. John Carter

9. Türkisch für Anfänger

10. The Hunger Games

11. Wrath of the Titans

12. Woman in Black

13. Iron Sky

14. Battleship

15. The Avengers

16. Dark Shadows

17. Men in Black 3

18. Snow White and the Huntsman

19. Street Dance 2

20. The Cabin in the Woods

21. Ice Age 4

22. Spiderman

23. The Dark Knight Rises

24. Ted

25. Prometheus

26. Total Recall

27. Magic Mike

28. The Expendables 2

29. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

30. Killing Them Softly

31. The Rise of the Guardians
32. Cloudatlas

33. The Hobbit

My personal highlights from 2012 and just because some aren't mentioned doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy them. I just liked others better. :

Favorite love movie: Türkisch für Anfänger

Favorite drama movie: J. Edgar, Cloudatlas

Favorite comedy movies: Men in Black, Intouchables

Favorite fantasy/sci-fi movie: John Carter

Favorite action movies: Battleship, Abraham Lincoln

Favorite horror movie: Cabin in the Woods

Favorite animated movie: Rise of the Guardians

Most epic movies: Avengers, Hobbit

Biggest disappointments of the year: Faust, Snow White and the Huntsman, Wrath of the Titans

Seen more than once in the cinema: Avengers (5x), Spiderman (3x), Hunger Games (3x)

Can't wait for:

Iron Man 2, Thor 2, Hungergames 2, Hobbit 2, Mortal Instruments, the Host, Star Trek 2, Hansel und Gretel: Witchhunter, Lone Ranger, The Wolverine