Book, movie, TV goals: 2014

Book Goals 2014        

• Read 40 books
• Read 5 Classics
• Read The Infernal Devices Trilogy
• Read the Harry Potter Series (again)
• Read The Heroes of Olympus Series
• Read different genres
• Read 5 books over 500 pages

Movie Goals 2014      

• Watch 200 movies
• Watch Different movie genres
• Watch at least 150 movies I have never seen
• Watch the Star wars Saga
• Watch at least 4 movies by Spielberg
• Watch 5 or more movies by Hitchcock
• Watch 5 movies over 3 hours long

Television Goals 2014

• Watch 15 new shows
• Watch 5 or more British Shows
• Watch 10 or more American shows
• Watch Doctor who series 1- Christmas special 2013 (again)
• Watch Firefly
• Watch Elementary
• Watch 2 shows with 4 or more seasons

Top 5 favourite TV shows

Hello! So as I said before in my last blog, I will be doing a post of my top 5 favourite TV shows, I have not chosen ten because probably at the end of January my list will probably change a lot due to my busy schedule of watching 6 new shows in January!

SO in descending order.

5.

Doctor Who is an amazing show, and even if I prefer Tennant's era, I still love this show so much and it still remains in a special place in my heart, and the 2013 christmas special, enough said.

4. 

Parks and Recreation is probably the funniest show on tv, it is just hilarious and the actors (especially Aubrey Plaza) are just the funniest people ever. The first season is just terrible and tries to be 'The Office 2.0' but the second season is when the show finds it's own way and becomes one of the best sitcoms ever.

3. 

Now Community may not be as funny as Parks and Recreation, but the characters in Community stay with you for longer, the characters (well most characters) are likeable and the greendale 7 (watch the show and you will get this joke) feels like a family that you are part of. The best characters are Troy, Abed and Annie and even if Troy is going to leave in the next season, hopefully this show will still be top notch.

2. 

The Walking Dead used to be my favourite show ever, Season 1 was just spectacular and was probably the best season of them all (even if it only had 6 episodes), I loved Season 2 even more, but lots of people didn't like that season. Season 3 was really good as well, Now season 4 is where i'm a bit annoyed with this show, the first episode of season 4 promised a new start and was incredible, however the episodes after that were just boring and un-rememberable. But this being said, the mid-season finale was just wonderful and very gory! Hopefully the next 8 episodes of Season 4 are much better!

1.

So I just Binge-watched the 6 90 minute episodes of Sherlock, So all together I watched 9 hours of Sherlock, and it still wasn't enough, Now a would I thought that a show with only 6 episodes (however they were movie length) would be my favourite show ever, well I was wrong. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are some of the best characters in fiction, and never was I bored with this show, every episode was perfect in it's own way, and Series 3 is coming soon, well it is only 3 episodes again (NO!!!) My favourite episode has to be The Reichenbach Fall, the ending cliffhanger though left me distraught for hours! Imagine the people that watched it when it first came out (2 years ago!), hopefully though, there wont be a massive gap between series 3 and series 4!

SO that is my top 5 favourite TV shows, in the next few days, I will post my top 5 favourite movies of 2013!                                                                    Bye for now!

Updates: Goals for 2014

Hello! It has been a long, very long while since I have last written a blog! December was a very busy month and so I didn't get any reading done. I have noticed for the past couple of months, I have not been reading much and have been doing other things such as binge-watching tv shows, consistently watching movies and just eating a huge amount of popcorn. This made me realise that I don't just want to talk about books all the time, I want to share my love for movies and tv shows. This is why in 2014, The Dauntless Community is not just going to be about books anymore, there will be reviews about movies, lists of the best new shows, recommendations for people who love [insert tv show here] and a variety of different blogs. Obviously I am still going to review books and tell you about some interesting novels coming out soon (look forward to my Most anticipated reads for 2014) but I just want switch things up a bit for the better, and things are going to be changed (for the better!)

Here are my goals for 2014 to make 'The Dauntless Community' a much better blog!

1. At least one post every week.
2. Talk about books, tv shows, and movies.
3. Review 1 book, 1 tv show and 2 movies a month
4. Try to read more so I can discuss more books on this blog!
5. Keep my viewers (you) entertained!

So here are my goals, most likely the 1st and the 3rd won't happen often, but I hope these goals will help this blog to be better and so more people can view it!

Look forward to my top 5 favourite Tv shows which will be posted today!

December Book of the Month!

Hello!
So there are 3 books we are going to be reading in December, all 3 of them are different but all interesting and exciting! So behold the books chosen for December BOTM!


172 hours on the moon by Johan Harstad


Format: Hardback
Publisher: Little, Brown books
First Published: September 15th 2008 
Goodreads Rating: 3.58 stars
My excitement to read: 7.8
Pages: 355

It's been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASA's unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about to become the first young people in space--and change their lives forever.
Mia, from Norway, hopes this will be her punk band's ticket to fame and fortune.
Midori believes it's her way out of her restrained life in Japan.
Antoine, from France, just wants to get as far away from his ex-girlfriend as possible.
It's the opportunity of a lifetime, but little do the teenagers know that something sinister is waiting for them on the desolate surface of the moon. And in the black vacuum of space... no one is coming to save them.
In this chilling adventure set in the most brutal landscape known to man, highly acclaimed Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad creates a vivid and frightening world of possibilities we can only hope never come true.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

One of the best-loved and most quoted stories of “the man who invented Christmas”—English writer Charles Dickens—A Christmas Carol debuted in 1843 and has touched millions of hearts since. 

Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn’t like...and hardly a man he does. And he hates Christmas most of all. When Scrooge is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, he learns eternal lessons of charity, kindness, and goodwill. Experience a true Victorian Christmas!









The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
First Published: April 17th 2013
Goodreads rating: 4.08 stars
My excitement to read: 10/10
Pages: 457

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.