I spent Saturday bingeing Christmas-y TV and Movies including every holiday episode of Supestore (I really miss that show) shout out to Hulu for pulling those episodes. Also, Finding Mr Christmas is gonna be a really cute competition.
#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks
pickSpoilers abound in this book that examines a variety of tropes in pop culture/film & television. While I didn‘t find anything earth-shattering in the author‘s observations or conclusions, it did piss me off. Admittedly, I live in a rage-filled emotional state these days, but I‘m an American woman and all you have to do is look at our elected officials to understand the anger. The essence of the book is this: Fuck. The. Patriarchy.
pick...to make it look as if when we attack and destroy somebody we're really protecting and defending ourselves against major aggressors and monsters and so on.
pickIlluminating.
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
1. Last year, Universal Studios in Osaka Japan!
2. No. There's barely time to get to all the stuff we want to see/do/ride, let alone read.
Tag @RaeLovesToRead @CBee @Yuki_Onna @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @dabbe @Ruthiella @IndoorDame
pickI REALLY loved this book. Not only was a great insight into the show, the narrator was ON POINT with the voices!!!
#ThreeListThursday #TLT
I'm sure there's tons, but these are the first to spring to mind:
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
I Wanna Dance with Somebody - Whitney Houston
Modern Love/Let's Dance - David Bowie (I can't choose between them!)
@dabbe
so-soI never felt like the author had anything really all that insightful to say about the female character archetypes she sought to examine in this book. There were some sections more interesting to me than others, but I did find myself skimming a lot in some parts. The author‘s inclination to dissect historical/period characters from an intersectional/2024 modern feminist lens was flimsy at best and disingenuous at worst.
Next up in quarterly review faves: non-fiction and lit fic. Biggest surprise: all the nature non-fiction I've done in the last three months, none of it ended up sticking with me, and the reading experience/writing quality was really hit and miss. Might have to rethink sampling in that subgenre (no more picking it up because it has a tree on the cover! Literary fiction is never my primary genre, at least I read ONE I loved! 🤷🏼♂️
pickFucking fascinating. Maybe a little too much Freud. Apologies for the dreadful cover showing in your feed.
Carol J. Clover's 'Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film' remains one of my faves of the collection, I realize that's my final girl bias showing through.
I think I honestly enjoyed Thomas Doherty's 'Genre, Gender and The Aliens Trilogy' (written back when it was just a trilogy) because those films made such an impression on me. 1/?
