Theme: “What is a thing? What is the difference between people and things?” with a focus on identity, commodification, alienation, and even AI

List is not yet completed or in the correct order

Films (in order): Wen Muye, “Dying to Survive” (2018) Spike Jonze, “Her” (2013) Hayao Miyazaki, “The Boy and the Heron” (2023)

List currently not in the correct order and is a wip

Other readings and films for the class will be written in this description (wip)

Due to the nature of this prof’s syllabus, we read specific selections from larger texts. I’ll note specifics at a later time

Food and drink on the cover or in the title. Apparently there's a lot?

This is one of my favourite movie genres so I thought I’d make a list for books!

Whether it be the authors, the characters, the setting, or the country itself, these books are some of the essential reads of Aotearoa New Zealand. Fiction to nonfiction, prose to poetry, the stories of our people and our land are here. This list is ever-growing, and I will continue to add to it as I read more pukapuka from our shores.

books that center around characters revisiting their schools or school days as an adult/alum looking for more suggestions!!

She’s and they’s with a certain appetite. No zombies included without sentience.

Recommendations and suggestions welcome!

Multiple or dissociated selves/minds, one body. Intentionally and unintentionally written. (Mainly what I found relatable. Excluded stories where it's a reveal.)

My book club read different books on the topic "odd jobs/ vocations". These are the books people chose to read.

Tired of prodigy chosen ones? Here are some books about the most pathetic losers known to man.

Fiction and nonfiction talking about the intricacies of queer parenting, children's novels with queer parents, memoirs, and adult fiction. Recs always welcome

2026 is merciless. We lost another one, people. Pour one out for a legend. I'm devastated. Clue is one of my all-time favorite movies. I saw Rocky Horror Picture Show on the Queen Mary when I was in high school. They wrote slut on my chest and had me perform sapphic erotica for the audience. I had misread the vibe and was wearing a sailor suit my friend had cut the legs and crotch out of. It was an incredible (eye-opening) evening for me. We will miss you so much, Tim.

Books written by or about the late and great Dolly Parton. She was such a talented, gorgeous, caring person.

"In your high heeled boots and your painted on jeans, all decked out like a cowgirl's dream..." - Dolly Parton

Books where sexy ankles get the attention they deserve!

Also includes hurt/comfort with ankle-related injuries, because why not!

a little magic and/or just cozy.

Various fantasy trilogies that I've been told about over and over

All the books we’ve read in our horror book club 📖🔪🖤

Books were we go to Graveyards, cemetery and places with marked graves.