We all have pop culture blind spots. It might be that genre you barely read, or that movie you have been meaning to get to. I have been thinking about the books I read and what my own pop culture blind spots are. I am going to make an effort each year to help fill some of those blind spots and hopefully make my reading choices more varied and diverse than what I currently consume in the process.
With this goal in mind I launched #PopCultureResolutions.
I haven't read very many graphic novels, but the ones I have read I have mostly enjoyed. I am going to be reading 12 graphic novels throughout the year in hopes of closing that particular blind spot a little bit.
As for movies, I love musicals. There are a definitely some I haven't seen and so I am looking forward to rectifying that in 2022.
My twelve graphic novels are:
My schedule looks like this (and if anyone wants to read any of these as well, I am happy to chat about them). Each of them links to their Goodreads pages for more details.
January - Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity by Kami Garcia, Mico Suayan, Mike Mayhew (
goodreads)
February - Lore Olympus: Volume 1 by Rachel Smythe (
goodreads)
March - Saga: Volume One by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (
goodreads)
April - Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman (
goodreads)
May - Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda (
goodreads)
July - The Prince and The Dressmaker by Jen Wag (
goodreads)
August - V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd (
goodreads)
September - Lady Killer, Vol. 1 by Joëlle Jones, Jamie S. Rich (
goodreads)
October - Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu (
goodreads)
November - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Robert Hack (
goodreads)
December - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero’s Journey by D.J. Milky (
goodreads)
Here are the horror movies I am going to watch for this event:
The schedule for this will be as follows (and again, if anyone else wants to watch and chat just let me know).
January - West Side Story (1961)
February - Funny Face (1957)
March - A Star is Born (1954)
April - On The Town (1949)
May - Funny Girl (1968)
June - Sing Street (2016)
July - Cabaret (1972)
August - Dreamgirls (2006)
September - Anchor's Away (1945)
October - Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
November - Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
December - Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
What are your own pop culture blind spots? Have you read any of the books, or seen any of the movies that I am going to tackle this year? Let know in the comments.
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