#lastblogsadpanda

I can't believe the semester (and year) is over! Looking back on all the memories and times we shared together awww. I guess I'll jump right into what I liked and didn't like. I LOVE EVERYTHING. well, not really. I didn't *hate* anything though. 

I guess I'll start with the stuff I wasn't a huge fan of. Mainly The Bloody Chamber/St. Lucy's. It wasn't that I thought they were poorly written or uninteresting. I guess I'm just not really in love with looking at an entire collection of short stories in an academic setting. I love the genre when I'm just reading for fun (e.g. David Sederis), but when there's an overarching theme to the class, I feel like it's harder to get an in-depth discussion about how the pieces fit together. The Bloody Chamber was better in that respect, though. 

Probably liked Zoo City the least out of most of the works. It was entertaining, but I personally never really cared about the characters themselves, and thought some of the stuff was over-the-top cheesy. 

True Blood was pretty solid entertainment, and led to some interesting discussion.

LOVED Princess Mononoke. Such a well done film. Would liked to have watched it a bit earlier in the semester though. 

The Agambe and some of the other selected readings like Freud were a bit more tedious to get through, but the Prezi presentations were really helpful in that respect. 

Alice was a really weird book and the lack of solid structure was kind of annoying, but I thought that also made it really interesting to discuss and let people focus on a lot of different themes.

Maus led to a lot of great discussion and was interesting for its style in general. Definitely a keeper. 

Overall I give this class TWO THUMBS UP! Everything we read was at least somewhat interesting, and always at least led to some awesome discussion. Easily my favorite class I've taken so far. Yayyy.