Several chapters into this project, I realized that my media references are all over the place, so I thought it would be fun to catalog them all. I have a weird idea of fun.
My X.Y.Z nomenclature here goes Part, Book, Chapter; 1.3.15, for example, indicates Part I, Book 3, Chapter 15.
Books
Larissa MacFaquhar, Strangers Drowning — 1.1.14
Thomas More, Utopia — 1.1.4
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — 1.1.6
Susan Strasser, Never Done — 1.1.5
Movies
Barbie — 1.1.14
Conclave — 1.1.12
Die Hard — 1.1.7
The Emperor’s New Groove — 1.1.8
Ever After — 1.1.4
Lord of the Rings trilogy — 1.1.10
Napoleon — 1.1.11
Tangled — 1.1.2
TV Shows
The Good Place — 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.13, 1.1.14
Musicals
For what I hope are obvious reasons, I will not track references I make to Les Misérables the musical.
Hamilton — 1.1.2
The Music Man — 1.1.7
People Quoted/Referred To
The Buddha — 1.1.14
Martin Luther King, Jr. — 1.1.10
Karl Marx — 1.1.8
Video Games
Animal Crossing: New Horizons — 1.1.6