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Who’s watching orange is the new black with me

I don’t understand half of every page (“Icebox parenting” “Helen Gurley was the Machiavelli to Joan Rivers’s Hobbes” and references to about 20 TV shows I haven’t seen) but she has many interesting points (“Bigotry is resilient, because rejecting it often means rejecting your own family” and her defense of TV as a serious medium) without softening the themes the shows deal with (un/fuckability, sexism). Nice

I did not realize there were FIVE books in this series good lord wish me luck I’m in my Asimov era

Jury’s still out on whether this is actually helpful or just 300 pages of words about words

on the audiobook WHO was the sound designer that thought the spider singing audio effect was a normal idea

dnfing this, sorry katie jackson

The issue with children’s literature is that there are only two review types.
The kids’ reviews are like 4th grade summaries.
The parents’ reviews are all complaining about the repeated use of “freaking.” Sorry but that’s how the author alienates the child from his mother. It’s the freaking point.
Sorry you won’t let your kid read it till they’re in their “mid-teens.” A 3rd grade novel???

The blackberry juice hairstyle is iconic