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bravenewtrav2
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Mehso-so

Mel is an idol, but this book wasn‘t everything it could‘ve been. The subtitle you see about his remarkable life in show business is true, and he‘s honest about it, you don‘t get a ton about the man‘s feelings. I loved reading about his early life and wartime adventures but then you mostly get IMDB trivia equivalents. One passage I‘m almost certain was copied from his son‘s Wikipedia page, nearly verbatim. Only for Brooks diehards.

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GingerAntics
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Pickpick

This is a wonderful look at into the work of Adam Savage. It‘s part memoir, part science, part shop talk. It was fun to hear him talk about creating. Even though I create in a much different way than him, I took a lot away from this lovely book. It‘s funny and uplifting, encouraging everyone to nurture their inner creator.
#AdamSavage #EverytToolsAHammer #ReadByTheAuthor

GingerAntics The subtitle made me a little nervous, but this isn‘t a book about thinking positive and more about creating whatever it is you create with wild, passionate, abandon. 4d
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sdbruening
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Pickpick

Loved it. Quick, engaging read. I enjoyed learning about both Leonard and Bill through this book. A lot of great stories about their friendship. As a Star Trek fan, I did appreciate that a lot of it was about Star Trek.

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vivastory
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To quote the Ancient Aliens meme: I don't know, therefore Aliens!
I posted about two books finished today. I'm very much enjoying the Lethem but I am thinking it will need to hibernate for now as it is not compatible with my mood/mental space etc (will def come back as it is quite good), which leaves me with me mostly a clean slate except for one story collection which I am enjoying SO MUCH I ordered the physical copy. Will review (CONT)

vivastory when finished! Have no idea what my reading mood will be tomorrow & am going to follow my mood & build my TBR for the upcoming week (loosely) around what I need to do rather than have unrealistic expectations & end up reading very little during the week.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
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BarbaraBB I love that you can do that, I‘m such a control freak. 1w
vivastory @BarbaraBB I have been that way for YEARS, but have had to adjust recently due to work pressures, I'm such an eclectic reader and there are so many books I want to read I realized that I need to let my mood & upcoming work schedule dictate my TBR. Otherwise I just end up staring at my phone all night 😱 1w
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GingerAntics
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I started this yesterday while donating plasma. So far, I like it.
#AdamSavage #EveryToolsAHammer #audiobook

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Amiable
A Life in Parts | Bryan Cranston
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That moment when you‘re reading a book that randomly mentions a country — and you just happen to BE in that exact country! 🤯😀

Ruthiella It was meant to be! 🤯😂 2w
Amiable @Ruthiella 195 countries in the world and he just happened to pick the one I‘m sailing through! 😳😄 (edited) 2w
dabbe 🤩😍🤩 2w
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BarbaraBB Very cool. How do you like Bulgaria? 2w
Amiable @BarbaraBB We‘ve been only in the northern part, within an hour or so of the Danube — Veliko Tarnivo, Abanasi, Vidin and Belogradchik. The fortress at Belogradchik was amazing. The Bulgarian landscape in the Balkan Mountains is stunning. The villages and towns so far —okay. A couple on our tour spent time in Sofia and Plovdiv before joining us. They said Sofia was underwhelming and Plovdiv was so great they want to come back there. 2w
Amiable @BarbaraBB Honestly, I‘d say Romania was my favorite so far, particularly Braşov. Although the food there is heavier (lots of pork and sausage) so I‘m enjoying the Bulgarian cuisine better —I don‘t feel like I need to take a nap after every meal! 2w
BarbaraBB Thank you for sharing! I am very intrigued by Romania, I‘ve never been there. And in Bulgaria only a few days in Sofia which I liked but I envy you for traveling there 🤍 2w
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GingerAntics
Imzadi | Peter David
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Seeing that this is the only work of fiction I read in April, I guess it gets this month‘s win by default.
#PeterDavid #Imzadi #StarTrek #StarTrekTheNextGeneration #NextGeneration #TNG #Riker #Troi #ReadingBracket #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket #fiction

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LiseWorks
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April 30th #DynamicDs Duo Sam and Dean Winchester are the best duo in the best TV series evvvvver! I watched all 15 seasons of this series. I will always miss Sam and Dean. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Great choice! 3w
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bookishbitch
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Happy World Book Day! I actually finished a book today due to lucky timing. Even though I have the physical copy, I actually listened to this one on librofm. I couldn't resist since Tom Baker was the narrator. He was the 4th Dr. on the series and my first doctor. The story was solid and very much fit his zany vibe. There is an extra interview with Tom at the end of the physical copy, as well as the history of how the story came about.

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GingerAntics
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Mehso-so

This felt like 6 shows that had adults playing teens, and 1 that actually cast teens. After Fresh Prince, So-Called, and Dawson‘s, it felt like the book deteriorated into ways show business is horrible to people - people in show business, fans, and people in general - and how that was expressed in the next four shows.
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GingerAntics There was a lot of “no one had ever done this before,” but she said the exact same thing about the show before it when it did pretty much the same thing. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo
GingerAntics Maybe I‘m not the target audience? I grew up watching Fresh Prince and Dawson‘s Creek. The rest of the shows I never watched and hadn‘t even heard of some of them. I have seen some episodes of Friday Night Lights, but everyone I knew who watched that show was a middle aged woman, so I never saw it as a teen show. When I asked these fans now, they were all baffled that anyone would call it a teen show. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo
GingerAntics “It had teens in it, but it wasn‘t specifically aimed at teens. It was a family show maybe” was the general consensus. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo
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GingerAntics If Glassman was trying to bring new fans to these shows, she utterly failed. At first, I thought I‘d check out the shows I hadn‘t seen before, but that quickly deteriorated. I do want to check out My So-Called Life. Hearing about the crappy way Apatow treated the Freaks and Geeks cast, I‘m not about to support that. Five minutes into the discussion of The OC the creators were quoted as saying “too Jewish” twice. Nope. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo
GingerAntics Then it turned out the directors and crew talked crap about the actors behind their backs. Double hope. I was actually really excited to watch Glee. I knew several fans when it was on the air, and I just didn‘t watch it for whatever reason. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1mo
GingerAntics Then she talked about the writer/creator of Glee venting his own body shaming, homophobia, racism, and general bad humanity through the characters - making actors say and do horrible things to each other for his own joy? Hard pass. 1mo
TheBookHippie 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 I‘ve watched zero of these shows 👵🏼 I did see a few Fresh Prince episodes 🤷🏻‍♀️but that‘s it. 1mo
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I'm intrigued because I've watched 5 of the 7 (not Glee nor FNL), but not sure if care enough about them to read behind the scenes drama. 15 years ago, sure. Today? Meh. If you can watch My So-Called Life, I'd suggest that one of the bunch. One short season, a 90s time capsule, and pretty Jared Leto if you're into that. 1mo
GingerAntics @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick yeah, it‘s less BTS and more (supposed) cultural importance. There is a bit of BTS type stuff. I don‘t think I would have gotten through the whole book if it was just BTS stuff. My favourite to hear about, honestly, was Fresh Prince. lol 1mo
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie lol that‘s fair… this was pretty niche watching, so if you didn‘t have someone in the right age group who actually watched these shows, you‘d really have no reason on to watch them. This was definitely a millennial anthem in a sense. Glee probably did have some gen Z and Fresh Prince had some younger gen X, mostly millennial shows. 1mo
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I find it interesting my childhood shows still run 😂 I mostly watched old movies with my grandma and I‘m so grateful. I watched Gilmore Girls with my daughter, Fraiser with Mr BookHippie- but we mostly watched VHS BLOCKBUSTER 😂 I worked more than two jobs 14-40 so not much TV for me 🙃 1mo
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie yeah, long work hours do make it hard to do much outside of work. Gilmore Girls was a brilliant show. I really love that show! VHS Blockbuster seriously brings back memories. lol 1mo
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I feel like Gilmore Girls would have made a better teen show than some of the nonsense that was listed in this book. Maybe more men need to get comfortable with that show, because seriously that is a show full of powerful women and girls! 1mo
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