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Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television | Thea Glassman

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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. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

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. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

GingerAntics “It had teens in it, but it wasn‘t specifically aimed at teens. It was a family show maybe” was the general consensus. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

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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. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

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. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

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. 1w

GingerAntics #TheaGlassMan #FreaksGleeksAndDawsonsCreek #TeenTV #unpopularopinion 1w

TheBookHippie 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 I‘ve watched zero of these shows 👵🏼 I did see a few Fresh Prince episodes 🤷🏻‍♀️but that‘s it. 1w

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. 1w

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 1w

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. 1w

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 🙃 1w

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 1w

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! 1w

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GingerAntics

The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans | Juilene Osborne-McKnight

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#JuileneOsborneMcKnight #TheStoryWeCarryInOurBones #ReadByTheAuthor #UnpopularOpinion #VERYUnpopularOpinion
Here goes nothing. Let‘s break some hearts!
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GingerAntics I should know better, by now, not to even bother with Irish-American versions of Irish history. These works are why I have never attempted my own manuscript of Irish history and never will. This is mostly mythology. She makes these claims that have little to no supporting evidence, but no footnotes or citations, so no way of checking her sources. This makes this book dubious as best and a racist at worst. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

GingerAntics Unfortunately, we jump almost entirely from the mythological history to the famine - where she claims the English weren‘t as helpful as they could have been but Queen Victoria was great. I‘m going to need you to show your work on that, sweetie, because the math (and currently available sources) aren‘t mathing on that. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

GingerAntics She claimed sectarian violence - namely The Troubles - was hundreds of years of violence, but fails to mention ALL of that violence stems from the English trying to capture Ireland as their own, while the Irish fought them off in favour of self governance (don‘t even get me started on her precious Catholic Church‘s role in that). Yeah, this was a uniquely Irish problem. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

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GingerAntics One could definitely NOT ask India, Jamaica, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, the UAE, Malta, Kenya, Botswana, the Maldives, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Zambia, or any number of other former Colonies of the British empire about such things. This is Ireland‘s (and the Irish people‘s) failing. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

GingerAntics Not having the Bible in public schools is a “modern tragedy?” Really? Gross. Someone is a good little minnow muncher. I went to catholic school too, and I don‘t see any need to force my beliefs on others. Please be a little more Irish and extend the same courtesy to others. Thanks. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 1w

GingerAntics I‘m going to need to see some credentials and some citations, because the modern history of Ireland seems a little screwed, and none of my academic sources agree with her on many accounts. I‘m so glad she works at a Catholic college, but I am tremendously grateful I have never had to sit in one of her classes because I read more accurate accounts of Irish history in Middle School. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 1w

GingerAntics I can‘t imagine sitting through 13 weeks of this drivel with a grade on the line. FIN … or perhaps Le gach dea-ghuí would be more appropriate. 1w

GingerAntics I was once working on a paper in grad school where I found a scholarly paper claiming that the Irish people were now embracing Oliver Cromwell as a not so bad bloke… I had an Irish classmate who REALLY begged to differ and laughed at the paper because it was written by an English person and clearly had no clue what it was talking about. I thought of that paper when she talked about English aid during the famine. 🤣😂🤣 1w

Bookwomble Whoa! Sounds like an awful and biased account! Thanks for your review. 1w

GingerAntics @Bookwomble the bias is weird, too. Sometimes it is in the Irish people‘s favour, and other times it‘s in the English people‘s favour. It‘s really weird. 1w

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IMASLOWREADER

Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros

enjoyed this dramatized version…i dont think i could‘ve finished this if it was a regular book… #audiophile #readinggoal #unpopularopinion

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GingerAntics

You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory | Ruta Sepetys

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If you like random trivia about entirely unrelated nonsense loosely tied to “writing” via some kind of alcohol or wishful thinking, this is the book for you. If you might enjoy a (too) long diatribe about the differences between diaries and journals, complete with definitions admittedly made up by the author, this book is for you. If you want to actually learn about writing, look elsewhere.
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GingerAntics Seriously, this was nearly 5 hours of “all the jobs I‘ve done that I wasn‘t qualified for.” I have no desire to revise HER writing. That is her job. She wasted multiple minutes listing off words for each letter of the alphabet. No idea why. She actually would have preferred a man had told her to smile more. I am seriously embarrassed for this woman. She comes off as a privileged, hateful person in multiple parts of the book. She needs therapy.👇🏻 3w

GingerAntics I listened to this on 3x speed just to get through the madness. The prompts are really generic and other books will get you way further. This needs a PDF with all of the prompts, otherwise it‘s just a wild ride of going back and forth trying to get them from the audio or you‘re just listening like this is a book worth listening to. I will never be reading anything by this author ever again. #RutaSepetys #YouTheStory #audiobook #neveragain 3w

GingerAntics #victimblaming #sexism #clueless #privileged #hate #useless #wasteoftime #unpopularopinion (edited) 3w

julesG I've read two(?) books by her and was underwhelmed. I'm not going to touch this writing advice one. 3w

GingerAntics @julesG monstrous! I was annoyed most of the time. I don‘t know why I felt like I needed to finish it, but I probably could have bailed and been just fine. Just… ugh. 3w

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MommyWantsToReadHerBook

Hello Beautiful | Ann Napolitano

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I have so many opinions. I don't really care for her writing and the way the timeline went back and forth in beginning I really disliked - all throughout the book actually it felt like she was writing about the same thing over and over again from different angles to get the most mileage out of it and it annoyed me. Other peeves included Alice the miracle baby who didn't need food or attention for 15 hours or something, the number of times ⬇️

MommyWantsToReadHerBook she mentions characters' curly hair, the one-dimensionality of the characters, everything about Julia, the depiction of depression and medication, the unrealistic, dramatic loss near the end just so it dovetails with Little Women. 1mo

MommyWantsToReadHerBook I liked William and the basketball injuries parts the best. I found it readable and somehow not unenjoyable despite all my issues. I guess that says something? 1mo

Cathythoughts I started this and bailed. Like you I wasn‘t a fan of her writing. #unpopularopinion 😬 1mo

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MommyWantsToReadHerBook @Cathythoughts I apparently persevered only so I could fully criticise it 😂 1mo

CarolynM I'm listening to this at the moment. You've said a lot if things I'm thinking. I'm wondering whether to bail. 4w

CarolynM I absolutely loathe Julia 4w

MommyWantsToReadHerBook @CarolynM she's horrible! I don't know what to tell you since I don't easily bail and I wanted to see what happened with William... But it was unfortunately soppy right until the very end. 3w

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DieAReader

The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes | C. S. Lewis

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#Read2025 #Wardens2025 #ReadYourKobo

2⭐️ I much preferred ‘Mere Christianity‘. #UnpopularOpinion

CoverToCoverGirl, CBee

CoverToCoverGirl That‘s why we read!😃 1mo

DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl 😁💖🫂Absolutely! (edited) 1mo

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Honey: A Novel | Isabel Banta

bailed

#unpopularopinion: I couldn‘t get past page 30.
I really wanted to like this book, as I love music and the time period, but nothing hooked me. Then I got to the first sex scene. Yes, sex scene in under 50 pages, and not a sexy scene either. It seems like others liked the audio, so maybe I‘ll give that a try sometime 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Larkken

Beautyland: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino

so-so

I feel like the gimmick (an actual alien reporting on the coming of age of an ace, lower middle class girl through living it) detracted from the story. It made the MCs identity uncomfortable and her v literal “dispatches” annoying rather than quirky. Sorry #tob #tob25 and I guess all the other best of lists last year but I wasn‘t here for it. #unpopularopinion

Ruthiella Hot take! 😂 I liked but didn‘t love her debut

2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas

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Larkken @Ruthiella I didn't realize it was the same author! I had heard good things but am less interested now 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3mo

LoverOfLearning Ah ET!!!! Love him 2mo

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DieAReader

Everywhere That Mary Went | Lisa Scottoline

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bailed

#Read2025 #Wardens2025 #Roll100

Once again, I‘m the #UnpopularOpinion 🤷🏻‍♀️ I had a difficult time connecting with Mary from the start & considered DNF early on but, kept on despite my reservations. However, after 58% I just could not do it anymore. The situation with Ned was beyond my threshold of ridiculousness🤦🏻‍♀️😂🙄.

I won‘t be carrying on with this series & it‘s also been removed from my tbr👋🏻

CoverToCoverGirl, PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper On to better books! 3mo

DieAReader @PuddleJumper 💖💖 3mo

CoverToCoverGirl How ridiculous, is ridiculous? 3mo

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DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl Mary banging at Ned‘s door @ 4am accusing him of murder etc… & then they‘re in bed. Voila, a 🤬up relationship then takes place & she‘s madly in love with him🙄🤦🏻‍♀️ 3mo

CoverToCoverGirl @DieAReader Yikes!! 😳 Run away… (edited) 3mo

DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️My thoughts exactly (edited) 3mo

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DieAReader

Out Came the Sun | Ben Greenman, Mariel Hemingway

bailed

#WeekendReads #WeekendReads #Wardens2024 #Read2025 #UnpopularOpinion

Unfortunately, this #ImpulseRead just couldn‘t keep my attention, regardless of the subject. I‘m not opposed to revisiting in the future.

CoverToCoverGirl, rachelsbrittain

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