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My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones

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Books turned into movies

I just got a random question one day: what books do people want to see turned into movies/tv shows/series and why - is that because of a great character, or an unforgettable plot/plot twist(s)? Here are mine (feel free to check them out if you want!!) : • The Inheritance Games - the plot + characters • The Naturals - The characters • Caraval - The world • Powerless - The characters • The Reappearance of Rachel Price - the plot • Lie Or Die - The plot + plot twist These are some of my favourite books of all time (not all) and I would love to know yours and your reasons why you would want them to be turned into a movie/series/tv show!! <3

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Physical Book Format Preferences

Fellow readers! What are your preferred physical book format preferences?

I've recently come across too many deckle edges for my liking, I absolutely despise them. With the explosion of sprayed edges and the downfall of the mass market paperback I'm wondering if my opinions are unique or are manufacturers absolutely dropping the ball.

✅ Mass market paperback: she is perfect. If every single book I read was a mass market paperback I would be such a happy reader. No matter the length of the book, honestly I prefer it for super chunky books over a huge hard cover that is super heavy.

☑️ Paperback over Hardcover As a Canadian where hardcovers have become $40, base price, it's not worth it. Dust jackets piss me off and if it's too large of a book it becomes too heavy and I can't hold it! Unless it's a library book, then I will choose a hard cover over paperback. I do enjoy the plastic wrapping, maybe I need to just do that for the hardcover books in my collection.

☑️ Trade Paperbacks Preferred over hardcovers but they feel so huge

❎ Sprayed edges Pure market oversaturation. They started off as special and beautiful but now it seems like manufacturers are just doing everything and anything, and every book needs to have sprayed edges.

❌ Manufactured Deckle Edges These piss me off! I've read at least four books this month that have had deckle edges and I can't stand them. We want uneven pages and an obviously fake "rustic" look? No. Not for me

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Physical Book Format Preferences

Fellow readers! What are your preferred physical book format preferences?

☑️ Trade Paperbacks Preferred over hardcovers but they feel so huge

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones

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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Anne Helen Petersen

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones

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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Anne Helen Petersen

From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an accessible, analytical look at how female celebrities are pushing boundaries of what it means to be an "acceptable" woman. You know the type: the woman who won't shut up, who's too brazen, too opinionated--too much. It's not that she's an outcast (she might even be your friend or your wife, or your mother) so much as she's a social variable. Sometimes, she's the life of the party; others, she's the center of gossip. She's the unruly woman, and she's one of the most provocative, powerful forms of womanhood today. There have been unruly women for as long as there have been boundaries of what constitutes acceptable "feminine" behavior, but there's evidence that she's on the rise--more visible and less easily dismissed--than ever before. In Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, Anne Helen Petersen uses the lens of "unruliness" to explore the ascension of eleven contemporary powerhouses: Serena Williams, Melissa McCarthy, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Nicki Minaj, Kim Kardashian, Hillary Clinton, Caitlyn Jenner, Jennifer Weiner, and Lena Dunham. Petersen explores why the public loves to love (and hate) these controversial figures, each of whom has been conceived as "too" something: too queer, too strong, too honest, too old, too pregnant, too shrill, too much. With its brisk, incisive analysis, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud will be a conversation-starting book on what makes and breaks celebrity today.

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May 29, 2026

2.5

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I would say the tagline does this book a disservice. Does it deliver on "The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs"? No. There's some history and the beginning and a brief description of manufacturing processes. What it is, truly, is the depiction of a woman travelling around the United States in the summer of 2021, fresh out of multiple countrywide lockdowns. Recovery, discovery, forming of new relationships and moving on from old ones.

The audio format of this book was a joy to listen to. Did it follow through with its tagline? No. But that's okay

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Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

Jamie Loftus

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog , will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They’re high culture, they’re low culture, they’re sports food, they’re kids' food, they’re hangover food, and they’re deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America's Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you can’t avoid the great American hot dog. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelog documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as they’re served today. From avocado and spice in the West to ass-shattering chili in the East to an entire salad on a slice of meat in Chicago, Loftus, her pets, and her ex eat their way across the country during the strange summer of 2021. It’s a brief window into the year between waves of a plague that the American government has the resources to temper, but not the interest. So grab a dog, lay out your picnic blanket, and dig into the delicious and inevitable product of centuries of violence, poverty, and ambition, now rolling around at your local 7-Eleven.

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Jamie Loftus

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Stephen Graham Jones