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Whatever I’m geeking out about at the time.

🎥 Mean Girls

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Mean Girls (2004): ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’d never actually seen this, so after coming across a trailer for the upcoming remake, we decided to watch the original. I knew I knew a little bit about it from years of cultural osmosis, but I hadn’t realized just how many quotes and memes came from this. It was fun to watch, definitely funny, and I can definitely see how it has stuck around. But I also noticed a lot of things that, in 2023, didn’t play quite so well, and will be interested to see how Tina Fey updates it twenty years later.

🧪 Test Post 21 of Several

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Test twenty-one of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds.

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🧪 Test Post 20 of Several

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Test twenty of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds.

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  • Emoji in title: One (🧪).

Me and two friends. Test image only.

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Test Post 19 of Several

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Test nineteen of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds.

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Me and two friends. Test image only.

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Test Post 18 of Several

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Test eighteen of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds.

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Me and two friends. Test image only.

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📚 Escape Route by Cassandra Rose Clarke

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61/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The last of the three Prodigy middle-grade novels. Where the first two were set roughly during the break between the first and second half of the first season, this one is set during the gang’s shuttle trip to Earth. In need of a spare part for the shuttle, they find a mysterious moon that may have the part they need…if they’re all allowed to leave.

As with the rest, it’s another fun, quick adventure. To my (50-year-old) eyes, when reading all three back-to-back, it suffered a bit from having so many similarities to the first book, also by the same author: a search for a missing part leads the crew to a mysterious location where they get captured and have to figure out how to escape with the part they need. But for the age range these books are actually aimed at, the similarities might not be as noticeable.

Me holding Escape Route

📚 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

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58/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I first read this just a few years after it came out, when it was very much a “thing”. A few years ago I picked up another copy and it’s been waiting for the right time for a re-read; apparently this October was the right time. I really enjoyed diving back into this. It’s definitely not something everyone will enjoy, with its multiple narrators, footnotes-within-footnotes, pseudo-academic tone for one through line, and experimental layout. But it has an incredibly effective sense of eerie, creeping dread, and the unusual structure brings the labyrinthine nature of the house into the experience of reading the story. Fascinating and perfect for the Halloween season.

Me holding House of Leaves