Janette mccurdy fakes

Hiya, so I’m looking for some book recommendations. Some books I’ve read recently that I have liked are school for good mothers- Jessamine Chan, the handmaids tale-Margaret Atwood, Mother Hens- Sophie McCartnery, The Family upstairs-Lisa Jewel.
In my list of books I want to read I have .im glad my mother died by janette McCurdy . A good girls guide to murder
I’ve read loads of Lisa jewel, Christopher berry Dee.
I’m looking for something different to a murder mystery book but like things with crime involved hence the books I’ve recently read and enjoyed. Anything else you could suggest?
Also wanting some books that aren’t crime at all, not big into mystical stuff though or teen romance 😁

I just finished "I'm Glad My Mom Died," by Janette McCurdy and loved it. Prior to this I read "Man's Search for Meaning," and also really enjoyed it. I started to read "The Handmaid's Tale," and although it's interesting it's just too wordy for me. I'm not sure how to explain it. I like books that say what they mean to say and then move on. I feel like adult books have too much extra stuff in them that slow down the story and make me zone out. Does anyone have any adult book suggestions that keep the reader interested without being too much?

Chancing my arm cause my sister and I have been desperately looking for this song for three years now.
It’s a teen pop song that came off recommendation from So Close by Janette McCurdy (but it’s not country). Music video is mainly (probably) set in a field with a photobooth in the middle of it. The song title may have the word “Kiss” on the title and gives off like a fairytale knight and shining armour vibe.
That’s all we have. We doubt it’s from a known artist so best guess is probably those old youtuber cover artists that went to do their own song at a low budget music video or perhaps an old star from Disney or Nickelodeon that just never made it (kinda like JoJo back in the day)

Anyone wanna share interesting skins lore they’ve learned over the years? I’ll start:

1. Daniel Kaluuya, before he became insanely famous in America, played Posh Kenneth in gen 1 AND he was the head writer on two episodes. I think he was a writing consultant for a season or two as well. Anyway, he’s was like one of the youngest people to write an hour of aired television in the UK or something back then like it was legit a record.
   
2. An obvious one, but Kaya (Effy), Katie and Emily (Kat and Megan Prescott), Karen (Klazara Clayton), Naomi (Lily Loveless), and Jal (Larissa Wilson) are all real life childhood besties. They’re friendly with most of their former cast mates, too.
   
3. Kaya has worked with Nic Hoult after skins. She also worked with Joe Cole (luke from gen 3). Cassie and Chris worked on Game of Thrones together. Matty and Grace from gen 3 played love interests in a show years after skins. Luke from Gen 3 and Sketch from Gen 1 were in Peaky Blinders together.
   
4. There are Skins books which cover the summer months between each season. There’s also a crap ton of extra unaired episodes. I never watched them all because they were hard to find in the US when I first watched skins. You can find a good bit of them on YT though.
   
5. Years and years ago, when the spam community was still a thing, there was this girl who went viral for essentially looking very similar to Kaya Socdelario. This was pre facetune era btw i’m talking like 2014-2016. And the girl was so sweet. She wasn’t from America or the UK so i’m not even sure that she spoke english and she handled the whole thing really well and ended up being a fan of skins. I have NO idea what ever happened to her because this was literally years ago. Hope someone knows who i’m talking about!
   
6. Jack O’connell and Kaya S dated for a year or two. Kaya used to be open about talking about how he was really her first love, and how he eventually broke her heart. If i’m remembering correctly, it came out in an interview that he was her first everything if you know what I mean. They were on okay terms until like 2014-2015 and then they kinda cut all contact. She then stopped tagging him in insta pics, didn’t follow him on socials, and he’s never been invited to their annual reunion trips. He like dropped off the face of the earth a few years ago, but I think he’s still working on projects.
   
7. A few years back, April Pearson (Michelle) started a podcast called “Are you Michelle from Skins?” and interviewed child actors (a few from skins) about their experiences in the industry. It was very good, and if you know anything about the whole Nickelodeon thing going on rn or about Janette Mccurdys book, you might want to check Aprils podcast out! She and a few other female cast mates spoke about feeling like they were thrown into sex scenes far too young. Kaya has spoke on this briefly as well, but was never a guest on the pod. Kaya has, however, spoke out about how much she resonated with Janette’s book and how she has a shared experience of having an abusive mother that exploited her. Which was shocking because I remember Kaya used to post with her mother and talk about her often in interviews. It makes total sense, though, that she had that experience and it’s really sad to think about.
   

Edit: I learned today that Kaya S and Daniel Kaluuya grew up together in the same neighborhood. He’s also her son’s godfather. The more you know!

i wanna start off by saying that i do not hate josh peck nor do i think he’s inherently a bad person - the way everyone is currently treating him is disgusting because he struggles with mental health issues and his childhood wasn’t all peaches and roses either (going by the information in his book)
i simply think josh peck is a bad friend. does anyone remember when jennette mccurdy went on his podcast “Good Guys” with josh’s co-host Ben to promote her book and they ended up scrapping the entire thing because Jennette was uncomfortable with the way she was portrayed in the episode??
and josh talks about in another podcast how because of them scrapping the episode that Jennette “owed them” ?
he tries to reach out to her 6 months later after she went on the podcast and tried to text her and found out he was blocked. he was obviously upset and taken aback by that but he literally made it worse the way he kept continuously talking shit about her
before that though, in 2017 there was another incident where josh didn’t invite drake to his wedding and drake took to twitter with his disappointment from not being invited. drake said “i thought we were brothers?” This blows up and the internet takes drakes side
In response, josh tells the internet that they were never real friends and they cut off contact right after drake & josh ended, which we all know is definitely not true (soo many videos and pictures of them together after their departure from drake & josh)
then josh tells this fake ass sopranos type story about how he sees drake at the VMAs months after the wedding incident and “forced” him to apologize to his wife? he was acting like this realllly big tough guy that made drake into a scared puppy.
Except drakes ex-wife was there with them and the whole night was recorded and her and drake says that never happened…
If you watched the Drake and Janet podcast you would see where Josh treated drake very badly and drake still only had good things to say about him.
my point is, although Josh doesn’t deserve the amount of hate he’s getting, it’s very clear that guy is not a reliable friend and honestly i had a feeling for years that josh always saw drake as beneath him, especially after josh got with the vlog-squad and such (which is a whole other thing bc hes still friends with most of them even though theyre wildly problematic lol)
The thing with Jennette really bothers me to this day because the whole situation with josh was so insanely slimey. I think he had a poor choice of words “we’re good guys we were nice to her! She owes us!” but she literally doesn’t owe you shit? he kept insisting that his experience was very different than Jennette’s (uh no shit for 1 ur a man and shes a woman??) i think he made her very uncomfortable when she was doing his podcast by stomping on her experience working under Dan.
It makes me so mad because Jennette went on Josh’s podcast the day her book was released and she really trusted that he would be sensitive to her opening up about her past. i dont think he ever took accountability which makes me even more mad
what do yall think🤔

It is a very long series, but Quinton Reviews has very deep dives into iCarly, Victorious, and Sam and Cat that talk about a lot of the weird things that happen in the show, the drama behind the scenes, and more. In his most recent video, he spends a good amount of time going over Janette McCurdy's book and her writings on " the creator". I highly recommend

I think the saddest thing about this whole expose is not that it ruins my childhood, but it seemed like this really great magical world at Disney/Schneider bakery and its all fake. It seemed like such an amazing place. All That as an SNL for kids, then discovering the talent that is Amanda Bynes and creating a spin off show for her. Once she's ready to go do movies, pulling Drake and Josh from that show to make their own spinoff. Then using Miranda from there to make iCarly, with Drake being involved in the theme song. And so on and so on. It just all felt like such a family atmosphere, like everyone was having a blast and interconnected and involved in everyone's stuff. It felt so organic and creative and fun.
And on top of that the shows really were smartly written. They still hold up in a lot of ways and thats a credit to the production and the writing. They really treated these shows like they were adult programs and its the reason they've lasted. It just felt like Dan built this empire that was THE way to run shows as a kid, that can be fun, creative, exciting, good, in a way there never had been for younger programming. But then you find out its all a sham, it was a horrible place to work, rampant sexism, paedophiles on set, kids lives really being destroyed by this. I guess in a way its not all that different than adult productions in Hollywood. Paints such a sour view of the business cause it really doesn't seem like it has to be that way.
But you look at what happened to at least one person from every show. Amanda going nuts, Drake having his issues, Josh having problems with alcohol and pills, Janette really having some serious problems with the production. And thats only the on screen talent. So many on the production staff seem to have horror stories. I guess the saddest thing besides all the truly horrible stuff that happened was that it just didn't seem like it HAD to be that way. It could have been how it looked if there was some oversight. Feels like such a missed opportunity that then taints all the programming we grew up with. I guess its a way more common story than the opposite.

I (f20) just recently listened to this audiobook and I was in fuckign awe...
I cried so bad thinking about it all. I also have a nMom like her. Our experiences are really similar, not talking about also being an actress or something but the patterns our moms put into our brain.
The anorexia, then binging, food addiciton, bulimia... The self destrive patterns, comparing yourself, being jealous, never being good enough. Alcohol and drug abuse... Toxic relationships... General unhappiness.
I just cried so hard thinking about how horrible this is. Its so unfair. We were just little girls and our whole lives are impacted by these whores. i still have so much anger and pain in my heart. All the daughters suffering their whole lives, even worse, becoming just like their mothers... it breaks my heart so bad thinking of every beautiful woman thinking shes not good enough because of a nMom.
I wish my mom was dead as well. I'd finally feel safe in this world. This wound will last forever and my hatred and anger in my heart will never fully go away. i have so much hatred in my heart and i cant get it to go away! I will never have kids because the fear that their life will turn out as horrible is mine is too big.
my mom kicked me out when i was 16 and ive been living with my dad who i love so much since then. but the abuse she put me through will haunt me forever. i cant live a normal life, i cant be happy, or have normal relationships. i have a problem that i can not explain...

I'm sure we're all familiar with Alexa Nikolas at this point, but just so everyone's caught up, Alexa was known for her role as Nicole on "Zoey 101" but is now an activist who is vocal about her experiences during and after her time in the entertainment industry. She encountered challenges including bullying on set from cast, crew, Britney Spears (forgiven), and Dan Schneider. Her experiences in Hollywood, along with a harmful personal relationship that isolated her from her family and took her out of the country, have shaped her adult life.
As an advocate, Alexa focuses on the mistreatment of child actors and the issue of sexual abuse within the entertainment industry. Her "Eat Predators" initiative, presented through her YouTube channel, is a platform for raising awareness about these issues.
Yesterday, Alexa released a video exposing Christy Carlson Romano and the Ned's Podcast. She accused Romano of insincerity in supporting abuse victims and condemned the podcast for using a misleading, defamatory title regarding an incident involving her mother and Lindsay. She called out the Ned's Pod for shit-talking her and calling her crazy, but that's only part of it.
I do recommend watching the video to get a full idea of what she's calling them out for, but there's one specific part of the Ned's section that I can't stop thinking about. Alexas kept alluding to an incident involving Devon Werkheiser, who play Ned Bigby, hinting at potentially serious misconduct at a party that also involved Lindsay Shaw, who played Moze. While Alexa did not make explicit allegations, her insinuations suggest grave concerns about Devon's behavior.
Here are the relevant timestamps and quotes from Alexa where she brings this up:

• 1:13:52 "Basically, I woke up one morning to getting word about a podcast episode on the Ned's Declassified podcast...where Lindsey Shaw and Devin Werkheiser were discussing me. Not in a good light. Not in a good light."

Alexa then mentions the clip with the clickbait title about how Lindsay and Alexa's mom got into a fistfight. She considers this defamatory and had to get Christy Carlson Romano to take the clip down, but the conversation in the podcast remained. Alexa clarified that Lindsay was the one who hit her mom during the incident and emphasizes that her mom didn't retaliate but was simply trying to protect her.

• 1:17:06 "So let's watch what Devon Werkheiser... um, God, Devon Werkheiser, boy do I remember you. Sorry, boy do I remember you."

She starts watching a clip of the pod where Devon is speaking with the guest (Chelsea from Unfabulous) about the "fucked up shit" that went on at Nickelodeon (except at Ned's, they maintain that they never dealt with anything Schneider-level). Chelsea was about to bring up an example she heard about, but before she can get a name out, Devon makes some throaty laugh sound and smirk that comes off as "don't say their names" or it could just be laughing at the victims in general.

• 1:17:48 "I don't know if anyone's hearing this, but he goes like, "[mocks his laugh]" like mahehuhaah, like it reminds me of like "bahaha" from Brandon Quinn. Like, what are you mahehuhaaa-ing to, that the people that you're about to mention have experienced trauma? Like, oh, I'm about to say them, muhahaaa, people that have literally been around a creep as a child on set, you know. Like, mhmhmhm, and he goes, 'Jenette McCurdy and Alexa Nikolas. mahehuhaah..' How gross are you? I'm sorry, but like, how offensive is even that beginning? Look at his face, muheheheh. Like, how old are we, dude? You can just say my name, by the way. It's not like some sin. It's not a sin to say my name. [mocks laugh]"

Devon then does mention Jenette and Alexa in the convo. Alexa proceeds to mock his tone:

• 1:18:59 " 'Jenette, Alexa, buhebuhuhhh', Like yeah, you can say it. Why would it be wrong to say it is also my question. Like, what's wrong with just saying my name? You can say my name Devon, it's okay to say my name, you're safe to say my name."

They talk about Alexa specifically, with Chelsea mentioning her Furby collection and how "intense" and "crazy" Alexa was. Alexa mentions that it feels like she is watching her own eulogy with how they talk about her.

• 1:25:00 "None of them have checked in on me. Lindsay I've actually reconnected with here and there throughout my life. But no not Devon, no not Chelsea. I don't know these people anymore. And so to see them gathering around, talking about me like I'm not there, I'm not here anymore, and to throw around that word [crazy], I just found was inappropriate. And if I had someone on my show saying that, I'd be like, 'Hey, we don't like to use that word here because of X, Y, and Z and how it's been.' But no one stopped her there. No one stopped her there. And instead, Devon laughs, mehehehaaa, like, points at Lindsay and it's like, you know, Lindsay has had her own journey, her own mental health journey, and it would never be my place to sit here and talk about her. But now I know she's spoken about me, you know. "

That leads right into the first mention of Andrew Caldwell:

• And Devon has no problem laughing at what I don't even still know what exactly I was a kid. Like, what exactly is everyone laughing at and what is everyone trying to get at, you know? I remember you at Andrew Caldwell's party, okay? ehehehehhh Like, you weren't fuckin'... whatever. I won't say it here, but... I remember you at Andrew Caldwell's party." sips Modelo

Lindsay talks about how she and Alexa were best friends and very close for a time. She mentions how safe Alexa made her feel and says that they did shrooms for the first time together.

• 1:32:43 "We did, and it was wonderful. and I, um, loved every moment of that. And it was... I mean, she was literally my best friend ever, and I was super protective of her. I was even protective of her at Andrew Caldwell's house. Sips Modelo... but you know, I was a... I was a good friend for a teenager."

1:33:31 This is the incident with Alexa's mom and Lindsay. Lindsay and Alexa wanted to go out, Alexa's mom was worried about her leaving with Lindsay and held onto Alexa to prevent her from leaving, which Lindsay responded to by hitting her mom on the head. This clip of Lindsay was used as a promo with the title of it clickbait about how Lindsay and Alexa's mom got into a fistfight, which Alexa fought to get removed because her mom did no fist fighting.
No one on the pod condemns Lindsay's story, but the topic is quickly shifted over to shitting on Alexa again, escalating until Devon refers to Alexa as unhinged:

• 1:37:38 "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Devin. Devin, it's me, Alexa, that the name that you were afraid to say. Um, do you remember Andrew Caldwell, speaking of unhinged. Like, what bro, unhinged? Why were you so excited to even say that about someone you haven't seen in like, I don't know, has it been 20 years now? I don't remember the last time I saw you. I think it was at Andrew Caldwell's place, to be honest with you. But like, I haven't seen you since. Why are you so thrilled to call unhinged? "

It's mentioned again how protective Alexa was, with Devon imitating her as saying she would go as far as yelling "Stay the fuck away from her!"

• 1:41:42 " 'Stay the fuck away from her'? Why is he so specific about that? Isn't that interesting? Seems like a memory, doesn't it? I'm just hearing crickets right now, but like, literally, I actually hear crickets right now, by the way. But yeah, you know, it seems like a memory of Devin's, of me saying, 'Stay away from her.' I think that's weird. Just saying."

She reaches the end of the section where they speak about her, and so she wraps up her main points she had been making include one final shot at Devon:

• 1:42:22 "It felt like they didn't say anything about what I've been doing, or anything. Like it just felt cold, and it felt just not it, right. And I encourage Lindsay, and I encourage Chelsea, and I encourage Devin to, and Daniel, like Daniel just wasn't even, you know what, Daniel, like you're good, man. Like, I don't even... what I felt more triggered by, Devin, Lindsay, and Chelsea, and especially Devin going into an actual memory of his, by the way, an actual memory of his. And it's like, I really wish that Devon and Lindsay knew why I was so protective of her, especially one night, and I was doing the best that I could."

Alexa's comments hint at, if not straight-up allege, a disturbing incident involving Devon and Lindsey took place or nearly took place. As a casual watcher of the Ned's Pod and fan of the show as a kid, and it's been sickening to think about what exactly took place that night between people I feel like I grew up with (in a parasocial way).
Christy's cancelled to me regardless, I've thought she came off as fake AF since her 'Throwback Kitchen' days, but admittedly Vulnerable became a guilty watch. But nah, not anymore, her vibes are off and honestly Podco as a whole makes F-tier podcasts. But that's beside the point.
What does this sub make of these allegations? Will this be one that catches attention, or just another one that most will ignore?

We’ve seen almost all of each of the main casts family, Joan and her mother and father, both of sets of Lynn’s parents and a sister, damn near all of Toni’s family minus a brother or sister or so, and even Williams’s dad, fake mom and sister minus his real mom. But thinking on it, all we know of Maya is her mom Janette and her cousin Ronnie. No mention of her dad or any other close relatives. Let me know if I’m mistaken, but didn’t Maya have a scene where she said she really doesn’t have a big family and she calls a lot of ppl her cousin to make up for it or something like that. But it also leads me left because the episode where Terri J. Vaughn worked as the janitor her and Maya both found out they were cousins thru Monte, and that was their common kinship. I’ve just always wondered where was Maya’s dad and whose siblings are connected, the mom or dad, that makes her cousins with Ronnie. She has to have an aunt or uncle somewhere right. My thoughts 💭

I am looking for some guidance. my mom died a few years ago while I was in highschool. Her and i lived alone and I am the one who found her. She wasn't evil but she was very religious and she did the whole emotional incest thing. it took me several years for me to stop deifying her and to realize that she was just as much of an abuser as my dad and my stepmom. I deified her because my father and my stepmom were/are real peaces of shit, and she gave me a bit of a haven from their outright derision. however now I realized that our relationship was incredibly unhealthy in other ways. Even before the Janett McCurdie book came out I had thought about and it and realized that I was better off without her in my life. the thing is this day still fucks with me. Im not usually very in touch with my feelings and was wondering if people had insight as to what grief looks like several years after an abuser you loved dies

I’m trying to find/make an advent calendar for my partner but need some help with finding books she would like. Pre-made advent calendars seem either really bad value, would contain books already owned or have a ‘bad’ selection.
To give an idea of what books they’re into here are a few that I’ve already selected as titles they’ve spoke about purchasing but haven’t whilst looking previously or read recently and enjoyed

• Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
• Weirdo by Sarah Pascoe
• Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
• Higher Education by Kira McPherson
• I’m Glad My Mum Died by Janette McCurdy
• Childhood by Shannon Burns
• I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhard
• Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang
• Childhood by Shannon Burns
• Hevan by Meiko Kawakami
• The Mothers by Brit Bennet

If you need anymore information please let me know and I’ll do my best to answer.
Thanks in advance

FWIW, I'm not looking for recommendations. Just wanted to start a conversation!
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Many of y'all enjoy reading (or accidentally end up reading) for hours. I am definitely not one of those people! But I do enjoy reading regularly. I'm a full time doctoral student and don't have a ton of time to sit down with a good book and just read. I've found myself using services like Libby so when I'm on campus and have a few minutes before or after class, I can read a few pages without bringing another book with me. For those folks like me who read in small doses, what are you reading?
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Non-fiction is great for this for me since there's no real plot to follow. I can turn to most pages and read a short paragraph about something interesting. Books like "Thinking Fast and Slow" or "Atomic Habits" have both been really helpful for me to stay engaged with productivity and my academic endeavors.
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I've also enjoyed reading memoirs for this reason. While there is a definitely a story, I find myself able to retain more of the chronology since there usually aren't a ton of names to remember in a convoluted plot meant to twist and turn. Tara Westover's memoir, "Educated" and Janette McCurdy's memoir "I'm Glad My Mom Died" were both wild reads with fairly short chapters.
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I've also enjoyed reading easier fiction in my little windows of time, too. I recently read "Catherine House" by Elisabeth Thomas. While it wasn't my favorite (no spoilers), it was recommended from a reading podcast as a good autumnal/Halloween season read. Quick read and easily digestible in small sittings.

Never thought I’d be into biography’s or autobiography until I read In order to live by Yeonmi Park. It was shocking and eye opening to side of the world I as an average western person would ever experience. I also loved I’m glad my mom died by Janette McCurdy as it was shocking and juicy and completely unexpected. I’d love to here some new suggestions

I’m trying to find/make an advent calendar for my partner but need some help with finding books she would like. Pre-made advent calendars seem either really bad value, would contain books already owned or have a ‘bad’ selection.
To give an idea of what books they’re into here are a few that I’ve already selected as titles they’ve spoke about purchasing but haven’t whilst looking previously or read recently and enjoyed

• Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
• Weirdo by Sarah Pascoe
• Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
• Higher Education by Kira McPherson
• I’m Glad My Mum Died by Janette McCurdy
• Childhood by Shannon Burns
• I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhard
• Love & Virtue by Diana Reid

If you need anymore information please let me know and I’ll do my best to answer.
Thanks in advance

(Please suggest something new, these books have already been read :))
the perks of being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Certain Hunger - Summers
My year of rest and relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
So sad today - Melissa Broder
The New Me - Halle Butler
Milk Fed - Melissa Broder
Rest and be thankful - Emma Glass
The girls - Emma Cline
Let’s go play at the adams - Mendal W. Johnson
Big Swiss - Jen Beagin
Her name in the sky - Kelly Quindlen
Daughter of the moon goddess - Sue Lynn Tan
The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa
Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung
Convenience store woman - Sayaka Murata
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Mermaid the witch and the sea - Tokuda Hall
Turtles all the way down - John Green
Klara and the sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
I’m thinking of ending things - Lain Reid
I’m glad my mom died - Jennette McCurdy
Things have gotten worse since we last spoke and other misfortunes - Eric LaRocca
Yerba Buena - Nina Lacour
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
A good girls guide to murder - Holly Jackson
Last night and the Telegraph club - Malinda Lo
Pure Color - Sheila Heti
Writers and lovers - Lily King
Animal - Lisa Taddeo
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
She Drives me crazy - Quindlen
Mooncakes - Xu Walker Gil
Written in the stars - Alexandria Bellefleur
One of us is lying - Karenm McManus
My dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
Queen of Coin and Whispers - Helen Corcoran
The dark tide - Alicia Jasinska
Huntress - Malinda Lo
Sweet and bitter magic - Tooley
Gearbreakers - Mikuta
The deathless girls - Kiran Millwood
Cinderella is dead - Bayron
The dead and the dark - Courtney Gould
Malice - Heather Walter
The faithless - C.L Clark
The unbroken - C. L Clark
The oleander sword - Tasha Suri
The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri
Girls of storm and shadow - Natasha Ngan
Girls of paper and fire - Natasha Ngan
Iron heart - Varela
Crier’s War - Varela
The Hollow Heart - Marie Rutkoski
The midnight lie - Rutkoski
A day of fallen night - Samantha Shannon
The priory of the orange tree - Samantha Shannon
All American Boys - Reynolds
This is where it ends - Marieke Nijkamp
Please look after mother - Kyung-sook Shin
Paradise Rot - Jenny Hval
Her body and other parties - Machado
The silent patient - Alex Michaelides
Black swans - Eve Babitz
The henna wars - Adiba Jaigirdar
No longer human - Osamu Dazai
This is how you lose the time war - Amal
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
Before the coffee gets cold - Toshirazu Rawaguchi
Hani and Ishu’s guide to fake dating - Adiba Jaigirdar
She gets the girl - Lippincott
One last stop - Casey McQuiston
Girl in pieces - Kathleen Glasgow
Suicide notes - Ford
Sharp objects - Gillian Flynn
Crying in H mart - Michelle Zauner
Real World - Natsuo Kirino
Death in her hands - Ottessa Moshfegh
The great gataby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the miso soup - Ryu Murakami
The pieces - Melissa Broden
Girl, interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
Tender is the flesh - Agustina Bazterrica
Jillian - Halle Butler
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
The bell jar - Sylvia Plath
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Catcher and the Rye
Speak - Anderson
Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
Come Closer - Sara Gran
Tell Me I’m Worthless - Alison Rumfitt
Bunny - Mona Awad
Homesick for another world - Ottessa Moshfegh
Diary of an oxygen thief - anonymous
Nobody, somebody, anybody - Kelly McClorey
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
Acts of service - Lillian Fishman
Woman, Eating - Claire Kohda

Hello y’all. :) I’ll be honest, I love reading and books. Listening to the recent episode (“Reading” atm) inspired me to put together little lists of possible books to read if you were looking for book recs/something that could help you get back into reading. I’m not a librarian nor teacher, so I can’t speak on helping someone with reading disability (such as dyslexia). I only mean to offer what I can.
(If you do know of reading resources or your own book recs, feel free to comment below!! This is more than welcome to be a communal kind of thing)
For now, look at my ass, because here are some possible books to read to boost your knowledge or just have some fun reading. :)
{Some books come with trigger warnings! Mainly the horror and thriller books, though several deal with mental health, loss, and grief.}
GENERAL FICTION/YA FICTION

1. “When It All Syncs Up” by Maya Ameyaw
2. “Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America” with Ibi Zoboi as the editor (collection of short stories; anthology)
3. “You, Me, and Our Heartstrings” by Melissa See
4. “Legendborn” by Tracy Deonn

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

1. “The Decoy Girlfriend” by Lillie Vale
2. “Teach Me” by Olivia Dade
3. “If the Show Fits” by Julie Murphy
4. “The Heart Principle” by Helen Hoang
5. “Love, Comment, and Subscribe” by Cathy Yardley

MIDDLE GRADE

1. “Front Desk” by Kelly Yang
2. “Finally Seen” by Kelly Yang
3. “Ellen Outside the Lines” by A. J. Sass
4. “The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart” by Stephanie Burgis
5. “Other Words for Home” by Jasmine Warga
6. “The Ogress and the Orphans” by Kelly Barnhill
7. “The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire #1)” by Tui T. Sutherland
8. “Percy Jackson” by Rick Riordan

GRAPHIC NOVELS

1. “Batter Royale” by Leisl Adams
2. “Wash Day Diaries” by Jamila Rowser
3. “Hollow” by Shannon Watters
4. “Pilu of the Woods” by Mai K. Nguyen

MANGAS

1. “The Emperor and I” by Mato
2. “Cat Massage Therapy” by Haru Hisakawa
3. “Cat + Gamer” by Wataru Nadatani

NONFICTION

1. “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘round” by Kathlyn J. Kirkwood
2. “Idea Makers: 15 Fearless Female Entrepreneurs” by Lowey Bundy Sichol
3. “I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy
4. “Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting” by Kindra Neely [also a graphic novel]
5. “The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” by Kate Moore

QUEER LITERATURE (this is most what I read)

1. “How to Succeed in Witchcraft” [YA/Sapphic]
2. “Chef’s Kiss” [Graphic Novel/Gay]
3. “Melissa” by Alex Gino [Middle Grade/Trans]
4. “Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms” by Crystal Frasier [Graphic Novel/Sapphic/Trans]
5. “Loveless” by Alice Osman [YA/Aroace]
6. “Ace of Spades” by Faridah Àbíké-lyímídé
7. “Red, White, & Royal Blue” by Casey McQuiston [New Adult/Gay]
8. “Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating” by Adiba Jaigirdar [YA/Sapphic]
9. “Alter Ego” by Ana C. Sánchez [Manga/Sapphic]
10. “Hell Followed With Us” by Andrew Joseph White [Dystopian Sci-fi/Trans]

COZY MYSTERY

1. “Death by Dumpling” by Vivian Chien
2. “The Rocky Road to Ruin” by Meri Allen

COZY FANTASY (fantasy with lower stakes)

1. “Legends & Lattes” by Travis Baldree
2. “Cursed Cocktails” by S. L. Rowland (only on Amazon to my current knowledge)
3. “Coffee, Milk & Spider Silk” by Coyote J.M. Edwards

SCIENCE FICTION

1. “The A.I. Who Loved Me” by Alyssa Cole
2. “The Blood Trials” by N. E. Davenport
3. “The Kaiju Preservation Society” by John Scalzi

HORROR

1. “Into the Drowning Deep” by Mira Grant
2. “Manhunt” by Gretchen Felker-Martin
3. “Seed” by Ania Ahlborn
4. “Theme Music” by T. Marie Vandelly
5. “Dead Silence” by S. A. Barnes

THRILLER

1. “The Locked Door” by Frieda McFadden
2. “There’s Someone Inside Your House” by Stephanie Perkins
3. “The Life We Bury” by Allen Eskens
4. “White Smoke” by Tiffany D. Jackson
5. “The Obsession” by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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So I wasn't a fan of Hillary and knew about the Spanish grift, but didn't know about the fake pregnancies or the body photoshopping. I just thought she had a lot of kids and was really in shape. I thought the photos were months after, not AT THE HOSPITAL.
Anyway, then I saw the surrogate pregnancies she hides to body shame other women, the fake miscarriages, and the trapped kids.
When I saw the stupid Hamptons family photo shoot of her in a bra, I thought what must have happened was she wanted to take a topless photo outdoors (she's a natural yogini, etc.) with all her kids around her (breasts wouldn't show, the kids seating positions would cover the nipples, if you can imagine this), and that Alec drew the line at that.
Like those sexy photos models do, and nipples are strategically covered...her kids would be used to cover them, and she wanted a "nature mother" type of photo shoot. Anyway, hence the bra.
So I kind of had that in the back of my mind. But at some point after that, in the last few months, after I chanced upon this sub (a suggestion sub for comments made about Meghan Markle in this sub, as I am active in a Meghan Markle snark sub), I started having concerns about inappropriate behavior happening in the Baldwin household. It was around when someone posted her photo of her hanging her breasts into a stroller to "breastfeed" while also throwing one leg on top of the stroller so full view was given in the picture of the hanging breast or something.
Outside of this sub at that time, I also read of two things. I learned of actress Jeanette McCurdy's inappropriate behavior by her mother, taking showers with her until she was 16, physical examinations of her, etc.
I also learned of Ariel Leve's memoir, "An inappropriate life." Her mother was a famous author (like award-winning) and who grew up in a penthouse on Park Avenue. This woman's life, as a child, involved famous authors and artists like Truman Capote and Andy Warhol showing up as friends of her mother's to her home. Anyway, her beautiful mother (her beauty was emphasized and she is still alive) used to do disturbing things like have her young daughter lie between her legs while she was naked and pretend she was being "reborn." She told her daughter she loved her so much she wanted to relive that experience. This poor little girl thought it so normal, she invited her friend to lie between her mom's legs on a playdate, and then the friend did it with her (lay between Ariel's mom's legs while the moms was naked). Later, the friend told her parents and the friend's parents didn't allow her to come over to Ariel's again.
So back to Hillary's stupid stroller and naked breast picture. I started worrying what happens when the older boys would come into the room and she does these things. I would imagine they may ask how old kids are before they stop, or why she's always doing it, or any number of questions, and horrifyingly, Hillary, who's kind of topless in so many IG photos, just sitting there topless in the privacy of her home while talking about this, or worse, telling them they are not too old to do this still with her and how it just shows how much Mami loves them, etc.
I mean, seriously, if she's posting the "twin" fake breastfeeding photo in the grass, bra squished out, those older boys were at that photo shoot. And this is in public! It's, very sadly, not that farfetched to think that far, far worse happens in private.
The same could be said of posting poor Marilu with feces in her diaper, on a bathroom floor. I mean, what is happening in private if this is in public?
Sorry for the long post. Percentage-wise, abusive behavior like this only happens a small percent of the time. But, in sheer numbers, if you think about billions of people in the world, the raw number of sickos adds up.
I've been thinking of this for months and didn't want to post, but now, after seeing the "twin" breastfeeding picture and the dirty diaper photo in this sub (both earlier today), I feel I need to, Not that anyone in this sub can do anything about this.
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