I just moved to Baltimore, so of course I picked that up!

Agreed. I also came to the original way late (like I think season 4 came out within a year or 2 after I watched the original) so I wasn't as nostalgic.

One of my favorite plot points!

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I enjoyed the Netflix reboot. I had binge-watched the entire thing before I read any Internet commentary, and was confused by why so many people hated it.

I know, right???

Yeah, I agree that was the worst part of the book. I mostly skimmed those parts.

Yeah, I can imagine. I read Adelstein's book a few years ago. It wasn't very fresh in my mind when I read this one.

Oh, that was a great book! I had forgotten he had covered this case.

Totally understand. I'll add for others that the case is really horrifying, and it may be difficult for some people to get through, especially survivors of sexual assault.

You're welcome!

If anyone is interested, the book The People Who Eat Darkness covers Lucie Blackman's murder and goes into detail on the scene the author describes, without slandering Lucie or being totally exoticizing. I read it last month when I was on a true crime binge.

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I'm excited about this! I lived abroad in south China for years, and I've traveled from one end of the county to the other, mostly by myself. I love giving travel advice for China. Would love to try writing for you guys!

Yes, residents in the city I lived in were able to successfully able to protest a uranium plant a fwe years ago:

I had a really bad onset of food poisioning around the gate of Yonsei University in Seoul, where I did a summer program in 2009. I ate dinner by myself at a small restaurant outside the gate, and was walking back to the dorm, which was less than quarter mile. It was hot and I was wearing a thin cotton skirt, and the…

Freedom was SO BAD. I think it will come to be regarded as one of the most overrated books of the decade. Like what American Beauty is to ‘90s movies.

Class? Like a college class? Or just a class you take for fun? If this is some kind of degree-granting institution that’s so, so inappropriate.

Because outside of maybe US/North American restaurant experience, food is a social experience , not just something you put in your face (my husband's family had a Passover meltdown over the topic of gluten last year.)

Because it cures some pyschosomatic ailments it's OK to impose your dietarty resitrictions on others? I really like your writimg, but yeah, NO.

It seems like there is a pretty set narrative for female child/tween stars to follow on the way to becoming legit adult stars. 1) Have a wholesome child star career 2) Around 18 do something outrageous and SEXXXY and let people pearl-clutch 3) go on with your life and career, and as long as you stay conventionally…