In episode 11 of Tome & Tome Again podcast, Jess and I discussed Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 YA dystopian novel Uglies, the first in the Uglies trilogy, about a world in which everyone undergoes surgery at 16 to become ‘pretty’.
We talk beauty messaging in the early 2000s and the concept of the ‘chill girl’ / ‘tomboy’, as the morally grey Tally adventures to a rebel settlement where people escape to live as ‘uglies’ for the rest of their lives.
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Other books we discuss in this episode include:
- the Murderbot series by Martha Wells
- Murder by Memory by Olivia Wright
- The Forcing by Paul E. Hardesty
- Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
- The Thinning by Inga Simpson
- Human Nature by Jane Rawson
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Lightfall book 1: The Girl & The Galdurian
