{"id":369,"date":"2025-04-30T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/?p=369"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:27:26","slug":"tome-tome-again-podcast-uglies-by-scott-westerfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/tome-tome-again-podcast-uglies-by-scott-westerfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Tome &amp; Tome Again Podcast: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In episode 11 of Tome &amp; Tome Again podcast, Jess and I discussed Scott Westerfeld\u2019s 2005 YA dystopian novel&nbsp;<em>Uglies<\/em>, the first in the Uglies trilogy, about a world in which everyone undergoes surgery at 16 to become \u2018pretty\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We talk beauty messaging in the early 2000s and the concept of the \u2018chill girl\u2019 \/ \u2018tomboy\u2019, as the morally grey Tally adventures to a rebel settlement where people escape to live as \u2018uglies\u2019 for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the episode here:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"Uglies\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=f9jft-18956fa-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1b1b1b&#038;font-color=auto&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other books we discuss in this episode include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the Murderbot series by Martha Wells<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Murder by Memory<\/em> by Olivia Wright<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Forcing<\/em> by Paul E. Hardesty<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop<\/em> by Hwang Bo-Reum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Thinning<\/em> by Inga Simpson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Human Nature<\/em> by Jane Rawson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Braiding Sweetgrass<\/em> by Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lightfall book 1: <em>The Girl &amp; The Galdurian<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In episode 11 of Tome &amp; Tome Again podcast, Jess and I discussed Scott Westerfeld\u2019s 2005 YA dystopian novel&nbsp;Uglies, the first in the Uglies trilogy, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,308],"tags":[325,310,126,396,409,410,318,406,407,408,309,411,381,316,317,104],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-tome-tome-again-podcast","tag-book-discussion","tag-books","tag-coming-of-age","tag-hwang-bo-reum","tag-inga-simpson","tag-jane-rawson","tag-jess-gately","tag-martha-wells","tag-olivia-wright","tag-paul-e-hardesty","tag-podcast","tag-robin-wall-kimmerer","tag-scott-westerfeld","tag-tome-and-tome-again","tag-tota","tag-young-adult","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}