{"id":6057,"date":"2024-11-18T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=6057"},"modified":"2024-11-17T23:08:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T04:08:34","slug":"episode-254-uglies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-254-uglies\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 254 &#8211; Uglies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/uglies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/uglies-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Uglies by Scott Westerfeld\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/uglies-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/uglies-146x220.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/uglies.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On occasion, listeners have suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9781442419810\"><em>Uglies<\/em> by Scott Westerfeld<\/a> as a Flashback Summer title, but since we&#8217;re all Crumblies here, we were full adults when this contemporary classic YA dystopian novel was released.\u00a0 Our book club hostess\/cult leader Grace joined us to discuss this book that<em> some<\/em> of us think deserves Best Bestseller status. Listen to this episode while waiting for your SpagBol to cook!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-254-uglies\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bossip.com\/2724919\/uglies-trailer-laverne-cox\/\">&#8220;Laverne Cox Talks Pretty Privilege And &#8216;UGLIES&#8217; Role&#8221; by Jane\u00e9 Bolden<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9781250338938\"><em>The Merriest Misters<\/em> by Timothy Janovsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5444\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6057-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/254Uglies.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/254Uglies.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/254Uglies.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/254Uglies.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=6057-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/254Uglies.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"254Uglies.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On occasion, listeners have suggested Uglies by Scott Westerfeld as a Flashback Summer title, but since we&#8217;re all Crumblies here, we were full adults when this contemporary classic YA dystopian novel was released.\u00a0 Our book club hostess\/cult leader Grace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-254-uglies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,154,2512],"class_list":["post-6057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-podcast","tag-scott-westerfeld","tag-uglies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6066,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions\/6066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}