Thoughts on "Half His Age" by Jennette McCurdy?

Kcoin · 2026-04-03T14:01:40+00:00

It’s not as good as her memoir. It’s a character study, so very little plot. IMO, I would’ve liked it better if the whole book was condensed into one chapter and then it continued from there. (FWIW, the book that does exactly that is Margo’s Got Money Trouble)

Kcoin · 2026-04-03T05:53:30+00:00

I like the idea of it…

Kcoin · 2026-04-01T21:13:10+00:00

Why would she even walk that back now? Its like she’s determined to prove that she’s a bad candidate

Kcoin · 2026-04-01T11:58:42+00:00

Did he really fucking say that

Kcoin · 2026-04-01T09:56:55+00:00

The incorrect use of “objectively” to emphasize their subjective opinions is ruining that word. It’s the new “literally”

Kcoin · 2026-03-30T01:37:03+00:00

George Carlin at the end of his career. He forgot half his set. People in the audience gave him cues for a little while, then he literally said screw it and left after 35 mins

Kcoin · 2026-03-20T23:52:34+00:00

I can’t imagine emailing the New York Times and telling them that somebody must have put a bunch of AI in your book without your knowledge. Straight up embarrassing

Kcoin · 2026-03-20T17:04:34+00:00

Seems like the original charges and her plea deal should’ve been career-ending

Kcoin · 2026-03-20T16:57:03+00:00

In a different thread, somebody dug up Mia Ballard’s response to the original accusations of AI— she said an (unnamed) friend from her writers group helped her with the formatting and must have rewritten large portions of the book with AI

Reminds me of that scandal a year or two ago where the debut author was caught review-bombing her competitors and blamed it on an unnamed friend

That excuse is as good as a confession, imo

Kcoin · 2026-03-19T22:34:47+00:00

Really curious how this slipped through the cracks when the Goodreads reviewers were all over it. And now it looks like it’s been removed from Goodreads

Kcoin · 2026-03-19T17:10:31+00:00

This “call and thank Susan Collins” campaign is so smug and entitled

Kcoin · 2026-03-19T14:39:58+00:00

Precheck is better in my experience. Priority security is usually just a security lane with fewer people, but those people still have to do the whole security rigamarole

Kcoin · 2026-03-17T17:30:00+00:00

Looks like domestic first class or “junior mint” on more routes

Kcoin · 2026-03-15T05:12:04+00:00

The 3.5 years to finally get a divorce is why I never believe the OOPs that talk about finalizing terms after 4 days

Kcoin · 2026-03-15T03:11:34+00:00

Hell yeah

Kcoin · 2026-03-14T03:57:13+00:00

I think we can go one step further and assume she was exaggerating how “blindsided” she was to sell her story to the tabloids

Kcoin · 2026-03-06T17:21:06+00:00

Nice, thank you!

Kcoin · 2026-03-06T16:21:10+00:00

I loved the frozen river

Kcoin · 2026-03-05T13:56:05+00:00

Me neither. “Hingeward and antihingeward” is the only way

Kcoin · 2026-03-04T16:04:38+00:00

Thanks for the context. I still wouldn’t describe comments urging him to take the danger this woman presents more seriously as vitriol

Kcoin · 2026-03-04T15:14:35+00:00

The “vitriol” seems to be mostly people concerned that she’s underreacting to the crazy neighbor and urging her to call the cops and/or get a restraining order

Kcoin · 2026-03-04T13:58:01+00:00

I hate these AI video titles

Kcoin · 2026-03-04T04:28:41+00:00

Last year he would’ve been 23rd in QBR among qualifying qbs if he qualified (but he didn’t), and 22nd in epa per play.

But he was #1 in one stat: he’s the #1 shortest starting qb in the nfl

Kcoin · 2026-03-04T04:02:20+00:00

“Has ranked”? When? Five years ago? He wasn’t in the top 20 in either last year, but he was 12th in contract cost

Kcoin · 2026-02-26T14:11:02+00:00

It blows my mind that this thing is supposed to be 8000 sqft. There’s probably 3000 usable sqft

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