How much do I love your enthusiasm? Your pictures keep rolling in, showing that Reality Bites Back readers are a diverse group — women and men, kids and adults, and people from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and geographic regions. I particularly enjoy the way some of you seem to be having fun with this Readers Gallery community. For example:

It takes a lot to scandalize someone whose work regularly has them negotiating with local politicians in Washington D.C. Nevertheless, here’s historic preservation expert

Kristen Harbeson at the Capitol, shocked–SHOCKED!–by what she’s reading in Reality Bites Back:

As it turns out, Kristen can’t figure out what aggravates her more: sexism and manipulation in reality television… or anything at all on Fox News:

Just outside Los Angeles, professor Melanie Klein’s son, Atticus, wonders which is scarier: reality TV “Frankenbites” (see page 27 in the book, or read my explanation in this Macleans interview) — or little curly-haired skeletons?

If our Twitter conversations have told me anything, I predict that Danielle’s raised eyebrows hint at both the bemusement

and the ire this New Jersey resident is sure to experience as she reads about degrading depictions of women of color on dating, modeling and makeover shows:

Speaking of women of color and reality TV, Raudel Sandoval, a biology research assistant and professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, says the first thing he did when he got the book was immediately jump to chapter six to learn about the tyranny of Tyra Banks, during a period of down time in his lab:

And at Santa Monica College, Elizabeth Pool Chavez says, “I was hooked reading the introduction. As a society we never take into account the importance television has in our lives and how it shapes our beliefs as a whole. I can’t wait to continue reading and meeting you at the LA launch on Sunset Blvd.” (I can’t wait to meet you, either, Elizabeth.)

Check my calendar for more information about the L.A. book reading on Nov. 17th (where I’ll be sharing the mic with author Shira Tarrant and activist Morgane Richardson), and other Reality Bites Back events in NYC, Philly, Denver, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, DC — and RSVP at the relevant events listing on the official Facebook page, or on here in the comments of the calendar pages.

If you’d like to join the Readers Gallery, send a photo of yourself to info[at]wimnonline[dot]org, or upload a photo directly to the Facebook page for the book. (And while you’re at it, “Like” the FB page and talk about the book with fellow readers there.)

And, as always, I’d love to hear what you’re thinking about reality TV and representations of gender, race, class and more in pop culture, whether directly related to the book or not. Weigh in in the comments below.