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Title: Dirty Talking Rival
Author: Pippa Grant
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Trope: Friends to Enemies to Lovers
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Release Date: June 27, 2019
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Master Baker by Pippa Grant
High school friends reconnect after ten years apart. Both feel the other caused the separation and loss of friendship…but both would like to be friends again…if they can bury their hurt feelings and make the effort to reconnect.
What I liked:
* The small town feeling
* Annika’s dedication to her mother, sister, and her mother’s dream to own and run a bakery
* The mother’s grief over losing her eyesight
* Grady’s love of family, and the way he sweet talks his baking in the making
* The idea of the bakery war to increase income for both owners
* The baseball games
* The supporting characters and how they added to the story
* Sue – the goat & Long Beak Silver – the parrot
* That Annika had a dream and pursued it, even if it meant leaving Grady behind
* That there was growth and maturation in both lead characters by the end of the book – they began to communicate and shared their feelings rather than reliving and reverting to the way they probably behaved when in high school
What I didn’t like:
* Who and what I was meant not to like
* The emphasis on “war” between to nearby towns without ever really knowing if or what the reason was behind the discord
Thank you to the author for the ARC – This is my honest review.
3-4 Stars
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Despite growing up in rival towns, Grady Rock and I were high school best friends.
But now?
Now, he’s my biggest enemy. My dirty-talking, master-baking, grudge-holding, hot-as-sin enemy.
All I wanted was to help my mom run her bakery after a family emergency left her unable to do it herself.
Never mind that I can’t bake. Or that I never wanted to move home again. Or that this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I could use a friend right now.
All Grady freaking Rock cares about now is that I’m his competition.
It’s town against town. Bakery against bakery. Old friend against old friend.
Until Grady finds out why I’m back home.
And suddenly, Mr. Get Out of My Way is more like the boy I knew in high school. But older. Wiser. And infinitely more irresistible.
I resisted his charm in high school for the sake of my future. But if I give in to it now, am I sleeping with the enemy?
Dirty Talking Rival is a deliciously fun friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring a smooth-talking baker, the one who got away, and a goat with more matchmaking tendencies than a nosy old grandpa. It stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers.
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Pippa Grant is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears run down your leg. When she's not reading, writing or sleeping, she's being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip cookies.
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Title: Finding the Road to Us
Series: The Wilder Brothers #6
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Jilted Love/MMF/Friends to Lovers
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Release Date: December 11, 2023
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im so mad that this is a side blog account and not a main account. i started this blog when i was still relatively new to tumblr and i think i was… like. fourteen years old or something. i never thought i would continue for this long, and i never knew so many people would like the content i put out here (i have over 9k followers which is literally mind-blowing, like wow….).
because this isnt a main account, i cant respond to replies left on my posts, i cant really reply to anyone unless i reblog !! i cant even follow people with this blog, it just comes up as my main blog (which is not pjo-related… rip my failed attempts at organising my fandoms to different blogs). so my avenues of interaction with a lot of you are seriously impeded.
so i just want to say i am so thankful for all of you, i read every single person’s tags who reblog my stuff, i read all of your replies and every time im crying screaming rolling around on the ground in agony over the fact i CANT REPLY!!
i know my posts are super inconsistent these days, im glad so many are still here! i think i may change some of my content eventually (never gonna get rid of the incorrect quote stuff, i’ll just be adding some other things like pjo headcanons or analyses or something), just to spice some stuff up on here.
#also! im currently writing a fantasy book rn and have been so stressed over the fact that authors are expected to have a following before—#—reaching out to agencies with a manuscript. and i seriously stress about creating a following.#so my backup plan is literally you guys. my four year old pjo account on tumblr with its silly little quotes 😭😭#and like. if that works. could you imagine. that you guys may actually save my future ??? like?? i love you guys for just following me bc ??#YOU MAY SAVE ME FROM THE CAPITALIST PRESSURES OF SENSATIONALISING ONES OWN ART FOR INVESTED SUCCESS YAYYYYYY#anyways im not going to promote it now bc its still in the first draft area. not near for me to even go thru revisions yet. i may never-#-promote it on here. i dont want to annoy people with suddenly changing tracks. and i def wont transform this blog into a self promo for me-#-thats never going to happen! i would make another blog for it but for now everything’s just an idea!#i just wanted to say thank you because this has been giving me so much anxiety especially since graduating high school. the problems of—#—trying to be an author have become more pressing and immediate for me. i hope it will happen one day but who knows#you guys give me confidence though. and i literally cannot thank u guys enough (I HATEEEEE THE CAREER ANXIETY)#not riordanverse#not incorrect either#for followers#rewriting#sorry for the whole essay in the tags ☠️
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Sorry guys, rant incoming. I considered deleting this but I put too much effort in.
"girlboss" "girl dinner" "girl math" "boy math" "gen z are making fun of us for wearing x" "here's how to dress like gen z:" "girlies" "girl's night" "boy's night" "me and the boys" "90s kid"
"I don't feel like an adult" "I'm 34 and I can tell you, I still don't feel like an adult either." "My parents seemed like real adults when they were my age." "I still feel like a teenager."
Maybe you'd feel more like an adult if you started calling yourself one. Maybe you'd feel more like an adult if you stopped trying to dress like a teenager. Maybe you should move your bed out from the wall and get a wallet. Maybe find a calendar app that works for you.
You are an adult. Even if you live with your parents. Even if you do part-time shift work at minimum wage. Even if you haven't graduated college. Even if you are single. These are adult things to do. Because you are doing them. And you are an adult. Start treating yourself like an adult. Fake it 'till you make it if you have to.
In other, writing-related, news:
That trend on TikTok of 20-40 something women authors (and writers yet to be published) promoting their books like,
"Omg! I can't believe I've sold X number of copies!! I never thought I would!" "Ahhhh imagine publishing your book and all your dreams come true and now you get to meet famous authors and work with big names in the industry!!" "Would you read a book where [proceeds to list a bunch of oversaturated tropes that tell me nothing about the actual plot]?"
It reeks of infantilization. If you didn't believe anyone would want to read your book, why should I? You made it on the NYT bestseller list! Stop acting like a mega-fan who got to meet a celebrity. You are their peer! "Would you read a book--" What if I wouldn't? Why does it matter to you what I think of your book? And for the love of god stop hiding behind tropes you know are already popular. "Here is my book: This is what it is about." Have some goddamn confidence.
It is fine to mention in passing "this idea was really far-fetched so I didn't know if it would appeal" or "I was struggling with self-esteem when I wrote this". It's fine to fan a little bit. It's fine to discuss the tropes in your book. But why are you building your brand as an author off of your inferiority complex? You are using your poor self-esteem as a marketing tactic to seem "humble" and "relatable" but it's coming across as unprofessional and desperate for reassurance. You are an adult. You are competent. The more you act like it the more you will believe it.
And of course, I haven't seen a man promote his book this way...
On another note, do any of the 20-40 something women writers who do "write with me" videos on TikTok actually enjoy writing or are they just doing it for the aesthetic?
They all have gorgeous minimalism writing spaces full of white and pink and a macbook beneath a window. Their makeup is done and they are conventionally pretty to start with. But their entire video is just them talking about how little progress they made, how many pages they deleted, how often they got distracted, how frustrated they are. And like, yeah. We all have those days. But what about the good lines you can't wait to share? The days when the words just flow? The cool stuff you learned while researching? Why don't you ever make videos about that?
Is this some other attempt to seem "relatable" by only talking about the "bad" side of writing? Because again, it's coming across as lacking confidence at best and, at worst, that you don't actually know how to write. And that is not the brand you want as an author.
Again, its always women. Why must women market their self-esteem issues in order to sell their art? Why must we be perpetually awestruck children (girlies, book girls) in over our heads?
#also why do I get the sense these women are selling a lifestyle more than they are actually promoting their own books?#I feel like someone more qualified than me could link this to modelling good christian gender roles#and cultural conformity or something#it isn't lost on me how much of this is about trying to seem humble#and how much validation is tied to protestant success and hard work ideas#is this where the indoctrination starts?#give us 'role models' as influencers#also Alex Aster of Lightlark fame is the WORST for this#her content makes me physically sick to watch#and again interesting that it is pretty widely agreed on at this point that she is an industry plant#interesting that the industry plant is leaning so heavy on the humility and infantilization of women tactics#as though appealing to protestant christians is a major concern of the industry#what's that about? is it just sales? or is it related to those evangelical groups trying get books banned?#how much influence does conservative christian america have within the trad pub industry?#maybe I am really reaching here idk#I don't have any sources#it's just speculation I am open to be proven wrong
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I blame the wave of #girlboss feminism (mostly adopted by white women) in the 2010s for erasing media literacy and like... just basic thinking and making everyone hate disney princesses with their "terrible messages" for little girls. like. were people even watching the movies?
#oh i fell for that too for a second#i mean sure there are obviously plenty of things that did not age well and we should critique about the princess movies#but come on#ariel did not give up her voice for a man were you listening to part of your world?#and cinderella was a fucking badass ok#the conversation surrounding the movies that came after 2010#u guys remember how Elsa and anna were praised for being feminist icons#dont get me started on remakes#when they did beauty and the beast and they lowkey promoted belle as being better than the others bcs she reads books#i think ppl forgot that the remakes only emphasised these quote on quote girlboss empowering traits in the remakes#key word being emphasised not ADDED#bcs THOSE TRAITS WERE ALWAYS THERE PPL JUST FORGOT
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you cant fucking do this to me. you cant have me read one of the most beautifully written romance books ive ever read and then only fill up the books tumblr tag with wolfwood trigun.
#i dont want to talk about him i want to talk about how blue spent a century growing a message in a tree for red#or how red ripped her body apart trying to save blue#i want to talk about the prose and the romeo and juliet parallels you cant do this to me#you cant give me that and only talk about the guy from trigun cause a guy who liked him promoted the book#echoed voice
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OH OKAY SLEEPOVER TIME. umm. would u rather.....have bucktaylor endgame and for buck and eddie's friendship slowly drift apart.... OR for buck to die in eddie's arms and taylor is never heard from again. sorry love u
hey spencer you are evil for both of these BUT the mere idea of buck and eddie's friendship slowly drifting apart is fr my worst nightmare so give me the dramatic death scene any day!! i'd readily take one of them dying and haunting the other one for life shaunajackie style if the alternative is the two of them becoming strangers. and if it's ANYTHING like the shooting or the well collapse i just know that ryan & oliver would kill it and i would eat every second of it up 🙏🏼
it's a sleepover!!
#altho to be fair i don't actually hate taylor i just don't like her & buck as a couple n think their r/s did them both a disservice 😭#her appearance in 6x17 had me giggling fr bc i enjoyed her most in an antagonist role like in 2x06. let women actually be terrible 2k24#i would not mind if she showed up in s7 just to promote her tell all book and then we got a montage of her secretly working on it while#she was in a relationship with buck (bc how else would she have gotten that published so fast LMAO) and then also another montage#of everyone in the firefam taking turns reading chapters of her book in increasingly dramatic voices while buck sits there groaning#....wait. how did this turn into a spiel abt taylor kelly and her book?#ANYWAY. BUCK DYING IN EDDIE'S ARMS!! i am here for the angst i am here for a whispered love confession at death's door i am here for#ryan & oliver to give the performance of a lifetime i am here for it!!#not really bc i need them to end up happy and also get married. but.#for the sake of the game. let's kill buck#answered#spencer tag
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Why couldn't jk Rowling just be a good fucking person??? I have all these Harry Potter decorations I saved up for YEARS for when I had a place of my own to decorate. They're so cool! But I just. Feel too fucked up about it to use them
Like she HAD to go and actively promote genocide against people like me
Fucking cunt
#i know this is the pettiest thing to be mad about but im decorating my common area and just. i have the coolest harry potter shit. and it#used to be so important to me too#i still feel that like. magical nostolgia#but rage ursurps it#it fucking. her shit is toxic and it just tarnished all my good memories and shit#idk#and like. technically i could donate them or give them away. but i just. im annoyed that people still like. engage in harry potter stuff#literally. genocide going on right now. and half my friends are cool with promoting her stuff like it doesnt matter#i had a coworker give me an hp related item for secret santa cause they remembered we talked about it#meanwhile the conversatjon was "i loved hp as a kid but the author being a transphobic piece of shit ruined it for me and associating with#it gives me bad vibes#and i just. like idk. i dont#it was genuinley a HUGE part of my life. it was my comfort series. my earleist memories are of pretending to play quidditch.#its just. fucked up#and after all that its still sorta my comfort series. i tried cutting of hp fanfiction and managed...6 months?#and i feel guilty about it#and while theres a hah fuck you jk rowling your series gave a trans person joy thing going on#it feels like it would be. i definitely wouldnt be comfortable displaying all my cool hp shit#even though there were pther people involved in it and stuff#im probably gonna cut up my old hp books and make vent art out of it some time
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Saw your tags and yeah, that's one reason why I'm so picky about books nowadays. Light novels are good for having that and illustrations, and the english translations of MXTX's works are good too, I love that they include glossaries. The only english novel I've seen with even a glossary section are the ones in The Locked Tomb series.
Yeah, exactly!
I do read light novels occasionally, I've really enjoyed the Bleach and Naruto ones over the years. But like you said, there's very little being produced in English that has that format. There's some fiction for older children (like, older kid/pre-teen range, not quite YA yet; I've seen some new titles at the library), but that's it, and it's such a shame because half the fun is glossaries and maps and shit.
Idk, it just seems like everything these days is like; fast fashion, fast fiction, all about the quantity and constantly producing content rather than putting care into the stuff they produce :/
#it's a trend i've also noticed in things like cosplay and cosplay photography#and for that the timeline pretty much coincides with IG destroying its algorithm in favor of promoting vid content#like the clock app and its rise in popularity rather than giving photography its due attention#and tbh maybe covid was a contributor bc everyone was at home producing and posting content and not really engaging at conventions and#stuff since everything was shut down#but#it sucks#i hate how fast everything has been moving in favor of quantity#i never really stopped to consider that it may be a factor in why i don't read books anymore until i saw the post#i always just assumed it was internal and something broke in me post-college but#now that i think more about it it makes complete sense#just like how 'fast cosplay' trends have made me avoid posting my photos online regularly#i guess it just brings out distaste in me :/
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Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis (Chapter CXLV) // Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto (Chapter 571)
#comparatives#naruto uzumaki#kakashi hatake#minato namikaze#naruto#this is kakashi mistaking naruto for minato btw if you’re confused#im thanking this man that did a review on Dom Casmurro in English for the translation of the phrase and reminding me it exists#so long since I read the book really but it’s amazing#so if you’re reading this and you like unreliable narrators please give this book a chance#tho my favorite book of his is Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas and I think the title in English is Epitath of a Small Winner#really good book with another kinda unreliable narrator but the narration throughout the book is so much fun#anyway that’s me trying to promote Machado de Assis and Brazilian literature through a naruto themed post on tumblr.com
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Shows you should save physically immediately
Over the Garden Wall -- It's being pulled from HBO Max on August 31 and knowing HBO, there's a chance it'll be pulled sooner. *I have now made a Google Drive of all the episodes of OTGW. Please, please, please, PLEASE, save these on a physical device.
The Owl House -- Disney has tried to bury this show many times (giving it a weird release schedule, cutting the budget, etc) and has even cancelled the show. Also, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue soon and I doubt TOH will survive*I have now also saved all the episodes of TOH. Click here for the posts with all of the episodes
Amphibia -- I know less about the behind the scenes BS than TOH but Amphibia was screwed over by Disney mainly by poor promotion. Also since one of the protagonist is openly bisexual*, like TOH, I really can't imagine this would survive.*Amphibia has also been saved. Go here for the post with all the episodes.
Steven Universe -- Cartoon Network cancelled Steven Universe and gave it a weird release schedule, it has also just been pulled from HBO Max.
Gravity Falls -- Once again, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue at some point in the future and between Wendy being canonically bi, Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland being in a relationship, and Alex Hirsch (being the amazing man that he is) constantly calling Disney out on their BS, I imagine that Disney would be more than willing to nuke Gravity Falls. *I’ve also saved Gravity Falls now go to the main post here to see all the episodes.
and most importantly
Every single show, book, game, fanfiction, movie, etc you've ever loved
We now know that at any moment's notice, streaming services can and will just nuke their catalogue without hesitation. If it's digital, it can be removed and there's a likely chance you'll never see it again.
So, please take some time to save anything you love on an external device. It could be a box set (it can be official or fan-made one), a USB, or anything.
If you have a physical copy of something, it's yours forever and no one can take that away from you.
*Edit because I’ve seen some confusion about this. Read this again, it’s “one of the protagonists” not “the protagonist.” Sasha is the one who’s bi, Anne’s sexuality hasn’t been confirmed.
Also in addition to this, people have reblogged this to say Steven Universe is still on HBO. Since I don’t have HBO, I’ve been going off of what people have been saying and I’ve seen it mentioned that HBO was taking off SU. You should still save it though.
*Edit 2 if any of the links here don’t work, check the original post as I might’ve changed/updated them. If that still doesn’t work, send me an ask or DM I’ll give them to you.
#toh#the owl house#gravity falls#steven universe#su#amphibia#over the garden wall#otgw#others you should probably save >#rwby#she ra#miraculous ladybug#the legend of korra#< any show with a queer cast#(and/or has been banned in another country)#you should save it immediately#top posts
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i've poked around and added a slightly canon-divergent season 2 verses to my about / verses page!
#( ooc. ) DOLPHINS!#my alternate s2 verse is that aziraphale never went back to heaven bc he's determined to still be a comfortably terrible angel#but he took the promotion anyway so he could secure crowley's safety#bc i cannot imagine my book omens aziraphale being taken in by the metatron like that i Really can't#metatron: you can make a difference!#aziraphale only half-listening: mhm. oh yes. good gracious. jesus christ you say? oh yes i'm sure i trust every word.#aziraphale ten minutes later in the bookshop: so if i were to. hypothetically. con heaven into making me an archangel#without doing Any extra work. what would you say#also this verse gives any crowleys who are interested a little wiggle room to be in on the con or as pissed about it as in canon#and whether or not Every happened depends on how ya feel about it#idk i have very strong opinions about this version of aziraphale specifically and it makes my outlook on the finale Wonky#suffice to say you get the beeeest of both worlds
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Title: Three to Get Ready
Series: Hughes #3
Author: Skye Warren
Publisher: Dangerous Press
Genre: Billionaire Romance
Release Date: February 16, 2023
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There’s a ticking time bomb in Finn Hughes's head.
That means he has to prepare everyone. Eva. The baby. The company, which is in an uproar after the announcement. He needs to get them ready. Because when the curse hits, it will be too late to say goodbye.
Welcome to the Midnight Dynasty... The warring Morelli and Constantine families have enough bad blood to fill an ocean, and their brand new stories will be told by your favorite dangerous romance authors.
WARNING: This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. Enter at your own risk...
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I saw this book entitled "Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask" by Mary Siisip Genuisz and i thought oh I HAVE to read that. The author is Anishinaabe and the book is all about Anishinaabe teachings of the ways of the plants.
Going from the idiotic, Eurocentric, doomerist colonialism apologia of that "Cambridge companion to the anthropocene" book, to the clarity and reasonableness of THIS book, is giving me whiplash just about.
I read like 130 pages without even realizing, I couldn't stop! What a treasure trove of knowledge of the ways of the plants!
Most of them are not my plants, since it is a different ecosystem entirely (which gives me a really strikingly lonely feeling? I didn't know I had developed such a kinship with my plants!) but the knowledge of symbiosis as permeating all things including humans—similar to what Weeds, Guardians of the Soil called "Nature's Togetherness Law"—is exactly what we need more of, exactly what we need to teach and promote to others, exactly what we need to heal our planet.
She has a lot of really interesting information on how knowledge is created and passed down in cultures that use oral tradition. The stories and teachings she includes are a mix of those directly passed down by her teacher through a very old heritage of knowledge holders, stories with a newer origin, and a couple that have an unknown origin and (I think?) may not even be "authentically" Native American at all, but that she found to be truthful or useful in some way. She likes many "introduced" plants and is fascinated by their stories and how they came here. (She even says that Kudzu would not be invasive if we understood its virtues and used it the way the Chinese always have, which is exactly what I've been saying!!!)
She seems a bit on the chaotic end of the spectrum in regards to tradition, even though she takes tradition very seriously—she says the way the knowledge of medicinal and otherwise useful plants has been built, is that a medicine person's responsibility is not simply to pass along teachings, but to test and elaborate upon the existing ones. It is a lot similar to the scientific method, I would call it a scientific method. Her way of seeing it really made me understand the aliveness of tradition and how there is opportunity, even necessity, for new traditions based upon new ecological relationships and new cultural connections to the land.
I was gut punched on page 15 when she says that we have to be careful to take care of the Earth and all its creatures, because if human civilization destroys the biosphere the rocks and winds will be left all alone to grieve for us.
What a striking contrast to the sad, cruel ideas in the Cambridge companion of the Anthropocene, where humans are some kind of disease upon the Earth that oppresses and "colonizes" everything else...!...The Earth would GRIEVE for us!
We are not separate from every other thing. We have to learn this. If I can pass along these ideas to y'all through my silly little posts, I will have lived well.
#symbiosis#the ways of the plants#you are a caretaker#you are not separate from every other thing#indigenous literature#books
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logansargeant STRAYAAA 🦘🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺
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↪ user sometimes i forget that logan and y/n are both gen z 😂
user the puppy is so adorable 🥺
↪ user i wonder whose it is 👀 y/n's said that her schedule doesn't allow for pets
oscarpiastri not my birthday cake...
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↪ user who the hell is oscar piastri and why is y/n replying to his comment 😭
↪ user don't you talk about my favourite best-selling author like that 🤺
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yourusername can't believe that little kid is now a 3-time nyt best-selling author 🥹 so proud of you oscarpiastri 💗 i haven't been able to put eighty-one seconds down 📖 available in bookstores near you!
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user i love how y/n always supports and promotes oscar's books 🥺
↪ user they're so adorable together my heart can't take it
oscarpiastri Thanks for the encouragement. Couldn't have done it without you 👍
↪ yourusername damn right you couldn't have 😤
user okay but who took the photo of y/n 👀
↪ user i'm betting it was oscar 😜
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oscarpiastri Thank you to everyone who's been on this journey with me. Eighty-One Seconds is finally yours and we can't be more happy to share it with you. As many of you have guessed, it is my homage to Y/N and all the time we have spent together. My wife, my love, my heart. I'm grateful that you're in my life. Forgive me for re-using my words, but here's to eighty-one more years together.
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user hold on a damn second 🤚 his WIFE??? when was this a thing 🧐
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↪ user give us answers please 🙏 i haven't had peace since oscar posted this
yourusername i love you too, oscar jack piastri 🤍
↪ user oh he literally named his mc after himself 😭
↪ user GOODBYE??? JACK AS IN HIS MIDDLE NAME??? oh my god they really weren't subtle
williamsracing signed copy when 😏
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user honestly i'm surprised they managed to hide their relationship for this long 💀
↪ user oh they did NOT we were just blind
↪ logansargeant I didn't find out until I got the wedding invitation in the mail 🤝
↪ landonorris i think that's just cause you're oblivious mate 😂
↪ logansargeant what???
↪ landonorris they literally make out all the time in williams hospitality
↪ yourusername lando... 😒
user if your man isn't writing a book professing his love for you, what's he doing with his life?
↪ user oscar's set the standard 😌
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Okay, I'll admit it. I'm one of those people who priates books. But only because I've bought so many books that disappointed me! I need to flip through a bit of it before buying.
Sometimes, if the author has kofi or patreon or something, I like to just give them the full price of the book. That way they get it all. But I also know that this isn't the perfect answer because it messes with stats and actual readership and therefore advertising and the platform they are selling on promoting it....
It's complicated. Maybe I should buy the book normally and tip the author what the publishers/printers/distributors take? But that can get really pricey fast. Ugh.
Books are often a luxury when you have no money. I’m very familiar with that. I've saved up for several months sometimes because I wanted a $5.99 ebook and didn't want to steal from the author. That’s just what being poor is. Wanting something doesn't entitle me to it.
That said, most books these days have a reading sample on purchasing sites so you can see if you like the style. Most sites also offer refunds, at least on digital books, before you reach a certain point. (please be sparing with refunds if you can. The refund is taken from the author/publisher, not Amazon. Same with audible. My audible funds are often close to zero or negative because people just return and reuse their monthly credit.)
You can also check and see if the books are available at your library, and if not, request them. Honestly, library sales are so, so, so good for authors. Libraries pay higher lending license rates to authors, and also, depending on the country, every time someone checks out my book via Libby or the local equivalent, I get a little tiny amount of money (we’re talking literal pennies, but it can add up), and it increases the library’s likelihood of re-purchasing the library lending license the following year.
You can alsp sign up to be an ARC (advanced reader copy) reader through places like NetGalley or by checking if the author offers ARCs as well. In a world of algorithms, books live and die by reviews. Some of us are quite happy to give out ARCs for new and upcoming titles.
Failing that and you have absolutely no other option... Yeah. Ko-fi or whatever is an option. Even if I wish they didn't do it because it fucks my sales metrics, I still appreciate when I get a little ding on ko-fi for the exact amount of the book. It's always telling. I even sometimes get little anon messages going “sorry for pirating your book it was really good.”
Like thank you. Please buy the next one properly, lol.
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