Ruby Granger #18 Still no deal with Waterstones but half her food was mailed from home

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lottie28

Griftwood said:
It’s this video, around the 8 minute mark. All she says is she’s reading The Sickness by ”Stephen King”.
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I downloaded a sample of one of this author’s books once thinking it was Stephen King (of whom I was a big fan). I could tell by the second page it wasn’t him because the writing was so poor. This was a few years ago so I can’t remember if it was actually poor writing but definitely in comparison to SK - it was obviously not the same person. I’m surprised (and at the same time not at all surprised) she didn’t pick up on it at all.
I think (at the time anyway) he was also self published, at least on the kindle which explains a lot.
 
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slamvs27

Spot on. The whole post reads like a eulogy for some reason. This type of behaviour is not normal and I don't see how she or anyone else can justify it. I don't want to sound morbid but parents aren't gonna be around forever. So who's she gonna leech onto next?
 
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opal73

It's so Ruby to fumble words like that and considering how unbelievably doting her own parents have always been, it's unlikely she'd know anything about people whose parents actually haven't been there for much of our lives and don't see them as the apple of their eye - including the great many who grow up barely knowing or not even knowing one of their parents. Yet another tone deaf post
 
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LitNerd

sitkx said:
“Absence is the greatest indicator of love” = if they’re absent from your life, then they love you..that’s how it reads. I know what she’s trying to say, but to me that’s the completely wrong way to say it
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I think she’s trying to say “absence makes the heart grow fonder” but Ruby can’t bear to use a sentence that us normal people who went to poorly funded state schools would understand so she had to claw at her understanding of the English language to put some other words together and thought that was the best she’d come up with
 
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lottie28

I have to disagree, I think it would be tone deaf if at the end she asked people how much they loved or missed their parents but she doesn’t, and she does acknowledge ‘what home means for the person’ therefore acknowledging that not everyone has home as their parents house.
This world is full of trigger/content warnings etc but I don’t think she shouldn’t ever be able to say how much she loves her parents just because others don’t have a good relationship with theirs.
 
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opal73

Yeah, maybe tone deaf isn't exactly the word. Still could do without the long mushy post
Probably Blakeney or some friend she can be co-dependent with
 
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CatCafe234

To me, it sounds like something that Ma Granger has said to Ruby to try to get her to be a little less clingy - ‘no, honestly Ruby, the more time we spend apart the fonder of each other we’ll become …’
 
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buflesse

I had a different interpretation - I thought she meant that absence from someone makes you realise whether you really love them. But her words are so garbled, who knows
 
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A_Generic_Bookworm

I think it's great that Ruby has such a good relationship with her parents (not so sure about her relation with Martha though) but it's kinda worrying that she can barely go a couple of weeks without seeing them. She's a 21 year old for goodness sake! But it seems that she's become even more dependent on them since she started going to uni. I was watching some of her older study day videos and it seemed quite strange that she could spend all day in her room studying (also having breakfast and lunch in her room) and basically avoiding contact with her family for days on end with no problem all in the name of 'productiviteeee' but now suddenly, she can barely go a few hours without sending an essay-like letter to them? She seems to have regressed more into her childhood fantasies ever since starting uni.
 
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lucieheaton

i've just found out that e l. james (the author of the 50 shades books) went to the same school as ruby lmaooo
 
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Lola123

Fastgirl154 said:
Daddy bones has a hipster unabomber vibe going on and I’m here for it
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Untill his company start paying the amount of tax they’re supposed to, I don’t support him or his looks. Yes the government should shut down the loop hole but hey ho
 
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opal73

I think Ruby's always had issues being on her own. As late as 17 she was afraid to stay home alone by herself and even into university she still struggled with it, having a panic attack and hiding in the bathroom for an hour because she thought someone had broken into the house. It's one of the main reasons she started therapy in the first place. I do think she has a phobia she hasn't quite fully worked through but I also think a big part of this is most likely her parent's tendency to coddle her and rather than encourage her to spread her wings so to speak and spend more time on her own, they treat her as if she's much younger than she really is. Her mum in particular seems the nervous, naturally overprotective sort (on top of her many eccentricities).
 
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Griftwood

Damnit, somehow autoplay is on so I just opened Tattle on the morning train and subjected my fellow passengers to HELLO IT’S ROOBEE
 
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gossip_guy



Wait, didn't she claim to have read this already? Did she give up and DNF it, or has she lost track of her lies?





She's really swinging for the fences with making shit up these days. There's zero chance she read this.
 
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