Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!

[London_girl123]

Given her favourite series ever is Harry Potter you'd think if Ruby wanted to write for a younger audience she'd write something more in the fantasy realm of things. Can't imagine stressed school kids will find much escapism in reading a book about a stressed school kid

 

[gossip_guy]

Isn't it so boring to write essentially the same book twice over? I struggle sometimes to work properly on the book I'm writing, and it's all new ideas / plot points than what I've written before.

For anyone else, it'd be incredibly boring and creatively unfulfilling to rehash the same book twice. For Ruby it's a dream come true, since she loves taking every shortcut she can and avoiding work. She's not in this for the creative passion and fulfilment, so that's not a problem for her.

Erimentha was a cobbled-together mess of stolen plot points and clichés pulled from the middle-grade bullying books she was reading at the time. Now she gets to recycle that entire book, slap on some stolen plot points from YA mysteries that she's suddenly interested in and she has another book with no real work of her own.

 

[springstudy]

The funniest part for me is how they’re not even recognising Erimentha or saying it’s Ruby’s work.

Like if you really wanted to be a writer, surely laughing about it and making a video on something you got so wrong would be funny and even get more attention from other readers?

but they just pretend it doesn’t exist. If you think about how ducked up that is haha, they’re lying just to try and get Ruby a fresh start like what

 

[Hannahebee]

Tbf if you want to enjoy anything written by Ruby Granger, then you need to throw any sort of logical thinking or common sense like that out of the window before you even start mate

Tbh I don't want to read her book and I have no intention of ever doing so.

 

[irunforfun]

Reading her agent’s blurb, it makes sense why she may have taken on Ruby. They both seem to have a wonderful command of the meaning of words and grammar

 

[theMoth]

can't believe I really made an account here. lol it's fun to read the stuff about Ruby, but I also feel a bit bad?! I mean, I'm in my late 30s. I really don't have a life.
I always wanted to be a writer. My first attempts at the tender age of 7-ish were ... well, I'm still waiting for my Pulitzer Prize! Reading the blurb of her book reminds me a bit of the stories I wrote as a kid.
If Ruby can do it, I can do it too, right? (funnily enough, I have the time, because I'm graduating from university at the end of the year and still have no plans for the future. If I pretend to be an author, it should work with my book, I guess. And I even got inspired by said wannabe-writer/youtuber/our favourite person).

btw I still don't understand what exactly getting a first means other than getting a first is very good. The British system is so different from the German. But "first" sounds better than 1 oder very good or 1.0 oder whatever.

 

[Ilaariaa]

Reading her agent’s blurb, it makes sense why she may have taken on Ruby. They both seem to have a wonderful command of the meaning of words and grammar

I noticed that too lol

 

[Lutxy]

I have read the blurb and there are a few things I don't understand.
1. Who exactly is Janey and why is it Lottie's fault that she has gone missing.
2. How do Janey and Lottie know each other as the blurb does not make this clear.
3. Janey and Lottie are not at the same school as Lottie is doing her GCSE's and Janey will be in Primary school. So, surely the book should be about two girls who are the same age or close to the same age and who are both in Secondary school.

plot twist : Janey does not exist, its Lottie's inner child telling her to start living outside the books and all the professional cleaning .

 

[figgypud]

Is this 9 year old the person that 16 year old Lottyie Pahhhton is a bad friend to? Because I feel like anyone who does read it will find that weird. Surely Ruby realises that most people have friends their own age even if she personally strives to be accepted by 12 year olds.

 

[theMoth]

Is this 9 year old the person that 16 year old Lottyie Pahhhton is a bad friend to? Because I feel like anyone who does read it will find that weird. Surely Ruby realises that most people have friends their own age even if she personally strives to be accepted by 12 year olds.

or Lottie is the bad friend because she has a bad influence on whatshername and therefor, it's Lottie's fault for I forgot the name, ah Janey. Maybe there are drugs involved and and ... I don't know staying up late.

 

[bunnys]

btw I still don't understand what exactly getting a first means other than getting a first is very good. The British system is so different from the German. But "first" sounds better than 1 oder very good or 1.0 oder whatever.

Essentially it's a bit like this:
First = A
2:1 = High B
2:2 = Low B
Third = C

That's a simplification ofc and just the way I explain it in my head!

Also, thanks for the BookTube recs y'all

 

[Griftwood]

or Lottie is the bad friend because she has a bad influence on whatshername and therefor, it's Lottie's fault for I forgot the name, ah Janey. Maybe there are drugs involved and and ... I don't know staying up late.

Lottie accidentally let Janey have a caffeinated beverage after 3 pm, so Janey couldn’t sleep and the monster under the bed got her.

 

[zoeanned]

Is it soon yet?

 

[Hannahebee]

Is it soon yet?

I have to say Ruby is inconsistent when it comes to her videos as last Saturday she was supposed to upload a video of when she visited Italy yet she posted about her new desk set-up & iMac unboxing instead and on Monday she said her reaction to her degree results would go up soon, but as of yet she hasn't posted anything although I think we can all guess that she ended up with a first.

 

[taleofthetimes]

Hey guys,

First time posting in a Ruby thread. Has she ever been awarded Dean's Commendation while studying English? I see she was awarded it for the year she studied Philosophy and Theology, but no mention of it for any of the years she studied English Literature. The criteria for being awarded it varies across the colleges at Exeter (you only need to average 70% in the academic year to receive it at the Law School, but at the Business School you have to be in the 95th percentile in your course). If she hasn't received it while studying Literature then she's not among the top performers on the course.

To me it seems like she should've stuck with studying Philosophy and Theology, or even just Theology. She doesn't seem to have the creativity required to be truly successful as a Literature student (rather than just regurgitating other's thoughts).

 

[Griftwood]

I mean yeah… but we’re mainly laughing at your paintede on freckles

 

[gossip_guy]

I mean yeah… but we’re mainly laughing at your paintede on freckles

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I've read it several times and still don't even understand what the hell she means.

She SHOULD wear makeup so that people will laugh at her because she's not "cool enough" to wear it? Or she SHOULD wear makeup because she's realised she's "cool enough" to wear makeup, like the cosmetics police would come taze her for putting on foundation and mascara if her coolness level wasn't high enough?

Didn't she say she never used to wear makeup because a guest speaker at school told her that makeup is antifeminist and she stupidly took that as gospel and started sneering at anyone who put on lipstick for several years after? (I mean, the school let Ruby come back as a guest speaker, they're not exactly vetting these people for adequate brain activity, so I'm not sure why anyone would listen to them.) When did that narrative change in her brain?

And her pretending to know how to iron sure lasted 14 seconds.

 

[bookworm39]

Completely OT, but in this week's English literature & history lecture we were talking about the Romantic poets. One of the poems we discussed was The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by S. T. Coleridge. And because my professor is fantastic, he mentioned the song Iron Maiden had written based on the poem. Now I'm struggling with a mental image of Ruby being confronted with the Iron Maiden song version of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner I somehow don't think she'd appreciate it!

 

[gossip_guy]

The funniest part for me is how they’re not even recognising Erimentha or saying it’s Ruby’s work.

Like if you really wanted to be a writer, surely laughing about it and making a video on something you got so wrong would be funny and even get more attention from other readers?

but they just pretend it doesn’t exist. If you think about how ducked up that is haha, they’re lying just to try and get Ruby a fresh start like what

Yeah, I've said in the past that I'd love to see a video of Ruby looking back at Erimentha and critiquing it in hindsight. It'd be genuinely interesting to see what she thinks are the problems with it and what she'd do differently now. It'd be a chance to show some trace of self-awareness and poke fun at herself, and it'd be (gasp!) something new and original for her channel.

But she's just never mentioned it since and has rewritten history to erase it from her bibliography. When she did that video about writing a children's Christmas book, she said she was excited that she was writing her first middle-grade book, even though a link to buy Erimentha was right there in her video description.

She's still advertising it now, only with an added disclaimer:

She claims to be embarrassed by it now, but still advertises it for sale. I understand why her agent would want to conveniently forget that it exists, because if anyone read that thing, they'd never buy another book from her again unless it was to cringe through and laugh at.

I think Ruby's still proud of her work, thinks it's great and has no idea what's bad about it, she's just embarrassed by the critical comments/lack of response. She thinks the book didn't count, because it wasn't traditionally published, which says everything about her motives for wanting to be a writer. She already is a published writer. She wrote a novel and put it out there. It wasn't good in any way whatsoever, but she did it. Now she's like, "MUMMY, I WANT A PUBLISHING DEAL FROM THE PENGUIN PUBLISHING PEOPLE SO THAT I CAN BE A PROPER WRITER!"

She doesn't want to write for the creative fulfilment of it. She doesn't want to write just to tell a story to have other people read it. She wants to write for praise, accolades and money. She's living in a sad, embarrassing fantasy world.

I mean yeah… but we’re mainly laughing at your paintede on freckles

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Okay, so I just watched that TikTok... Does Ruby know what a 'Get Ready With Me' video is? Aren't you supposed to show yourself...y'know...getting ready? Not just start the video in your final outfit and then have makeup magically appear on your face?

 

[StatusWoe]

"Desirable vegan cooking creations" Is this an article from an alternate universe?

It sounds like one of those foreign-language articles that have been put through Google translate.

You’ve just reminded me that I still have Mother Granger’s poetry book marked as read on my Goodreads, while War Special Operation and Peace languishes unfinished on the shelf

If it makes you feel any better, I've had War Special Ops and Peacekeeping on my literal shelf for about 10 years now. Last year, I finally gave up on the idea of reading Ulysses and sent it to my dad instead.

P.S. Dear god, is it still not soon?