I’m really intrigued by this. Is it usual to give out a pre-release copy so far in advance? 5ish months seems a long time between seeing a promotion and being able to buy a book.she wants the brownie points for being vegan enough to not eat it? or she’s too lazy to re-film.
edit: What a fucking surprise, Rootabaga got something for free and LOVES it
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sometimes. I got a review copy last year for a book that came out in August of that year and I got the book in spring. Okay that was not half a year but still.I’m really intrigued by this. Is it usual to give out a pre-release copy so far in advance? 5ish months seems a long time between seeing a promotion and being able to buy a book.
It also sounds like ditched her usual "lemme grab my thesaurus" word vomit reviews and she's just tried to imitate Jack Edwards' usual empty, generic, adjective-filled "reviews" which are purposefully written with easy pull-quotes to try to get his name on the cover of the final print book (which he clearly never read).she wants the brownie points for being vegan enough to not eat it? or she’s too lazy to re-film.
edit: What a fucking surprise, Rootabaga got something for free and LOVES it
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Very common. It gives the publisher chance to build word of mouth, gives critics a chance to read the book ahead of pre-release promotional interviews, plus it gives them time to get notable people to read the book, review it and give the marketing team a choice quote that they'll then have time to add to the final print cover design of the book, like:I’m really intrigued by this. Is it usual to give out a pre-release copy so far in advance? 5ish months seems a long time between seeing a promotion and being able to buy a book.
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I’m partly joking when I say that - but only partly. During university, she would regularly read Sparknotes synopses (and c/p these in her Notion) before reading the actual works she was supposed to be reading for her classes, and emphasized reading critical essays so as to have talking points for seminars. So my guess is, she probably just skims a lot of the books she claims to read. Even with her leisure reading, she seldom has anything original to say - she’ll quote the back blurb or a review, and when recommending books, she frequently says things like ”it’s a short book” or ”this edition is beautiful”, or even ”everyone should read his book” (no reason given). She’ll skim parts of five books during a ”readathon” but she’s so focused on consuming a quantity or writing that she has no time to reflect on it, talk about it or really process it in any way before moving on to the next book.I can see that everyone here is convinced Ruby never finishes/actually reads her books besiedes the children's books - are there any hidden proofs in her videos? Not that I disagree with you, but for me it's just a feeling that I have, although I think it could be possible that she actually reads what she claims to read.
I think she is not entirely honest about her reading speed. She pretends that she reads really quickly because that’s her ‘thing’ to show high intelligence, and she’ll say she’s ‘read’ a book when actually she’s still reading it. That then trips her up when she tries to speak about the book and it’s clear there are big chunks of it she doesn’t know - like when she talked about eating peaches when reading CMBYN, and she pretended she didn’t see the link even though this was apparently her second or third read through.I’m partly joking when I say that - but only partly. During university, she would regularly read Sparknotes synopses (and c/p these in her Notion) before reading the actual works she was supposed to be reading for her classes, and emphasized reading critical essays so as to have talking points for seminars. So my guess is, she probably just skims a lot of the books she claims to read. Even with her leisure reading, she seldom has anything original to say - she’ll quote the back blurb or a review, and when recommending books, she frequently says things like ”it’s a short book” or ”this edition is beautiful”, or even ”everyone should read his book” (no reason given). She’ll skim parts of five books during a ”readathon” but she’s so focused on consuming a quantity or writing that she has no time to reflect on it, talk about it or really process it in any way before moving on to the next book.
Yeah no, sorry but i dont buy that.I agree with what both of you are saying, but I think she does make herself believe she always reads the whole thing, like by reading it at a very fast pace by missing out large chunks, but by reading at least some sentences on each page. Combine that with online summaries, and there you have the feeling you're not missing out on anything.
I just don't see herself as someone who deliberatively lies to her viewers to such an extent. She's too naive to do that, I think she would feel bad about that so she prefers convincing herself that she actually reads everything.
I feel like the one thing she’s really succeeded at is making everyone think she’s a lot more naive and innocent than she actually is. If it’s not intentional, then at the very least she’s very, very used to lying to herself.I agree with what both of you are saying, but I think she does make herself believe she always reads the whole thing, like by reading it at a very fast pace by missing out large chunks, but by reading at least some sentences on each page. Combine that with online summaries, and there you have the feeling you're not missing out on anything.
I just don't see herself as someone who deliberatively lies to her viewers to such an extent. She's too naive to do that, I think she would feel bad about that so she prefers convincing herself that she actually reads everything.
Yeah...no.I just don't see herself as someone who deliberatively lies to her viewers to such an extent. She's too naive to do that, I think she would feel bad about that
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Okay but how can someone be THAT stupid? I get that influencers (including our not so naive and innocent Ruby) are all fake to a certain extent, but come on, make the tiniest bit of effort at faking, please. Copy your friend's summary, but don't copy from the most popular online encyclopediaI just read the plot summary on Wikipedia of call me by your name (I haven’t read the book or seen the film) and didn’t Ruby use the exact words from the first sentences of the summary in one of her recent videos?
And she also wants to "write 2000 words of book" in one day, apparently. 2000! In one day! That seems like so much to me, especially since it's in addition to multiple other tasks. Then again a mere mortal like me probably cannot comprehend the ways of a real WRITER. Apparently Steven King also writes 2000 words a day, so maybe that's where the inspiration comes from.View attachment 1480858
Ruby taking mummy and daddy on their third holiday of the year to America.
Once again, Robotic Ruby treats friends like transactional relationships, and her new best friend's birthday is an "Admin Task". So is time spent filming with mummy dearest.
She's also starting a commonplace book, because she definitely needs even more places to waste time compiling pointless information.
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