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danila_medvedev t1_jegu61v wrote

If the books were not found anywhere else, probably do not report. The seller is misleading buyers, but he provides a valuable service. May be warn him in a DM not to misrepresent the books and warn that you could report him. But better to have access to books in such a way than not.

if he was selling HP copies or something, then reporting him would be ok.

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VivianSherwood t1_jegsgb3 wrote

Ohhh I love it so much. I follow Lori on Instagram and every time I see her posts I remember her book and how amazing it is. It was such a candid, emotional book that looks at people and their problems with a level of empathy I can only aspire to. And yes, Julie was my favorite too, just thinking about her makes me want to cry. Btw I didn't know the author mixed her patient's stories, I assumed she reproduced them with their consent ahah thank you for teaching me that

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Britonator t1_jegrjsu wrote

Please do report the listing as counterfeit! Counterfeits not only harm businesses financially, but they harm consumers as well!

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elwoodowd t1_jegrf9h wrote

Now and again, novels try to become literature. They get more and more 'literature', until they are unreadable.

At which point i think genres, are each clearly and obviously, a hormone. Western is one, romance is another. Mystery shall in this short reference remain undefined, as seems appropriate.

To be fair, this is an decade of mixed hormones, to mix my metaphors.

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farseer4 t1_jegquxb wrote

The problem is that this is not real life, but fiction. Therefore it would go however the writer wanted it to go.

In real life, they probably wouldn't be killing each other either way. Most people are gregarious, and they have an incentive to cooperate in order to procure food and shelter. (As long as there's enough food to be obtained, of course. Otherwise things will get ugly).

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swiftlyemo t1_jegpkcw wrote

-Nerve by Jeanne Ryan (also a movie with Dave Franco and Emma Roberts)

It’s about this anonymous online game to win money where you have to complete dares. She has a partner for it. But the dares keep getting more and more dangerous. And they have to decide how much they’re willing to risk their lives for the prize.

The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti

This girl, Lizzie, decides to look into the case of a popular girl that went missing in her town. Everyone thinks the boyfriend did it. But she gets a job at the place the girl worked at, befriends the boyfriend etc. it’s a coming of age story.

-What Kind of Girl by Alyssa Sheinmel

It’s about a girl in high school and her boyfriend hits her. She tells her principal about it and it basically follows the aftermath of everyone at school finding out. The people who believe her, the people who don’t, what the school and the town do and don’t do with the situation.

Those are the ones that came to mind. I don’t know if they’re at all what you’re interested in. I haven’t been reading YA too much lately but I tried haha

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HeySlimIJustDrankA5 t1_jegol60 wrote

I mean, if you REALLY want to get into semantics (especially the Greek ones), all genres falls into the category of “tragedy ” or “comedy”. Anything beyond that is based on a series of tropes that get associated with each other over time. I think it’s possible but I wouldn’t go looking for its name before I have its number.

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