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The Let Them Theory

This book is proof that your viral post does not automatically qualify you as an author. I would even venture that publishing houses should not jump on that kind of bandwagon, but virality=money and money is king.

The creator of this revolutionary “theory” is super nosy and a control freak. One day, as she tries to meddle for the umpteenth time in other people’s business, she is forced to realize that she doesn’t have to be either, and now she’s convinced she’s the first human ever to make that discovery. To top it all, apparently the whole concept of this book—which is 95% fluff; you can absolutely notice the urge to reach a word quota—is plagiarism, ripping off from a (you guessed it—viral!) poem.

I need to step away from the “new arrivals” section on my library app for a while.

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Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

I stumbled upon this book by sheer chance, without the faintest idea of what to expect from it. I thought I might just leaf through the first few pages and then maybe leave it unattended like so many other books on my reading pile. However, once I opened it, there was no putting it down. I ended up devouring it on the spot. It reads like very gripping fiction—it’s hard to believe it all really happened! There’s even graphic evidence to support it. Amazing, disgusting, disheartening. Very exciting to read, though.