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Don't Read the Comments

2020-01-28 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2020-01-28
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 560/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Don't Read the Comments by : Eric Smith

Download or read book Don't Read the Comments written by Eric Smith. This book was released on 2020-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderfully geeky and deeply compassionate." —Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times bestselling author In this charming novel by Eric Smith, two teen gamers find their virtual worlds—and blossoming romance—invaded by the real-world issues of trolling and doxing in the gaming community. We all need a place to escape the real world. For Divya and Aaron, it’s the world of online gaming. While Divya trades her rising-star status for sponsorships to help her struggling single mom pay rent, Aaron plays as a way to fuel his own dreams of becoming a game developer—and as a way to disappear when his mom starts talking about medical school. After a chance online meeting, the pair decides to team up. But they soon find themselves the targets of a group of internet trolls, who begin launching a real-world doxxing campaign, threatening Aaron’s dream and Divya’s actual life. They think they can drive her out of the game, but Divya’s whole world is on the line… And she isn’t going down without a fight. Looking for more from Eric Smith? Don't miss You Can Go Your Own Way!

You Can Go Your Own Way

2021-11-02 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2021-11-02
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 875/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis You Can Go Your Own Way by : Eric Smith

Download or read book You Can Go Your Own Way written by Eric Smith. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sweetly charming love story that leaves the reader with a lasting sense of hope.” —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star "The perfect novel to snuggle up with.” —Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read A heartwarming and thoughtful enemies-to-lovers rom-com about two teens—one trying to save his family's failing pinball arcade, the other working for her tech genius dad who wants to take it over—who get trapped together in a snowstorm. Adam Stillwater is in over his head. But the pinball arcade is the only piece of his dad that Adam has left, and he’s determined to protect it from Philadelphia’s newest tech mogul, who wants to turn it into another one of his cold, lifeless gaming cafés. Whitney Mitchell doesn’t know how she got here. Her parents split up. Her boyfriend dumped her. And now she’s spending her senior year running social media for her dad’s chain of super successful gaming cafés—which mostly consists of trading insults with that decrepit old pinball arcade across town. But when a huge snowstorm hits, Adam and Whitney find themselves trapped inside the arcade. Cut off from their families, their worlds, and their responsibilities, the tension between them seems to melt away, leaving something else in its place. But what happens when the storm ends?

Reading the Comments

2015-05-01 Computers
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Release : 2015-05-01
Genre : Computers
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Book Rating : 887/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reading the Comments by : Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.

Download or read book Reading the Comments written by Joseph M. Reagle, Jr.. This book was released on 2015-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we can learn about human nature from the informative, manipulative, confusing, and amusing messages at the bottom of the web. Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In this book, Joseph Reagle urges us to read the comments. Conversations “on the bottom half of the Internet,” he argues, can tell us much about human nature and social behavior. Reagle visits communities of Amazon reviewers, fan fiction authors, online learners, scammers, freethinkers, and mean kids. He shows how comment can inform us (through reviews), improve us (through feedback), manipulate us (through fakery), alienate us (through hate), shape us (through social comparison), and perplex us. He finds pre-Internet historical antecedents of online comment in Michelin stars, professional criticism, and the wisdom of crowds. He discusses the techniques of online fakery (distinguishing makers, fakers, and takers), describes the emotional work of receiving and giving feedback, and examines the culture of trolls and haters, bullying, and misogyny. He considers the way comment—a nonstop stream of social quantification and ranking—affects our self-esteem and well-being. And he examines how comment is puzzling—short and asynchronous, these messages can be slap-dash, confusing, amusing, revealing, and weird, shedding context in their passage through the Internet, prompting readers to comment in turn, “WTF?!?”

A Sister’s Courage (The Victory Sisters, Book 1)

2019-11-28 Fiction
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Release : 2019-11-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 436/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Sister’s Courage (The Victory Sisters, Book 1) by : Molly Green

Download or read book A Sister’s Courage (The Victory Sisters, Book 1) written by Molly Green. This book was released on 2019-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Meticulously researched and brings into focus the sterling work of the women of the ATA ... An engrossing story, with a strong, likeable female protagonist facing issues we still face today.’ Historical Novel Society magazine In the midst of war, she knew her place was not at home...

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

2010-08-10 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2010-08-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 148/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by : Pierre Bayard

Download or read book How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read written by Pierre Bayard. This book was released on 2010-08-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.

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