Soo I've got a Kindle and went to check out this month's Prime reads - my eyeballs thrilled when I read the summary of this short story by Jia Tolentino:
>With the pandemic looming, a listless social media editor accepts a job working for her former college friend Seraphina. A popular Instagram influencer, the subject of obsessive message-board surveillance, and a newly minted Karen of the Day, Seraphina is living out 2020 in the luxury of her “ultimate self-quarantine.” As the year escalates into upheaval and chaos, both women try, in increasingly secretive and complicated ways, to maintain the upper hand.
I haven't read it yet so I'm not sure if the CC pastiche carries through to the story itself, but was tickled all the same - bb may finally be a muse!!! 🥺🧚♂️🌸
lol they threw her like 200 dollars for 250 words
jia is off maternity leave I guess, she published a book review and a "short story" as an amazon kindle single...? not two dollars for 27 pages...(ok looking at the others none are 30 or more pages, why?? I would feel embarrassed charging for less than 50 pages, this program is so weird and I think I've never seen it get any press attention or explanation)
Another multi generation series is by Howard Fast, starting with The Immigrants, Amazon link to the 6 book series
I haven’t read them personally but have heard good reviews.
Reads like Margaret Atwood drew inspiration from Mr Ceaușescu's policy for The Handmaid's Tale. Instead of regarding media as a warning, the GOP read Atwood and saw, in it, a blueprint for society.
Lawrence Sanders maybe? He does the pulp fiction crime thing really well. Also, Howard Fast if you like modern historical novels. He did a truly awesome series of books set in San Francisco in the early to mid 20th century, now referred to as the Lavette Family Saga, starting with the family patriarch and his partner on the day of the 1906 SF earthquake. I recently reread the full series after about 30 years and it was ust as good as I remembered!
3 Bridgerton books together in one bundle (books 4 to 6) are also on sale.
Hey, thanks for the reply!
Can you check this example: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Circus-Erin-Morgenstern-ebook/dp/B004J4WKTW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+night+circus&qid=1616404724&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
I'm using an example of a traditionally published book (The Night Circus) which has both kindle and hardcover versions (you can look at any other book, I think it would be the same). The link above is to the ebook, and there is no "also bought" section, but when you click on the hard cover, it quickly shows up. So maybe ebooks don't have that section?
The Color of Your Voice by Daniel Newwyn, 4.5/5 - So I just loved this love story. It was the strangest situation in which anyone has ever fallen in love. Young prostitute Violet Pham can see sound as colors, a blessing and a curse as she falls in love with violent prisoner Turner Nguyen. This love story is a bit tragic, but it’s also beautiful as it shows humanity in a very realistic way. Newwyn captures the subtle nuances of life, both beautiful and hideous, in his touching descriptions!
As much as I have come to like the two characters I wish that they had spent more time getting to know each other. The connection near the end when Violet visits Turner was enough to see they meant something to each other yet the stages they became close were short and not enough for me.
Yasssssssss! I recently read The Fortress by S.A. Jones. It's given me....ideas......
You might like The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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My book, The Colour of Your Voice, will be made free on Amazon for tomorrow (March 25th) only! Check out the synopsis below, and by all means, have a look if you like!
Synopsis:
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Violet Pham can see the colour of sounds. Ever since she knew it, everything she heard carried a shade. She spent hours pouring her pencil sketches on paper, glaring at the milky white rays in the air dangling around, wrapping the mossy green blobs emanating from her mother's voice.
Another thing she also knows is that she was born to become a painter. But her faith keeps getting tested by her classmates and mother. "You can't do anything right," they tell her. She begins to question herself. Once she does, there is only one solution: run away from everything.
That is when she meets Turner Nguyen.
Turner is everything Violet wishes she is: an iron will and a flint heart. There is only one thing wrong about him — he's a gangster, the scummy type. He barges into gang wars. He beats people up for money. He smuggles drugs.
Soon, they learn that a romance of two castaways is a recipe for disaster. Slowly, their lives take turns for the worse.
My book, The Colour of Your Voice, will be made free on Amazon for tomorrow (March 25th) only! Check out the synopsis below, and by all means, have a look if you like!
Synopsis:
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Violet Pham can see the colour of sounds. Ever since she knew it, everything she heard carried a shade. She spent hours pouring her pencil sketches on paper, glaring at the milky white rays in the air dangling around, wrapping the mossy green blobs emanating from her mother's voice.
Another thing she also knows is that she was born to become a painter. But her faith keeps getting tested by her classmates and mother. "You can't do anything right," they tell her. She begins to question herself. Once she does, there is only one solution: run away from everything.
That is when she meets Turner Nguyen.
Turner is everything Violet wishes she is: an iron will and a flint heart. There is only one thing wrong about him — he's a gangster, the scummy type. He barges into gang wars. He beats people up for money. He smuggles drugs.
Soon, they learn that a romance of two castaways is a recipe for disaster. Slowly, their lives take turns for the worse.
I read The Handmaid's Tale during the Bush years and partly because of that, it was one of the most chilling reading experiences of my life. I don't think I could stand to read it again just now, but for those who can, the kindle edition is now on sale for $2.99. https://www.amazon.com/Handmaids-Tale-Margaret-Atwood-ebook/dp/B003JFJHTS/