This Is Not A Book: Keri Smith

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There are 'Breakfast Club' moments where the teens bond as they linger in the school, hoping for rescue, but the infighting is wearing them down. One of the underlying themes is the loss of family, their coping, and whether or not the survivors create their own. Grace's twin, Trace, blames one of the others for the death of their parents. Grace starts to represent the lost Lily to Sloane, and watching Grace and her brother interact resurrects the ghost of the relationship she had with Lily. Sloane is clearly conflicted between her safe lassitude and the emotions of loss and anger threatening to leak out. Tension starts going LotF direction when another survivor joins the group. I felt the book took a more negative quality turn with the contrivance of the text message. At athat point, it's clear frantic emotion will win out over logic. And I have to say that I felt the ending too ambiguous for my tastes. It's fine to set up the plot but just please stop going on and on and on and on and on and onnnnnn about it. And not only that, but all conversations from all the characters felt repetitive. The same shit kept coming up. "You killed our parents." "No I didn't." "Your fault." "No." "But it is your fault!" "It's not!" Over and over. Just stopppppp. Everyone was just so stupid and one dimensional.

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Look, I'm not saying she's going to die. In fact, I'm not saying anything - she's a believable character you know, so she can evolve. Or not. Yep, I'm totally a tease. In depicting her vision of the zombie apocalypse, Summers uses restraint to masterful effect. The horror of the undead is rendered more powerful by the suggestion of their presence, like the sound of them hammering against doors in their hunger, as opposed to always placing them in the limelight. Similarly, by barricading six teenagers into a school, it’s the constant fear of a breach that stretches the nerves to breaking point, rather than an endless gore-fest. Which is not to say that This Is Not A Test doesn’t contain disturbing images of violence or pay homage to the genre of zombie horror – it does – but the effectiveness is amplified by the enormous amount of tension that has been wound up in the plot. is this what it's like to get close to other people - you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to? But I am now completely eradicating that concept from my mind because of this dark but masterfully written prose. PS : I thought I wasn't scared and in the end, it seems that the sensation of being threatened grew on me without realizing it. Yes, I totally freaked out when I got out to let my dog pee. Poor me.This Is Not a Test reminded me of Lord of the Flies meets The Walking Dead -- the first season when you're actually cheering for the humans and not the zombies -- with a dash of The Breakfast Club. Not only was this my first Courtney Summers book, this was also my first zombie book. Verdict? I'd like more of both please.

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This book changed my life. I was quite depressed, and bought 'This Is Not A Book' on a whim - but I started carrying it with me everywhere I went, and bought pretty much everything Keri Smith has ever release straight after falling in love with it. Frank Dolan, New York— Not a book to be lightly thrown aside. It should be thrown with great force. When I saw ALLLLLLL of my friends reading All the Rage recently I figured I would end up reading it wrong (see Exhibit A) and opted for Summers’ version of zombies instead . . .In The Treasure Hunt a woman makes a dream-journey to foreign lands that eventually leads her to just the right message to discover an elusive treasure. if nothing else, read the first chapter, which is a triumph of buildup and utter utter chaos. i cannot remember ever reading a better opening chapter in all my days. The writing skillfully captures both social and inner conflict. Sloane's dissociation is shown through sparse descriptions and simply constructed sentences. A] funny, honest memoir about shame and loving the things we love…[Carvan] explores her thoughts on finding a new passion, why we feel embarrassed about loving some things, and how we need to break out of our shame and grab on to the things we enjoy for dear life.”– BookRiot

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It was so easy," he said. "Just physically ... doing that. When it was over, I thought ... people ... we aren't made of anything. That's how easy it was." The summary sounded good. Six teens trapped in a school during a zombie crisis slowly go nuts on each other. The book did not deliver. What I was imagining from the summary was some sort of manhunt dog-eat-dog Lord of the Flies style breaking down of these trapped teenagers, where basic survival instincts would drive them into some crazy game of hide and seek trying to kill each other. In essence, the group of survivors themselves would be a more dangerous enemy to each other than any zombie could be. However, I was ultimately unsatisfied. I didn’t really connect to the characters. I was curious about what would go down, but not affected by any of it. I felt very disconnected to Sloane, who is disconnected to herself in many ways. Sloane is just as messed up (if not more) than any other of summers protagonists: abused, broken, closed-up, suicidal, distanced from other characters. This story has a lot going on for how short it is, but it never feels cluttered. We know that Sloane was abandoned by her sister, Lily, but the details of what was supposed to happen and how that has affected her come out slowly throughout the book. The main focus of this book is each person's will to live. Lily was all Sloane had left so once she left her she has none. Sloane wants desperately to just die. I thought the author wrote this very well. We can feel Sloane's desperation and hopelessness, but she never seems emo. i am caked in mud and my hair is straggly and knotted from the rain. my lips are bruised. there are cuts and scratches on me that i must have gotten since leaving the school but i don't remember how. she won't recognize me when she sees me. i look like someone who has survived.I didn't find it had a breakfast club vibe at all: to me, that implies misfits ultimately banding together. Which didn't happen. Tensions ran high and then they ran higher. I've split this into two sections, one for each strong aspect of the book. Let me know if you prefer this or my normal style!! This small boy is in denial. Although this is not a book he takes readers through amazing adventures. Entertaining and energetic illustrations” In Countermanded someone receives a chilling message from the spirit world, and the unexpected ability to find humor in it. We'll become reanimated corpses navigating a sorry imitation of our glory days and this is why I don't understand the point in going on, why it's so wrong to give up. There's nothing left."

This Is Not a Book by Keri Smith: 9780399535215

I was a bit apprehensive starting this since I'm not a zombie genre fan. So this book was meant for me in the sense it didn't focus on the zombie action that much. Oh there were many action scenes, and those were also really well done. In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of “a book,” Keri Smith offers an illustrated guide that asks readers to creatively examine all the different ways This Is Not a Book can be used. With intriguing prompts, readers will discover that the book can be: I am so sad it makes me heavier than the sum of my parts. I shift, restless, but it doesn't help. It's like-time. All this time in here is on me, has its hooks in me. Maybe if I sleep more, I'll wake up and I'll feel different, but I can't. The storm is really happening now and it makes the room feel emptier. Makes me feel emptier. Started in April 2019. Thoughts at the beginning are less relevant, so you may want to scroll towards the end of my review.... In all, This Is Not a Book guides the reader through a world of more than thirty excursions into wonder, surprise and mystery, with full presentations designed for close-up magicians and motivational speakers not afraid of mixing some meaning with their magic and entertainment. This is not a book-it is a blossoming of wonder and new places to find it.one character mourns his life, and how with nothing left in the world, his opportunities to become something have pretty much ended.