This Is Not A Book: Keri Smith

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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 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. Book review: “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” Las hay de acción, como sostener el cuaderno lo máximo posible y sujetarlo por con las partes anatómicas que te pide, otras que hacen que desarrolles por escrito cosas muy personales ( una de las parte que más me gustan), como la actividad de ‘ la maquina del tiempo’ en dónde te piden ciertos retazos de tu vida y memorias quizá olvidadas, ‘ Un lugar imaginario’ dónde has de dibujar y explicar tu mundo ideal y su sistema, ‘ esto es un universo paralelo’ en el que has de explicar tu mundo actual pero a la inversa, o sea todo lo contrario, ‘ esto es un sistema’ dónde encadenarás palabras de manera muy curiosa o ‘ Esto es un recuerdo’ en el que tendrás que exponer a modo de lista tu paso y tu huella en el planeta. Además, hay de tipo experimento como: ‘ privación sensorial’( ira a ciegas por la casa, muy divertido) o ‘ Esto es un generador de ideas’(te invitan a combinar cosas y acciones dentro de distinto apartados cotidianos para una conseguir una idea de un producto o concepto; ‘ brainstorm’). Now, you know I'm a huge fan girl when it comes to Melina Marchetta, especially because I can't help but fall in love with every single character she brings to life. In this book, Courtney Summers manages to create flawed characters I adore. Though it was anything but evident at first, because I have a thing : I don't usually love depressive characters. Yeah, you got it, the key word here is usually. Indeed Sloane is all kind of depressing - she actually wants to die - and yet she managed to move me like crazy. How did she do this? How? I'm not sure I can't even explain.

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Still, claims to the contrary, Keri Smith's text is a book, albeit not a very good one. It's really a simplistic collection of activities.I don't particular like first person narrative but this? This was the kind that I adore: simple yet eloquent. I could read and read more of this without getting bored. FROM A BOOK REVIEW BY DOROTHY PARKER: “This is not a novel to be thrown aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” Kellie also has experience working in the publishing industry in Australia, in both editorial and sales roles (for Pan Macmillan Australia and Hardie Grant Gift). Plus, she has worked in multiple bookshops during her career. 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. This Is Not a Book is a fun idea full of questions, tasks and challenges that will ensure every copy of This Is Not a Book is unique by the time you've finished it.

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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

i don't think i was told how gut-wrenching this book would be. so i have to tell you. you will cry. or come very close to it. This book kind of felt like The Breakfast Club meets the zombie apocalypse. It focuses so much more on human relationships as opposed to the apocalypse itself, and it was refreshing. I love the way it implies that zombies aren't always the biggest threat (because Sloane's abusive Father is more scary than any zombie could ever be.) I feel like this is a very realistic take on how teenagers would handle themselves in a zombie apocalypse; all very frantic and unsure of what to do and afraid to kill zombies and people. It's not like you just suddenly become okay with killing zombies just because you're in an apocalypse, and those zombies were people once too.

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it's a strange dynamic, but each character brings something different to the group. and as they spend longer together - as much as they begin to look out for one another and become a family of sorts, there is this immense will to live and find their loved ones. and sometimes the want for family and love overtakes all rational thinking and results in dangerous mistakes and decisions. Kellie’s first picture book, Cloud Conductor (Wombat Books), came out in 2018. Since then, she has written several more books – and has some new ones coming soon! – including Yes! No (Little Pink Dog Books), Evie Is All Ears (Little Pink Dog Books), and How Do You Love?: The Five Ways We Show We Care (Feiwel & Friends, Macmillan US). 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.”I owe a huge thanks to Courtney Summers for giving me a second chance to read and review this after my netgalley rejection. It made my day and I'm so glad This Is Not a Test was all that I'd hoped it would be. This is the second book I've read by Courtney Summers and I wasn't dissapointed. Her first book I read was a realisitic contemporary about rape and bullying and this book is totally different from that. I also didn't find myself invested in any characters beyond Sloane. Again, this could've been helped by a longer multi-pov story. Feeling invested in only one main isn't the right scope for a horror story. I turn my face away from him. He's right. Who cares. Maybe I'm infected. I try to listen to what's happening inside me. If there's any part of me that's dying and becoming more rotten but more purposeful than what I am now.