This Is Not A Book: Keri Smith

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Sloane Price is one of those survivors. By sheer accident, she's fallen in with a group of five students who make it to the high school. 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. This story is about Sloane, and the journey she takes, and the decisions she makes. She has the perfect weapon to kill herself, just walk outside and she'll be bitten. So why doesn't she do it? Or does she? Some people don't ever wake up, maybe this is Sloane and maybe not. Sloane was our main character. She lived alone with her father after her sister abandoned left, and he has became even more abusive than before-and it was all centered on her. When her sister left her, she lost the will to live, the need to fight, the gumption to go on. But after the zombie virus begins, she stumbles across 'friends' from school who grab her and bring her with them in their mad dash to survive. This went against all her plans to just lay down and let the zombies have her. This went against her suicide plan. This went against everything she had planned....and so did he.

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Underneath the death and the zombies and the lives, there’s a veneer of fake to it all. The book didn’t feel alive to me, like it should. Maybe that’s just me, because everybody’s given this five stars, but I just don’t get it. I really wanted to, but I didn’t. Okay, I get the point: The reader brings her own experiences, etc. to a text to create, well, whatever she wants. This is not a book about battles, this is a book about survival and all we're ready to do to survive. 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. If this is not an app, then what is it? With This Is Not an App, you’ll transform your tablet or phone into a place to stash secrets, a way to procrastinate, a spot to record dreams and memories, a living picture frame, a souvenir of the world, and more. Discover a world of possibility right at your fingertips, using fun drawing tools and over 50 ideas to inspire your creative process.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. He hesitates and then he brings his hand to the crook of my elbow. He presses his lips against the side of my mouth and my heart recoils because for all its gentleness, it hurts.

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On the one hand, I just want to praise it, recommend it, tell you it's amazing and give it 5 stars. This has been said a few times, but it's certainly worth repeating. This is not really a zombie book. Although it has zombies in it, they are just the constant threat in the book, and they are minimally shown. The gore is quite minimal, too. This is just a warning for others, like myself, who aren't really into gory books, because I wouldn't want anyone to not read this book just because of that. Of course that can go both ways, however, and a zombie fan looking for an all out gore-fest may be disappointed. I have this basic concept about how any story that has to do with zombies is old and funny. Sorry I don’t watch Walking Dead. There comes a time in everyone's life when we finally "wake up" and figure out that we don't need to be a product of our screwed up past. For some, it takes months, for other's it takes years (I should know). If you don't come to this realization, there are consequences... for some drugs, for others..suicide, or other forms of escape.

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The plot starts a little slow as it establishes the major characters and their specific roles in putting across the themes of the story. Every character represents the obvious but very convincing possibilities of human nature when faced with existential crisis. The heated dialogues, the impossible choices they had to make, the way they had to live which can be barely called living, the urge to do and feel things they think they might never be able to tomorrow, holding out waiting for nothing because nothing happens. It all felt real and made this a very gripping and powerful story and you find yourself immersed in their grim situation. Well,” insisted my great-grandfather, “don’t you want a nice heavy book to throw at the dog now and then?” there are people who believe that trauma builds character. these people have probably never experienced trauma. trauma does not build character, but how someone responds to trauma is the true and most telling test of character. In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of a “book”, Keri Smith offers an illustrated guide that challenges 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:

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If it walks like a book, is bound like a book, has writing in it like a book, is shelved like a book, it must be a book--despite the title to the contrary.

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But I am now completely eradicating that concept from my mind because of this dark but masterfully written prose. I apologize. This is a lot of ranting. The point is, I was bored to tears most of the time and the only reason why I finish stuff like this is because I want another notch on my books read in 2012 badge. And further original mysteries are evoked from topological wonders such as the Hypercard, the Trapdoor Card and some amazing origami folds.

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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 . . . I think people who go into this book expecting it to be a zombook (“ Braaaaains”) will be incredibly disappointed.The real subject of [this] wonderfully fresh [take] on fandom is the unabashed, self-aware embrace of joy…[Carvan] considers the way we treat women who feel deeply: ‘When a lot of women love anything, that’s all we need to know about it.’ Subversively important stuff.”– Chicago Tribune Thus, Bill Miller gave credit to Frank Dolan for the quip under examination, but QI believes this was a deliberate misattribution intended to be funny. Miller deserves credit for originating this remark. try to heed my warning when i tell you that you may walk away from this book with a heavy heart and tears in your eyes. but hopefully glad that you went with your gut and give it a go.