This Is Not A Book: Keri Smith

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Okay, I get the point: The reader brings her own experiences, etc. to a text to create, well, whatever she wants. OMG WHEN HE [blank]. OMG I can’t even deal with this book now. I’ve actually had to stop reading for the night to calm down. 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?

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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. 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. I absolutely loved this book. I read it in one sitting, and only had one complaint. I wish we would have seen a little more of the intensity like the first and last chapters throughout the book. I knew that at any point zombies could get into the building, but I never really felt scared for the characters while they were in the school. I also knew that at any point Sloane could be simply bitten once to end her life, but again I never felt like that would happen. Those are just my feelings, though, and I could easily see this book being a solid 5-star book for many other readers. 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.

There's something so desperate in her way to handle all the crazy stuff that happens constantly and yet she's never ever whining. Not a single time - I often found myself in awe of her perseverance, as I think there's some braveness to show such motivation, even if it's to die at some point. Did I find it stupid? Of course I did. I have a thing against suicide, I can't deny it, that's totally personal and I can't help it - it often obscures my judgment about characters like her, because not only suicide makes me sad, but it piss me off. But Sloane won me. Completely. I took her with all her flaws and wanted just one thing : to read about her. Miller furnishes a hundred more laughs in the endorsement of “To You I Tell It.” He wrote the recommendations himself under the heading: 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. the thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens.they also don't tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour it's like there's nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or you'd be crushed under the weight of it. they don't tell you how you will float through days. you autopilot, here but not really here, sleepwalking, and then every so often you are awake.

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From a book review: “It is not a book to be lightly thrown aside. It should be thrown with great force.”— Los Angeles Mirror-News.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.

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This was not a zombie book. This was NOT a zombie book. THIS WAS NOT A ZOMBIE BOOK. And I'm still sort of pissed at that. Sloane, a physically and emotionally abused girl, finds herself barricaded inside her high school along with five other students. While they know each other, they aren't friends. They came together because they were the only ones who weren't infected in a town overrun by zombies. The only signal they get on the radio is a recorded message informing them that "This is not a test." The school seems secure, the perfect place for a group struggling to survive. The difference between Sloan and everyone else is that she doesn't care to survive -- and hasn't since before the first zombie appeared. she grows so much as a character, and it is painful and sad and you just want to be there with her, holding her throughout it all. not that she'd let you. Once again, I really must apologize for this review. I have sat down at my computer at least a dozen times over the past few days and agonized over how to write this and I still don’t know. There is so much I can say about this book and even if it isn’t a spoiler, I fear it will ruin the experience. Summers really should coin the term “a gripping read” as This is Not a Test is impossible to tear your eyes away from. I have never read a narration quite like Sloane’s before and much like a horror film that you know will scar you, Sloane’s voice is impossible to turn away from even though you know it will linger with you forever. I honestly feel as if there is a part of Sloane – her confusion, betrayal, anger, pain, despair – within me forever. In my opinion, that is the true mark of a phenomenal writer.

Sé que el objetivo de este libro es que te lo cargues y tal pero nunca he tenido huevos para hacer lo que me pedía en las páginas. Una amiga hizo todo lo que le pedían las páginas, hizo algo relacionado con comida y se le llenó la estantería de bichos. A mí no me motiva tener un libro lleno de guarrerías al lado de libros que cuido y tal pero bueno, que si lo usas para desfogarte y luego piensas tirarlo supongo que está bien. We'll make movies about it, hundreds of movies, and in every one of them, we'll be the heroes and the love interests and best friends and winners and we'll watch these movies until we are so far removed from our own history, we'll forget how it really felt to be here. This must be what Dorothy felt like, I think. Maybe. If Dorothy was six scared teenagers and Oz was hell."

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A surprise midlife obsession with British actor Benedict Cumberbatch provides the occasion for musings on passion, aging, and identity in this spirited debut…Carvan’s self-aware approach wrings the absurdity out of her story to hilarious effect while touching on the realities of motherhood and fandom: “It’s not just about what we love, but how that love figures in our lives, and how it makes us feel.” The result is a weird-in-the-best-way account of self-discovery that brims with humor and insight.”– Publishers Weekly, starred review Each character has his choices to make, and what can I say? That's real, that's painful, that made me feel : I can't not love it. Also, it is worth noting, I have always said that zombies do not scare me at all. When watching horror films, if zombies manage to get any kind of reaction from me it's usually amusement at their silly moans. But this was one hell of a creepy novel. I'm not sure why this book managed to give me chills when so many others failed, but I admit it, I was freaked out, and not always at the zombies.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.