This Is Not A Book: Keri Smith

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Remember that feeling you had as a kid, when you loved things wholeheartedly, boldly, and loudly? If you feel a sense that there is something missing from your life, some gap between who you are on the inside and who you are on the outside, then this is the book for you.”–Eve Rodsky, author of Find Your Unicorn Space and Fair Play This is not a book where the zombies scare you, this is a book where the characters make you think.

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Why We Can’t Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman’s midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be.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. 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. So maybe I'm prejudiced against these books because they're sold at Urban Outfitters or the Barnes and Noble gift section, and they're as much toy as book. how absolutely shattering to realize, at fifteen, that your life has meant nothing and is essentially over. GAH!

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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. 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. 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. I had a hard time liking the characters. These were all high school kids, hiding out in a high school, still playing high school games. I kept waiting for them to toughen up, to harden from what has happened to them, but it just didn't happen. Plus? The zombie action was quite minimal for my liking.

Caravan is a talented writer who is able to weave together words in a way that lifts you up, makes you embrace who you are, and grabs a hold of your soul, reminding you that life is worth living and not existing through. She reminds you that joy is not a dirty word, it’s something that we should take in as easily as the air we breathe…Introspective and poignant…Written with such humor, strength, and delight.”– Fangirlish I was warned that the story was more about the inner workings of the characters, which didn't bother me at the time. I like reading books in which people have to battle their own inner demons. In that aspect, the story was well-crafted. But a zombie book? I really don't think that it was. And something about that fact really frustrated me. The writing style is intended to be reasonably fast-paced. The main character (if they are one!) investigates who they are and their place in their increasingly mayhem-filled and changing world. The illustrations help bring the continuing developments and action of the story to life, highlighting the fact that both the character and reader aren’t ever quite sure what’s “real”. This is a story designed to have children investigate and analyse. I’m much better now, in fact, than I was when we started. I wish you could have heard that pretty crash “Beauty and the Beast” made when, with one sweeping, liquid gesture, I tossed it out of my twelfth-story window. 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.

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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. For anyone looking to do the same, I would say that "This Is Not A Book" is a good use of time. Equipped with scissors, tape or glue, a ruler and a pencil, you will find hundreds of way to make this book into a personal keep sake that you won't want to get rid of after you've started working on it. 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. I could not, in all honesty, condemn or praise a character at any given moment in the story, their actions being far from predictable and absolutely not meant to make me either cheer or despise them.

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. 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! is the perfect introduction for kids to how a book is structured and how to tell a good story. the anger and cussing never seems over the top and forced, the more sexual scenes were done so well, giving us readers what felt right. i think the author probably pushed a bit more than what i've read in other YA books but guys you have no idea how great it felt to finally read a book where the author pushed the line a little. it fit so perfectly with the book and the characters, that i thanked her countless times for just going for it and not giving a shit what others would say.