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It’s a day when blogger participants post pictures of their shelves and the community high-fives each other because books.
[Awards/Tags] — The Dim Sum Book Tag
Miscellaneous: Awards/Tags is the tagline to store random posts that don’t really belong elsewhere. They may involve tags, awards, challenges, and other book blogging nonsense.
Awards/Tags
The Dim Sum Book Tag
The Dim Sum Book Tag is the brainchild of Joey @ Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Jenna @ Reading With Jenna. Dim sum is a style of Chinese cuisine whereby food is served in small (tapas-like) portions and is common during yum cha (which literally means: drinking tea). This tag is inspired by good company and good eats.
Here are some rules to devour this tag:
- Thank the blogger who nominated you, linking back to their site
- Devour dim sum and answer the tag questions
- Tag five others to join your round table for some dim sum fun
- Food coma
(If you could link back to this or Jenna’s post, I’d love to compile a list of taggers who completed it!)
People who’ve devoured dim sum:
Ashley @ Socially Awkward Bookworm
Deanna @ A Novel Glimpse
Aimal @ Bookshelves & Paperbacks
Cristina @ My Tiny Obsession
Kat @ The Impossible Girl Blog
Calliope @ Calliope the Book Goddess
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[Review] The Rest of Us Just Live Here — Patrick Ness
Book Title The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Author: Patrick Ness
Number of pages: 352
Synopsis:
What if you aren’t the Chosen One?
The one who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death?
What if you’re like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.
Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.
Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions.
(re: Goodreads @ The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness)
Should this book be picked up? the tl;dr review:
– Two overlapping narratives: 1) a story of your standard YA hero trying to save the world; 2) a story about the background noise simply living their lives (e.g. school/work)
– Nothing really special to note of the setting. There may be holes in the fantasy “world building” but it’s not of importance to the character-driven nature of the story
– Diversity in ensemble with character struggles that feel incredibly real (concerning LGBTQIA, mental illnesses, eating disorders, family issues, etc.)
– Highly quotable. If you enjoy Ness on Twitter, you’ll enjoy parts of the dialogue for sure
Initial Thoughts
I will not let Nessochism take over this review…but oh my god it hurt to rate this book.
Disclaimer: The copy I read was an ARC given to me by Amanda @ Brains Books and Brawn that she received from an Indigo Teen giveaway.
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