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2015, meme, top ten tuesday

[Top Ten Tuesday] – #85 – Authors Discovered and Read in 2015

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

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This Week’s Theme:
Authors Discovered and Read in 2015

Initial Thoughts:

I’m kind of torn to write this list as the year isn’t over. I feel like I will discover at least three new-to-me authors within the next few weeks if I manage to tackle my “immediate immediate” TBR (which I won’t name because they’re bound to be changed on the whim).

Although some authors listed below were known before 2015, it wasn’t until this year that I actually got to reading their stuff–that’s the benchmark I’m going with.

All images and book titles link to their respective Goodreads.

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2016, ARC review, Book Review

[Review] This Is Where It Ends — Marieke Nijkamp

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Book Title                  This Is Where It Ends
Author:                        Marieke Nijkamp
Number of pages:  292

Synopsis:

this is where it ends - marieke nijkamp - book cover10:00 a.m.: The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.

10:02 a.m.: The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.

10:03 a.m.: The auditorium doors won’t open.

10:05 a.m.: Someone starts shooting.

Told over the span of 54 harrowing minutes from four different perspectives, terror reigns as one student’s calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.

(re: Goodreads @ This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp)

Should this book be picked up? the tl;dr review:

– A timely novel giving life to social circles shared by school shooters. However, the shooter isn’t given a voice
– Multi POV narrative; uses twitter, blog posts, flashblacks
– Set in Alabama and raises questions per the demographics and the representation of diverse inclusion of the physically disabled, LGBTQIA+, cultural (Spanish, Middle Eastern), mentally ill
– Some scenes overdramatized with cinematic flair
– Lacking motivation for the shooter and doesn’t really provide solid reasons as to why

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Initial Thoughts

This book join the ranks of most underwhelming titles I’ve read in 2015 (release is in 2016). Cover’s great, though.

Full disclosure: I received an e-ARC of This Is Where It Ends from Netgalley. I extend thanks to SourceBooks Fire for providing me the opportunity to review this book. 

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2015, blog awards & tags, Miscellaneous

[Awards/Tags] — Around The World in YA Tag

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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.

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Awards/Tags
Around The World in YA Tag

This tag was created by Becca @ Becca and Books with the purpose of listing a country and then listing a favourite book of yours that takes place in that country. For me, I think I’ll have to do the reverse where I choose books specifically for their country (because it’s easier that way).

…and some of these aren’t YA BUT WHO’S CHECKING?

I was tagged by Deanna @ A Novel Glimpse!

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