I live you as if death had already separated us. So intense is my longing for you.
A Breath of Life, by Clarice Lispector
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Evil twin, look in the mirror.
Mr. Soul says is back. He has a deal for you.
Remind me who I was, who I will be.
You can’t change the reading.
Write again. Just for you this time.
SPoL
0Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?
Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
0If you didn’t have various adults in your life make you feel less than for reading all the time you don’t get to talk about books at all
1Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction
Rating: ★★★★★
Summary: A program known as Death-Cast knows the day of your death and gives you a call urging you to live life to the fullest on that very day. Mateo and Rufus both receive their calls shortly after midnight in September. Both boys happen upon an app known as Last Friend that’s been designed specifically for those expecting death within the next 24 hours to give them one “last friend” to spend their day with. Mateo and Rufus match with one another and decide that they’re going to really live their last day together to get an adventure of a lifetime in just under 24 hours.
Review:
I loved this book and I mean that from the bottom of my now-broken heart. I became captivated by Mateo and Rufus and their dynamic together almost instantly. Their personalities are so different from one another and they have one last day to really break out of their comfort zones. The adventure shows how beautiful life can be and shows how the right person can make all the difference in breaking you out of your shell to find a side of yourself you never thought was there.
I gave this book 5 stars but I have one complaint. Silvera writes from different character perspectives per chapter. Mostly, it bounces between Mateo and Rufus. I loved seeing each of their different views on life. Mateo and Rufus aren’t the only ones with chapters dedicated to their story. Some (not all) of the other chapters came from people who had no significance to the Mateo-Rufus adventure. I get what Silvera was going for; the boys are living in a world that’s just as affected by Death-Cast as they are and everyone has their own experience. However, I found myself hoping those “extra” chapters were short and sweet so I could get back to how Mateo and Rufus were doing.
Adam Silvera has a gift with captivating readers and making them attached to the characters they are reading about. This story hit me hard in the end and I didn’t even realize how impacted I was until I shed a tear and closed the book.
0Hello!
I read Coraline last night. It’s a fun story, and it’s written well, too.
First thing I’ve read in who-knows how long, and I regret nothing.
The best part is that my sister read it, too, so we had something to talk about!
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“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploration
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time”
- T. S. Eliot
7The existential crisis of knowing you won’t be able to read all the books you want before you die.
15“No highly creative person is ever satisfied with what he has done. Often indeed, after completing a project, he experiences a period of depression from which he is only relieved by embarking on the next piece of work.” ~ A. Storr
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I finished this book today. It was…interesting. Not my favorite but definitely and interesting read. It was written in the 1970s, this shows in the misogyny portrayed through out the story and the occasional racial terminology. The story follows Billy, a man in his early 20s who gets a high off of racing illegal mothers (gas powered cars) on America’s highways. He’s part of the Spoilers caravan clan. The highways are filled with these clans that never stop moving. The main rule of life is to never fall below 40 mph otherwise you die. Terrifying, right?? The image I conjured in my mind of these caravan clans is basically the white trash/rednecks of America. Instead of living in trailer parks they lived on the highways in non-stop vans. Billy is volatile, moody when he doesn’t get his way, uncommunicative with his wife (who is also a terribly selfish character in her own way). It’s like all these characters had the emotional maturity of a 5 year old. As the story progresses you begin to realize that there is something fishy about the never stopping rule. Billy’s whole life he had thought it was a myth, an old wives tale. But after an attempt to pull off to find medical help, he realizes that is no longer the case. So he ventures on to figure out why.
While this book was odd, I felt like it captured a great vision of what the author saw as a dystopian world. All dystopian world books are weird, that’s what makes them great. It’s a fast read, short book. It pulls you in with the old language and strange words. 3/5
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Hey guys! Long time no see. I finally decided to come back here and actually post some more. School is done over here, but this summer holiday will be (and already is) really productive, because I’m graduating high school after this year, so I have to keep preparing for my meds school exams, in order to get in. I will post a summer to do list really soon, so stay tuned.
Today I’ve completed a whole chapter for chemistry and I had a chemistry lesson with a teacher (and apparently I’ll have a session tomorrow too, so I had homework to complete for that as well).
Except for that I relaxed watching real life crime investigations so yeah 😂
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