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Probably very good, but not my cup of tea

Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman

May 7, 2019 by crystalclear 1 Comment

The only reason I read this is because of a coworker.  She was super into it, and wanted our department to read it as a mini book club.  So I picked it up, and I could tell it wasn’t my preferred reading genre. This is realistic fiction, and it’s a little too real for me.  And depressing. And I was reading this while listening to The Book Thief, and that was waaaaay too much depressing at once.     The basic premise is that Colorado […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr11, DNF, dry, jarrod shusterman, Neal Shusterman, Realistic fiction, YA

crystalclear's CBR11 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr11, DNF, dry, jarrod shusterman, Neal Shusterman, Realistic fiction, YA ·
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This book made me thirsty.

November 12, 2018 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

I read a lot of dystopian fiction. I have read about the super flu, zombies, the earth’s rotation slowing down, nuclear wastelands, and government created vampires. This was my first foray into dystopia via climate change fiction, and parts of it were terrifying. The part that scares me the most in these dystopias are the scenes on the crowded highways. Where are you supposed to go if you can’t get there? These scenes scared me in The Stand and in World War Z — something […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, #CoverArt, cbr10bingo, cover art, dry, jarrod shusterman, Neal Shusterman, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR10 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, #CoverArt, cbr10bingo, cover art, dry, jarrod shusterman, Neal Shusterman, Scootsa1000 ·
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