Showing posts with label Rae Mariz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rae Mariz. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2023

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #604, January 2nd

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #603
Teaser Tuesday #611
WWW Wednesday #611
WOW #607
Will the Time Come #604
Third Sentence Thursday #594
Random Reads #580
First Lines Friday #607
Book Blogger Hop #273
Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge Update 84
21 Books to Read in 2021 Update 30
The Reward Challenge Update #589
Wheel of TBR #136
How Well I Stuck to It #441
Wrote that Review Update #438

Week 52 Reviews:
The Queen's Chair

Clear Your S**t Readathon: 

Random:

OK, so I got 49 posts in 7 days, the end of the year came, and here's hoping that 2023 is better! It's nice that I have today off, and I'm going to sleep in darn it, I don't have the doggies, I don't have work, I don't need to be up before 8, let alone 4, 5, and 6 am! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Tress of the Emerald Sea! Which I'll accomplish, because I actually read it yesterday! It was a great start to the year! Especially since the 1st was the 4 year anniversary of Winky's passing.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride.

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? 
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Saturday, December 31, 2022

Week 52 Review: The Unidentified

From Goodreads:
Kid knows her school's corporate sponsors not-so-secretly monitor her friendships and activities for market research. It's all a part of the Game; the alternative education system designed to use the addictive kick from video games to encourage academic learning. Everyday, a captive audience of students ages 13-17 enter the nationwide chain store-like Game locations to play.

When a group calling themselves The Unidentified simulates a suicide to protest the power structure of their school, Kid's investigation into their pranks attracts unwanted attention from the sponsors. As Kid finds out she doesn't have rights to her ideas, her privacy, or identity, she and her friends look for a way to revolt in a place where all acts of rebellion are just spun into the next new ad campaign. 

My Review:
I had a really great time reading this book! I've read books with this kind of concept before, with hyper tracking, I really enjoyed this take, with the corporation angle! I loved watching Kid and the others rebellion against this awful way of life!

This world where the schooling was a game where if you were good within the system, that you got corporate sponsorships, yeah, that's not cool. The power that the trendsetters have, it's part of the corruption that the Unidentified are fighting. 

I can totally understand why Kid wants to join the Unidentified, to fight against this system, because frankly, it's terrifying, that this is is a potential future. I mean, you can see what elements of today's society has grown into what this became, and the flaws present today, are magnified.  

I had a really great time reading Kid's story as she was dealing with her everything that was at stake. There were questions that needed to be answered, and I really enjoyed watching Kid and her best friend Mikey as they learn more about the system! 

I had a great time reading this book, and I'm really glad that I did!  

Author: Rae Mariz
Read: December 24th, 2022
Source: Own
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a LLFL Book, SAC 2022 Book and a WTC Book!  
Publisher: Balzer + Bray 
Published: October 5th 2010
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars 
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Friday, December 30, 2022

21 Books to Read in 2021 Update 30

Yeah, I read my next book for the 21 Books to Read in 2021 Challenge! 

So I read The Unidentified by Rae Mariz from the Physical List, and The Infinity of You & Me by J.Q. Coyle from the NetGalley List! 

Yep. Happy reading!

Here's the link to this year's post with my journey.

But to recap, I wanted to do a version of These Books Will Self Destruct in 12 months without the self destruct. I wanted to read books that I've had for a while, that I really needed to get read, but maybe I forgot about them or that I had them. So I made 3 lists, one for each way I have them, as physical books, as an NetGalley ARC, and as an Edelweiss ARC.   
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Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge Update 84

So I read my next LLFL Book! 
 
I read The Unidentified! 

Yep. Happy reading!

Here's the link to this year's post with my journey.

What it is:

You pick a book, read it. Then you look at the last letter of the title, for example, "The Adventures of Tom Saywer." Then you take that last letter, and search you TBR piles for a book starting with the last letter, so continuing the example, someone could read "Rotters" next, and then a title that starts with "s."

Rules:
1. Have fun!
2. Read!
3. The last letter of the book you read must be the first letter of the next book you read.
4. Words like "the," "a," "and," and those such don't count as the first letter.
5. If a letter becomes overused, like d, e, l, w, ext., and you run out of books that you really want to read for this challenge, cycle in letters that don't often get used like a, b, i, k, p, ext, and note what you cycle in, where! 
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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Will the Time Come #469, May 28th

Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!
Want to Join?
-Pick a book you have been meaning to read
-Do a post telling us about the book    
-Link the post up in the linky  
-Visit the other blogs

Kid knows her school’s corporate sponsors not-so-secretly monitor her friendships and activities for market research. It’s all a part of the Game; the alternative education system designed to use the addictive kick from video games to encourage academic learning. Everyday, a captive audience of students ages 13-17 enter the nationwide chain store-like Game locations to play.

 When a group calling themselves The Unidentified simulates a suicide to protest the power structure of their school, Kid’s investigation into their pranks attracts unwanted attention from the sponsors. As Kid finds out she doesn't have rights to her ideas, her privacy, or identity, she and her friends look for a way to revolt in a place where all acts of rebellion are just spun into the next new ad campaign.

Why the time hasn't come yet...
It sounds really good, and I've read a book or two with this concept, but I want to read this one, as well! Hopefully I will! What about you guys? Happy reading!
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