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This week Yellow was . Time for my annual rant at the inadequacies with the Shortlist. Yellow haunts me, but not for the right reasons. I was loving the story, the writing, Boogie the unreliable ghost, until I got to page 173.
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Yes, Megan Jacobson's writing is spectacular, but...
The book design by Marina Messiha is phenomenal, with surreal, geometric eye adorning the cover and internally.
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bookshelves: 1990s, australia, australian-author, bullying, death, family, friendship, ghosts, high-school, loveozya, supernatural, fantasy, alcoholism, poverty, small-town, cbca-notables-2017, book-design, cover-love, cbca-shortlist-2017, published-2016, aust-2016-pub, owned-book
Nov 14, 2016
bookshelves: 1990s, australia, australian-author, bullying, death, family, friendship, ghosts, high-school, loveozya, supernatural, fantasy, alcoholism, poverty, small-town, cbca-notables-2017, book-design, cover-love, cbca-shortlist-2017, published-2016, aust-2016-pub, owned-book
"There's nothing more real than the things that can haunt you."
This week Yellow was . Time for my annual rant at the inadequacies with the Shortlist. Yellow haunts me, but not for the right reasons. I was loving the story, the writing, Boogie the unreliable ghost, until I got to page 173.
(view spoiler)
Yes, Megan Jacobson's writing is spectacular, but...
"I wonder how many little scraps of beauty we miss because we're too busy walking around in the dark."
The book design by Marina Messiha is phenomenal, with surreal, geometric eye adorning the cover and internally.
This is from my blog
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Quotes Clare Liked
“I don't have the memories that she does, and a particular set of lyrics can't open a box inside of me where memories curl out like wisps of smoke.”
― Yellow
― Yellow
“With the moon, it's more subtle, and it reminds me of myself, the way part of the moon is almost always hidden. It takes time for the moon to show herself.”
― Yellow
― Yellow
“To be born with few brains, well, that's unfortunate. To be born with brains to spare and to waste them? That's a sin.”
― Yellow
― Yellow
Reading Progress
August 20, 2016
– Shelved
August 20, 2016
– Shelved as:
to-read
September 30, 2016
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Started Reading
October 1, 2016
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16.99%
"There's something so liberating about having no social status to lose."
page
44
October 1, 2016
–
22.01%
"I know this feeling. The four am feeling. Like loneliness is living in that space where my soul meets my bones."
page
57
October 2, 2016
–
30.89%
"there's something of the childhood beast in the way the wall of water forces forward, all liquid muscle and a fury that can't be reasoned with or tamed."
page
80
October 2, 2016
–
32.82%
"The only way I can ever really show how I feel is out there, on the ocean."
page
85
October 2, 2016
–
36.68%
"when you ask your science teacher for tips on how to dispose of a body. Oh Kirra!?"
page
95
October 3, 2016
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43.24%
"I don't know what to think, but that strange feeling washes over me again, that odd one that feels like friendship."
page
112
October 4, 2016
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49.03%
"the moment shatters into pieces then and there. I want to collect every shattered shard and put them in my pocket, and keep them next to me for always."
page
127
October 5, 2016
–
56.76%
"sometimes we just have to muddle around in the dark by ourselves. That's just how it is sometimes."
page
147
October 8, 2016
–
66.8%
"I wonder how many little scraps of beauty we miss because we're too busy walking around in the dark."
page
173
November 4, 2016
–
74.9%
"my words rise up and are sliced to pieces by the blades of the overhead fan. I can almost feel the shards of them fall down to settle on my shoulders."
page
194
November 5, 2016
–
79.15%
"Walking's good for unknotting all the thoughts that get tangled up inside my head."
page
205
November 8, 2016
–
89.96%
""school has shifted sideways somehow while I wasn't looking, and year nine is no longer wedged inside a special corner of hell.""
page
233
November 14, 2016
–
98.46%
""like the space between words in the kind of book that makes you stop and just rest the pages on your chest from the truth of it, or in that winged space in between the notes of a song.""
page
255
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
1990s
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
australia
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
australian-author
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
bullying
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
death
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
family
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
friendship
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
ghosts
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
high-school
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
loveozya
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
supernatural
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
fantasy
November 14, 2016
– Shelved as:
alcoholism
November 15, 2016
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Finished Reading
December 17, 2016
– Shelved as:
poverty
January 17, 2017
– Shelved as:
small-town
February 28, 2017
– Shelved as:
cbca-notables-2017
March 15, 2017
– Shelved as:
book-design
March 15, 2017
– Shelved as:
cover-love
March 28, 2017
– Shelved as:
cbca-shortlist-2017
February 25, 2021
– Shelved as:
published-2016
February 25, 2021
– Shelved as:
aust-2016-pub
March 8, 2023
– Shelved as:
owned-book
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Jun 25, 2017 04:11AM
Yes, I did like the book, but I wasn't sure about how well that detox would work either. As I recall, Willow told her that her father's detox had worked, but that he had made th decision himself. It was the ghost who suggested the chaining up. And we know all about him by the end, don't we? I found that bit jarring. I think the kids at my school will prefer Frankie, as I did.
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Sue wrote: "...I think the kids at my school will prefer Frankie, as I did."I too loved Frankie!
