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| Original Title: | Extraordinary Means |
| ISBN: | 006221716X (ISBN13: 9780062217165) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2017) |
Robyn Schneider
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.96 | 15832 Users | 2308 Reviews
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| Title | : | Extraordinary Means |
| Author | : | Robyn Schneider |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | May 26th 2015 by Katherine Tegen Books |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Romance. Fiction |
Rendition Conducive To Books Extraordinary Means
I read this book as a birthday gift to one of the best people on Goodreads- Masooma, who is celebrating her birthday today and who clearly loved this book. (Click her name for the most beautiful review on the book.) Let’s give her a happy birthday rap y’all!
♪ It’s your birthday, Awesome Masooma-ha!
It’s time to celebre-he-ate
Let’s wish her a happy birthde-hey,let’s wish her a happy birthde-hey!
Clap our hands in the air! (2x)
Stomp our feet on the ground! (2x)
The wheels on the bus go round and round…
I mean… Happy Birthday to you, Awesome Masooma-ha!
(Hope this made you smile. Lol!^^) ♫
REVIEW
This is a sad and painful story but one that didn’t make me feel that way because the honest and charming writing simply told a believable story and because the characters weren’t trying to romanticize anything-not sickness, not life nor death. They’re plainly accepting things for what they are.
The plot isn’t much. If anything, it was a bit predictable but in a pleasant way, in a way that is true to life. But what made this story special is the most inspiring message it suggests which eased its way through my heart like a favorite lullaby. I didn’t have to wrestle so hard with interpreting symbols to find meaning because the story isn’t trying to be overdramatic or too intellectual. It’s simple and genuine, exactly how I like most things.
Living and dying aren’t all that different. The story reminded me that. The former is simply looking at a glass half full while the latter is looking at it half empty. For some of us, it has to take a tragedy, a phenomenon, a strong force or some sort of EXTRAORDINARY MEANS to realize life started its countdown the moment we took our very first breath but somehow, mundane things, plans and thinking too much of the future make us forget to actually live the moment. I appreciate the story for reminding me these things.
Life as we know it rarely goes as planned. Who really knows what happens tomorrow or just a few hours later? There is very little in life we can control except the time we have now and while we have this moment, the story enjoins us to make meaning out of it, make room for people who really matter, laugh more, seize the day or whatever you may want to call it, take a detour, do anything fun- anything that makes you happy, anything that isn’t always planned out.
“But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.”
Don’t you just love books and Goodreaders?! *sighs appreciatively*
Rating Appertaining To Books Extraordinary Means
Ratings: 3.96 From 15832 Users | 2308 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books Extraordinary Means
What an extraordinary story!^^This is a story of a 17 year old young male adult named LANE,who seems to have a perfect life with a great future ahead of him,with high grades,and with a girlfriend whose pretty and smart until he was diagnosed with an incurable Tuberculosis,and was sent to LATHAM HOUSE,a boarding school and sanatorium for this kind of disease.There in Latham,he was reunited with SADIE,the girl he knew from summer camp 4 yeas ago.A girl who is carefree and who leads a selectiveAWWW MAN THAT WAS SAD!!! But I loved it. I was instantly attracted to the illness part of this book, which sounded really interesting and futuristic to me (even though I know it isn't). It's scary, but I like to think about living such a sad life and being in this world, as similar as it is to ours, except for the illness. The sadness of these kids' destiny hit me really hard, with all the similarities to summer camp that their quarantine camp has. Comparing to opposite things like that makes
Reminded me a little too much of a John green book. Wish the romance would have been a little more in depth. Criticisms aside,this book made me cry like a baby in the end so I obviously must have been more into than I thought.
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ Theres a difference between being dead and dying. Due to a severe case of old lady brain, Im not 100% positive how this ended up on my Kindle, but I think it was from the librarys recommendation software which proves either (1) Im not as disgusting a pervert as I figured the library thought me to be or (2) I logged in with someone elses account by accident. Whatever the reason, I ended up with Extraordinary Means and bumped it to the
Intriguing, perceptive and another enlightening coming of age story.Lane was about to begin his senior year with his whole life ahead of him. He had his friends, girlfriend and dream of going to Stanford to look forward too. Until he is diagnosed with TDR-turburculosis. He is sent to a sanatorium that has an 80% rate of survival. His world is tipped upside down as he struggles with his past, present and future. Not knowing how much time he has left live or what his future holds, Lane embarks on
My ECG throughout the book:One moment: steady, floating along the rhythm of the novelThe other moment: drumming to the thrill of adventures of broken rules and forbidden thingsAnother moment: hoping like a sandwich short of a picnicYet another moment: detonated like an atomic bomb in pain and griefAnd the final moment: *sigh* I guess my ECG explains fully how I felt throughout the novel. Robyn Schneider made sure she shoved a twister full of emotions. I felt all the emotions at once- pain,
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