You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past either. The only way to learn the secret behind your school mate’s death is to simple press play. Clay returns home from school one day to find a strange box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside of the box he finds 7 cassette tapes which were recorded by Hanna Baker. Hanna was his school crush which had committed suicide 2 weeks earlier. On these tapes Hannah tells him 13 reasons why she had committed suicide. And Clay is one of these 13 reasons. Clay spends the night walking around the town and listens to the 13 reasons why behind Hannah’s death.
Yes. This book is about suicide and what bullying can do. And oh boy there are some red flags in this book, at least for me.
The story is unique and it really shows what’s really going on in high schools now on days.
The characters are very well done. And the main character Clay is super relatable as a character. I feel like I would react the same way as Clay did in this book. However when it comes to Hannah, she feels like she is super foolish, overacting and believing in everything she hears and see. Selfishness is also a word which describes her.
This book does glamorize suicide a little bit. There are times when this book is more or less like “everything will be better when you are dead” And overall this book fails to show us that if you really feel a lot of pain in your life, all you have to do is just wait it out. Because pain is temporary.
The action in this book burns fast, and it still remains interesting. Which a lot of books lack to do it when the action is happening fast.
The idea of making cassette tapes is bad. Because now on days no one really have a cassette tape player.
However, this book shows that a lot of teens now on days doesn’t really think what they action and words they say will affect others. And that one thing you do to someone else at school may lead to a much worse thing for that some person tomorrow at school.
There are times in this book when Hannah goes much harder on Jessica than on anyone else.It almost feels like Hannah really bad wants Jessica pay for something.
The writing style is pretty good. Its better than ive expected.
The whole book is pretty small and a quick read. Because if you get into this book as I did, you will read this book in just 2 days. Which is amazing. But I understand that not everyone will get so much into this book as I did. And its important to say that it was super easy for me to get into this book.
Another thing about this book is that if you don’t get sympathy towards Hannah at the beginning or at least throughout this book, you will most likely don’t like this book or hate it. But I myself have the sympathy to Hannah and understand her. Which makes it easier for me to like this book so much as I do.
Hannah a lot of times feels like she is super selfish. Because couple of the reasons which she is talking about for me only feels like some of these people at the tapes only had bad days when “one of the 13 reasons happened”.
Clearly this book covers a super dark topic which makes this book to a book which you will either love it or hate it. Pretty much it isn’t something between love it or hate it in this book.
I give this book 4 / 5
Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis.
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of Norway’s governing Labour Party. In The Island, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist? 
When a beautiful aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.
“No request is too bold, no need is too great. Hope for a miracle is never absurd. Katarzyna Pawluś, experienced by fate, pampered by God, sets a task for us to measure up to our strength. He writes about miracles, making dreams come true and love in a very difficult time, when he is ill and fights for his life. A little humorous, a bit reflective, but always with unwavering faith in man – in his good and wisdom, with the message “You are a miracle!”.
It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
Irish Airlines Boeing 747 was due to land in Tel Aviv at three in the morning. He never made it to the site and contact with the machine was lost somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. There were 520 people on board, including Philip’s fiancée, who was to make a pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. For the first hours, Filip believes that the plane will find itself. There is no indication of an attack, the coast guard does not find the wreckage, and from time to time the air traffic control receives a signal from a transponder. What happened to the Boeing? How is his disappearance related to similar events?
Necromancers, revenants, even a summoned demon or two – they’re all in a day’s work for the men of the Echo Team and their enigmatic leader, Cade Williams. But nothing could prepare them for the fury they are about to face…When a Jesuit priest wanders out of the New Mexico desert, telling wild stories about a secret research installation and bloodthirsty demons hunting through its halls, the Echo Team is called in to deal with the situation. Their orders – investigate the facility, determine exactly what happened there, and deal with any infernal presence that might exist.But the being they encounter there beneath the desert sands has found a way to break the bonds of Hell itself and doesn’t plan on going back easily. This time, their foe might prove to be too much for even the best the Templars have to offer.
Speak With Your Voice is 50 engaging lessons about the power of words – not silence; about the fact that even if the truth is difficult to face, only in this way will we become free. How to exercise courage? How to face everyday life in spite of our fears and fears? And finally – how to share your story so that it is inspiration and hope?
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