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This book has a very clever concept, a story in multiple choice format, but I‘m not sure I really understood all of it. If I took the quiz today I‘d probably get a C 🤓 Big thanks to @rockpools and @Magpiegem for putting this slim novel from Chile on my #ReadersRadar - I rate it a B+ for content A+ for creativity 👩‍🏫

I‘ve decided upon my #TravelStack 📚only 4 paperbacks but a fully loaded kindle and iPad with Audible, Scribd, NetGalley, Hoopla & OverDrivee😄‼️Plus you never know what I may find on my travels 😉

34/22 finished this one whilst being hit on the head with cars being rolled down my hammock 😂

I was much more moved by this slim book than I thought I would be. It was bananas, yes, but it was also poignant, intriguing, funny, sad, and very clever. Chile is not a country I know that much about but this book gave me an abstract flavor. I highly recommend 4.5⭐️ #booked2022 #makeyourownprompt & first book of #192025 challenge #2014

Question- Finish the following sentence:

I Should be

A. Cleaning the house
B. Doing work
C. Finishing this little beauty for #booked2022

Answer- I think we all know 😉

So for #booked2022 #makeyourownprompt I will be using the prompt “weirdest Litsy review that made you read a book”. Thank you @rockpools for inspiring my prompt 😂 I hope it lives up to your one sentence review!

Well, that was an experience.

That‘s it. That‘s my review.

Think I‘ll use this for #Booked2022 #MakeYourOwnPrompt, the prompt either being ‘What the flip was that?!‘ Or ‘Like nothing you‘ve read before‘.

I should add, I did come away from this smiling. It‘s highly entertaining, although what he has to say can be quite cutting. Possibly.

“3. You read books that are much stranger than the books you would write if you wrote.”

Yup.

And I‘ve just spotted question 3 on the front cover. This has made me laugh more than once. Honestly can‘t tell you what it is though!

Thanks for the tag @julesG 😊

📖Not reading much atm, but I have started the tagged.
📓It‘s a print book. Loving library holds when I can get them.
🤷🏻‍♀️I *genuinely* can‘t rate this yet. It‘s like reading performance art. Or an exam. It‘s weird. I don‘t know if I get it - suspect it may come together later. I‘ll keep you posted.
🖊No, or at least very rarely.

#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94

Tagging YOU if you haven‘t played yet 😁

Well, that was weird. Creative and bold to write a book in the form of a multiple choice test, but ultimately very weird. I‘ll say that I‘m glad I got through the first section, which makes NO sense at all, to read the other sections, which make a small amount of sense.

I'm not entirely sure what this is... But I think I like it. A book of statements written in multiple choice format: sometimes profane, sometimes nonsensical, sometimes provoking, always interesting.

Relatively short and written in test format, it certainly packs a punch.

It might be too early for this book written in multiple choice.

Written in the form of a standardized test, the questions are mostly unanswerable which is what makes this book clever. As you read, the answer choices become more and more absurd, while the passages take on a stream-of-consciousness flow that is unique to Zambra. Quick read, and amusing.
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

The whole book is set up like a multiple choice test. In this section, it says to put the sentences in the most coherent order. I love how it‘s like poetry, but not exactly. I love how an order occurs to me based on my experiences but that I imagine others see it differently. I really love this one. Anyone want to share their answer? I‘ll put mine as a spoiler in case anyone wants to choose first, then compare our answers.

#bookmail These are my new ones, and I‘ll be posting about my kids‘ new books too. My daughter and I read Lumberjanes together, but I still consider them mine when I get new ones. I started Multiple Choice today, amd I‘m loving it. It is so different.

What a strange little book! The structure of the book is based on a multiple choice test that is used to get into Chilean Universities. It is hard to rate something this unique but it grew on me as I read it and I will probably remember it because of it's unique format.

This absurdist take on the standardized test is sobering, hilarious, and incisive. I expected to appreciate it, but I really really enjoyed it too.

Phenomenal text.

Zambra packs a punch following a standardized test format while covering relationships, academics, politics, and Chilean life. Engaging, funny, sad, and absurd. Despite the style, I‘n not sure it‘ll stick with me... much like the info I crammed before an exam. But, it does inspire me to ask: After reading this write up, do you think I will:

A. Not read anything else by Zambra
B. Trade it
C. Read more by Zambra
D. C. The answer is always C.

An evening with no plans means I plan to read. #HomemadeLondonFog #CurrentlyReading

Pop quiz! It‘s a very interesting read and though short, l feel like it‘s taking me a little while to read t because it really makes you think! :)

Such a rewarding read. Consider me amazed.

My shelves have precious little by #southamericanauthors on them, so here's an old photo of Murchie with Alejandro Zambra's excellent MULTIPLE CHOICE. #fallintobooks

The most creative book I've read in quite some time. Funny, clever and quick read. 5 stars goes to the reading comprehension portion.

Quick, lovely, challenging exercise

#AndItsAugust Day 15 - Two-Word Title

✏️The entire flash-fiction/poetry collection/whatever is told in a very experimental style - a standardized test. There's even a bubble sheet in the back for you to fill in your answers📝

The author based the structure on the Chilean Academic Aptitude Test, and looks at the absurdity of this kind of testing to demonstrate learning, and promoting compliance to governmental powers.

What a clever and interesting format. I also really connected to the content.

Read them in the order of the options. Amazing.

1) In a chair. I never read in bed.
2) Greek mythology
3) Average only. I'd go mad only reading one book a month.
4) Tv series
5)Adult fiction
This was fun @Kalalalatja !

This was posted by @Kalalalatja #bookishwouldyourather

And here are my answers 😎

1. Mostly paperbacks (more space within the bookshelf)
2. New reads
3. I also buy books (because my library wasn't really up to date with new releases )
4. You can find both variations on my bookshelf
5. Lotr
6. 500+

Who would also like to answer this? 🤗

#readathon lunch and my favorite book so far! Loved the unconventional formatting and raw emotion. Read this, y'all. Seriously.

I enjoyed dipping in and out of this book and felt the premise was clever. I'm just not sure I interacted with the text in a meaningful or memorable way.

Insomnia wounds and accompanies you.

You read books that are much stranger than the books you would write if you wrote

That rush of blood to the head that you get when you finish two books in 25 hours #booknerdproblems

Loved how the author used the standardized test format to make wry and touching points about politics, parenting, and relationships. A lot was packed into this 100 pages and I thoroughly enjoyed it. #litsyatoz #letterZ #translation #mmd #readharder #southamerican #lrcchallenge

A strange and interesting way to compose poetry, short stories, and political commentary. I enjoyed most of it. It was a bit like reliving the SATs, but not in a scary way.
#readharder #poetryintranslation #bookriot

On days off, I'm usually the first one up. I'll lay in bed or scroll through news on my phone before inevitably dosing off into slumber again. Today I decided to actually get out of bed and read. I had made a New Year's resolution to make more time to read, but a couple weeks in and I already unfortunately see myself falling wayward on that promise. With the help of Litsy and another app, I'll get to my goal! Second book of the year 👌🏼👆🏼

We were out of town for a few days. Had these waiting at the library when I came back.

I found this book fascinating. Structured based on the Chilean Academic Aptitude Test, parts of it read like poetry, and all of it is set, like the title says, in multiple choice.

At 101 pages it's a quick read, and aren't you intrigued by the format?

#notawhiteprotagonist

I don't think I was the right reader for this. I just didn't get it.

One of the most creative books of poetry & prose I've seen. Zambra, a Chilean author, has written a collection that explores family, love, & social commentary, particularly our lack of critical thinking in education & the mindless repetition we are forced to endure. Written in the format of the Chilean standard exam for college entrance, Zambra forces us to examine how we think & process our lives with multiple choice questions & sardonic wit. 📝

#6 #libfaves16 An experimental novel wrapped inside a test booklet. Themes of fathers, being a family man, and the Pinochet dictatorship are some of the themes. It becomes an examination of what you can add and take away as a writer. Does it mean the same thing or does that slight pivot alter it significantly?

Playful & serious, restrictive and liberating. Miniature narratives & subversion of standardized testing. Experimental criticism of memorization as rote learning versus the real, human toll of history. A hybrid text that defies easy categorization.

This is going to be a blast

Reading at night is even more important these days. Who needs sleep? I've got books to read!

#allthebooks #thatswhatsheread #bookstagram #bookaholic #bookworm #bibliophile #2016readingchallenge #readhard #readharder #readingharderest #bibliomaniac #goodreads #booknerd #booknerds

#SeptPhotoChallenge Day 21 - Translated book

Translated from Spanish, this book is structured like a Chilean standardized test. There are even bubble sheets at the back for you to fill in your answers. Each question is a piece of flash fiction on topics like family, politics, death, and love - followed by four possible "answers". This is a bonkers book about language, Chilean society, and the country's educational practices. #somethingforsept

Read the review this morning. I am intrigued. Testing as political tool. Zambra grew up in chile under Pinochet. Book contains full in the blank and multiple choice sections. #tbr

Alejandro Zambra is a treasure. Wittiest multiple choice test I have ever read. What are your answers? I like B for both 🤓