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📖 Unwind by Neal Shusterman
✍️ Linda Urban
🎬 Unbreakable, Underworld, Up
🎤 U2, Umm (or Oum) Kulthum
🎶 Umma Therman (Fall Out Boy), Unbreak My Heart (Toni Braxton), Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers), Un Sueño y Nada Mas (Grupo Polo Montañes), Un Beso (Aventura)
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pickThis book was an absolute ride!! Loved how the Book handled talking about a subject like this while still keeping the book interesting. It‘s definitely not for the faint of hart but it‘s worth checking it out
Have a review video talking more about this one #booktube #bookreview
Unwind review
https://youtu.be/8R7cXML2hH4
so-soSpooky season calls for a neal shusterman review! I read this one for a book club yearsss ago, but I‘m still semi-scarred by the story. The plot itself is well-developed and the premise is unique, but I‘m just not a fan of the gory/eerie genre. I also didn‘t know this book was basically about abortion laws until this year🫢 anyways, not the biggest fan, but some people may like it!
pickI vaguely knew about this book because a classmate did a project on it at UF, and I am so happy I read it!Just like Dry by Shusterman, “it‘s giving me anxiety but I can‘t stop reading it.” After a war on reproductive rights (too real, amirite?), it‘s decided that people can‘t abort, but “unwind” children between 13-18, giving their organs and body parts to other people. This book follows 3 kids escaping the process. Made me audibly gasp in places.
pickThis story has such an interesting premise and one that seems particularly poignant right now: abortion is outlawed but parents/the state can choose to “unwind” kids from age 13 to 18, which means every single part of the child is taken apart and transplanted into someone else who needs it 😳. We see it from the POV of a number of people, including 3 kids set to be unwound. It‘s brutal and heart wrenching and quite poignant. ⬇️
That time when I met Neal Shusterman at the LA Times Festival of Books & got my FAVORITE book EVER signed by him! 😍 On cloud 9!
His son Jarrod & his son's wife Sophia are SO NICE! 🥰🥰😃 Guys, I can't even!
That's my Instagram @wj.cintron if you wanna connect!
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1. Uhhhhhhhhhhh….Orchid? ‘Cause of the Opeth album? Idk 😭
2. Gonna answer both. Unwind by Neal Shusterman will forever be my comfort read. A book where you can send your unruly children to have their body parts and organs amputated and donated to other people in need. Very comforting indeed 🥰 My comfort genre constantly switches from high fantasy and sci-fi.
3. Honesty.
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pickThis was a reread for me and oh my geezus. I forget how much this book breaks my heart!!! A world where you‘re taken apart live and your parts used for someone else. Neal Shusterman knocked it out of the park with this book. Incredible!
What could fit this not-so-scary sounding, dance-poppy Rihanna song?🤔 A disturbing YA dystopian series about parents who send their unruly children 13+ to have all their organs and body parts transplanted to different donors? Hm wise choice to me!
Seriously, this is easily in top 3 all-time favorite series for me Do yourself a favor and read this masterpiece! Recommend to anyone looking for sci-fi with body horror elements
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I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 128.
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so-soI think this is a great book for upper primary and early middle school aged kids. It‘s not too violent, and mild sexual innuendo, but manages to create a dystopian world with an interesting premise. I think it manages to add perspective to the abortion debate in a fairly meaningful way, and perhaps provide a way to discuss that and other difficult topics with the freedom of a fantastic dystopia as a framework.
pickFinally got around to reading the first book in this series. It was very good. An easy middle/young adult book to read, that breaches a lot of topics of discussion.
I‘m really interested to see how this one book turns into a series. If it will follow more and more characters or delve into these lives some more...
pickLiked it! Coincidentally, I just finished Remains of the Day and Unwind seems inspired by Ishiguro‘s Never Let Me Go. Unwind is primarily a YA adventure story though, rather than a character study or rumination on a moral/ethical issue, although those are present to a degree. It‘s first in a series and I‘m looking forward to seeing where the story goes! The picture is from the brilliant Allie Brosh‘s blog and 💯is how I feel lately. #insomniasucks
so-soLet me say this book was engaging and I binge read it in one day. With that being said, I didn‘t feel as attached to the characters as I hoped I would and I felt like things didn‘t really pick up until near the end. However, I liked it enough to get the second book and I hope the future books in the series are as engaging and create more of a connection for me with the characters.
so-soFinished this a couple days ago. The beginning was a little slow and lost my interest but picked up again when I forced myself to continue. Is the rest of the series worth finishing?
(not a horror book, just scary dystopian!)
1. Husband & I were sleeping in a guest room at my parents'. A panflute was near the bed. I woke up middle of the night hearing one and then a second note played on the panflute. I sat up. I thought it was a dream. My husband sat up & asked me why I was playing the flute.
#wellThatWasOdd #supernatural
2. Airbags!
I forgot to check who's played. Come play!
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"In her six months working in the emergency room, the young doctor has seen enough strange things to fill her own medical school textbook, but this is the first time someone has crash-landed a helicopter in the hospital parking lot."
? What a way to start a chapter!
pickThis book made me think. What will become over the argument between pro-life and pro-choice? Excited to read the rest of the series.
pickI‘ve been so obsessed with Neal Shusterman‘s books lately. Unwind was really good, I thought the ending was okay. Unwind is an amazing book 10/10 rating!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Good morning! I was able to get through a chapter of my #jolabokaflodswap book from the wonderful @Lovesbooks87 last night, and I am hooked! I am a little backwards because yesterday was family day and today is the day I get to do nothing but read, so I'm quite excited to do just that all day (with a brief intermission for French toast coming up soon 😋).
so-soIf you're looking for a well written, exciting and stressful distopian that will burrow deep into your head, look no further. I kind of regret reading this book (at the very least I should have skipped the unwind chapter) because it really upset me, but it's a great read. #distopian #yalit #medical
pick★ ★ ★ ★ ★
➜ I love this book. It was something I was able to understand and resonate; being a teenager without the right to voice. Being abandoned by the ones who were suppose to love and protect you.
➜ The biggest complaint I can think of would be the side quest midway with a side character. However I regret EVER being bored with it because the payoff was BEAUTIFUL!
Ten out of ten, would recommend.
I am in love with the My Library app. I spent way too long deciding exactly how I'd use it, and I settled on this ^. I'm using the notes feature to give books a Status rather than a rating: love, good, fun, etc. Wtv word feels right to me. The Goods, the stuff I came to the book for. For some books, I added a Problems section, for anything I didn't like. Feels good to track my books my own way. Goodreads is great but so rigid!
pickMan, this story was still has heart-wrenching & explosive as the first time I read it. Connor is one of my all time favorite characters — gritty & warm-hearted. Both make up for the slightly confusing world-building. I still have a REALLY hard time believing that in a futuristic world the abortion debate was somehow put to rest without a single discussion about what to do if the pregnancy is not viable/endangers the health of the mother. ★★★★☆.
This is one of those books I‘ve talked about as if I‘d read it but never really did. The public librarian came to talk to my 7th & 8th graders about summer programming and books. She included this flashback and here I am .... reading it now! So good 😊
"Why are you still with me, Fry?" CyFi asked. "Any sane dude woulda taken off days ago."
"Who says I'm sane?"
"Oh, you're sane, Fry. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane." - Lev and CyFi
"Which was worse, Risa often wondered-to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted, or to silently make them go away before they were even born? On different days, Risa had different answers." - Risa
pickThis is a science-fiction novel which I would assign students to read individually. This novel takes place in the US and is set in the future. In this future world, there is a second Civil War which is far over reproductive rights. The resolution of the war was that between age of 13 and 18, parents can have their child “unwound,” whereby all their organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn‘t technically end.
pickAbortions do not exist after the Second Civil War, parents can now give their children up to be unwound if from 13-18 they do not reach their potential in life. Connor escapes only to find Risa and Lev who are also trying to escape their unwound destiny. I loved this book, every pro lifer and pro choice person needs to read this. Great YA book that uses today‘s challenges of how people think that their way will solve all problems.
I'm waiting for Thunderhead to come in so I'll give this a try in the meantime.
pickWhat is wrong with Shusterman?! What makes someone think and write something like this?! Why do I let him hurt me with EVERY BOOK?!
I have a feeling this will hurt...
pickTook me about 200 pages to really get into this book, but I ended up loving it! The ending has me eager to see what happens next, so I'm glad I have the box set and can just dive back in.
pickThis book was a wild ride, in all the best ways possible! Neal Shusterman is always about to creat worlds that I can‘t help but fall into. I love young adult books like the, that bring forward real world issues in an exciting and understandable way. There was not one character in this novel that I didn't want to read more about, and that is so very rare.I flew through this book, and found that there were no parts that dragged on.
pickInitially when I realized that I picked this book up and it was dystopian, I was a little disappointed because there‘s just SO MUCH of it lately and I‘m getting burnt out! But this, is unique and fresh. It really takes the topic of pro life versus pro choice and tackles the what if‘s in a way that is new and thought provoking. Lots of ethical questions and grey areas in this book. It‘s absolutely worth reading!
I need suggestions!!!! As part of a settling in routine, I'd like to begin my second year class with a bit of reading aloud -- kids loved having their teacher read to them in primary school! So, does anyone have a super engaging suggestion?!?! I'd thought about the tagged book but not entirely sure about the topic of 'reproductive rights'.
"Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age 13. Between the ages of 13 and 18 however, parents can have their child "unwound" whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors so life doesn't technically end."
WHHAAATTTT THIS BOOK SOUNDS INSANE ! SO I MUST READ IT!!!
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pickUnwind by Neal Shusterman is a SF novel and ALA Best Book for Young Adults winner. This book is about a boy named Connor and how he must deal with the fact that his parents are sending him to be unwound. The setting is in the future after a civil war where children can be sent to “harvesting camps” where their organs are donated and they will live on forever through their donated organs.
pick5/5👐🏻. Fascinating concept. In this world 13-17 year olds that don‘t make the cut to continue to adulthood are harvested for their organs. The story is told from three different perspectives with each narrator providing a different background. Looking forward to the next one.
