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Cargando... Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology (2017)por Amie Kaufman (Contribuidor), Danielle Binks (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I wanted to love this book. There was one story I loved, thank you Ellie Marney. There were a couple I enjoyed, a few were ok and one I couldn't finish. I debated on whether this was a two or three star book. ( ) What it says on the tin: Australian YA short stories around the theme of beginnings and endings (and also love). I borrowed it for Jaclyn Moriarty’s “Competition Entry #349”, but I was also curious about Amie Kaufman’s “One Small Step…”. Those stories serve as the ending and beginning of this collection. Of those two, my favourite was Moriarty’s whacky and very Moriarty-ish take on time-travel. In the middle were author I’m less familiar with or hadn’t heard of at all. Lili Wilkinson’s “Oona Underground” stood out as an excellent story. I was also impressed by Danielle Binks’ “Last Night at Mount Solemn Observatory”, about the night before Bowie’s older brother leaves home. The pacing of Michael Pryor’s story about trying to help alien refugees, “First Casualty”, struck me as not wholly successful, as if it needed to be longer, a novella or a novel, but I liked its idea and plot. And Ellie Marney’s “Missing Persons” left me curious about the books which this story is a prequel to -- something to look for. “Yes,” I say. “It’s my first actual day of high school ever. I moved from the country. I was home-schooled via distance ed before now.” “Incredible.” He shakes my free hand, while lying in that peculiar position. “You’ve managed to evade formal education for a significant period of your life. Congratulations and well done.” As for the others, I enjoyed them and/or thought they were solid stories. Nothing I regretted reading or wanted to set on fire -- which isn’t something I can say about every anthology I’ve read. The #LoveOzYA stands for “Love Australian Young Adult Literature” which is exactly what the Antho is choc-full of. There are 10 short-stories across all genres, from 10 different Aussie YA authors (among them – Amie Kaufman, Jaclyn Moriarty, Will Kostakis, Alice Pung and so many more!) And there’s *definitely* romance in there. From the first person born on Mars falling for her best friend, to a hunt for a mysterious witch to prove your love, time-travelling back to your first ever kiss, and what to do when having the gift of premonition means you also know from the first kiss that a romance is doomed. But if romance is not your thing - there's also horror, sci-fi, contemporary, surrealism ... all with the YA coming-of-age thread running through. So if you want to read outside your region, and see what’s happening waaaaaaaaay across the pond – please check out ‘Begin, End, Being: A #LoveOzYA Anthology’ This is a really weird anthology -- the majority of the stories are either spec fic, slice of life stories that happen over the course of one night, or both. Switching between the two was very disconcerting, as I didn't necessarily know until part way through the story whether to be reading it for the people, or because something unusual was going to happen. As such, while the stories are strong, it doesn't work for me as an anthology. And this was even though I read several of the spec-fic stories ahead of the rest, because they were nominated for the Aurealis Award category for which I was a judge. The stand out stories for me are "I can see the ending" (Will Kostakis), "Oona Underground" (Lili Wilkinson), and "Last Night at the Mount Solemn Observatory" (Danielle Binks). One 'learning to be a psychic', one 'seeking fairies doesn't always give you happiness' and one 'growing up changes things'. Two are spec-fic, two are 'just one night'. Overall, this is a fascinating showcase of Australian YA writers, and the mercifully brief authors' bios at then end have given me a number of things to go looking for. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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