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Welcome to Open Book: The Seventeen Book Club! If you are an avid reader and can’t stop seeing #BookTok videos pop up on your FYP, then you’re in the right place. Here at Seventeen, we believe that books are magical, transformative devices that hold the ability to introduce us to new places, cultures, and ideas. They maintain the capacity to explore beautiful stories about a range of topics, including first love, friendship, family, race, and identity. While exploring important subjects such as love, loss, identity, and race, the best young adult books tell stories that often impart poignant life lessons. So, where do you start in adding to your TBR list for the rest of the year? There are tons of titles, but we’ve narrowed it down for you. Here are the best and most anticipated young adult books of 2023. The plot is just crazy enough to make you wonder how real some of these roles and events are. Are all the characters and individual events believable? Not really. Is the overall plot just crazy enough to make you question how real it is? You bet it is! To anyone who's worked in an office (particularly in media) there is a lot you'll recognize here. The push and pull of one team vs another. Layout has a grudge against Editorial, who likewise don't find Layout's work all that important compared with their own. It's like this over and over, with Yuuki butting heads with practically everyone at the paper, as they each care more about their own job or their own agenda than the big story that Yuuki has to care about more than anything else.
ow. This was an immersive and utterly compelling read. Though billed as a mystery, it isn’t really; it is literary fiction, and damned fine literary fiction at that. Not that classification matters when a book is as good as this one.What follows is an intense procedural novel about how the news coverage is put together. Yuuki assigns reporters to specific stories, determines which stories go where, navigates the difficult office politics of a paper where the managing director is battling for dominance with the chairman, and anxiously waits for the stories to make it in to the paper before the presses have to roll. And he tries to sneak out of the office now and again to visit his friend's bedside, where he takes Anzai's son under his wing.
The story is brilliantly crafted and narrated with dry humour that had me laughing out loud one minute and my heart in my throat the next. It’s the first time that I can say this about a thriller!
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The short chapters were perfect for keeping the pace and the action going. I would find myself reading in bed and doing the whole ‘just one more chapter’ thing about 6 times before I realise how much I am going to hate myself in the morning from staying up too late. On the day that Yuuki was scheduled to meet his best friend, Anzai, and go on a short climbing holiday, a plane crashes into the mountains, killing over 500 people. As the senior reporter for a local provincial paper, Yuuki stays in the office and is put in charge of the paper's coverage of the crash. Anzai also doesn't make it to the meeting point. He collapses on a city street and is taken to the hospital where he lays in a coma.
Despite the protagonist, who may seemed as a failed journalist and father at the beginning, the author successfully touched the human side of Yuuki - he felt so real and human afterall. In the afterword, Gibson highlights the need for “women who sexually abuse within organisational contexts to more fully understand the characteristics of this particular type of abuse”, but here Miss P remains a frustrating enigma.This story is based on true events that the author participated in as a young reporter for a regional Japanese newspaper. In 1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (JAL 123) crashed into a mountain 60 miles north of Tokyo, killing 520 people. That tragedy remains the greatest number of people ever killed due to a single aircraft disaster anywhere in the world. Swimsuits belong at waterside, not in the street. There’s no excuse for placing oneself on display.” I had difficulty focusing in the beginning of Seventeen. Yokoyama takes his sweet time setting the stage and I’m not quite sure for awhile why I’m supposed to care about Yuuki and these people. Only as he begins to reveal things about the coverage of the crash, about Yuuki’s life, about the existence of journalism, and the fragile nature of families did I began to fall deeper and deeper into the story. This is being billed as a thriller but in so many ways, it’s not just not a thriller but almost an anti-thriller, not in a sense that it moves too fast but because it takes the pieces of a thriller and grinds them to reveal the story. I don’t know many writers who have this kind of specific talent. Here are all the small decisions that make a huge impact on coverage and circulation; the big editorial decisions that make or break the reputation of those in charge; the tensions between advertising, circulation and editorial and in the midst of this, one man, Yuuki, struggling to make sense of it all.
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