Acaba Este Libro

by Keri Smith

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Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Writing, Journal, Creative, Journaling, Self Help

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First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Keri Smith is an author/illustrator turned guerilla artist. She has several bestselling books, including Wreck This Journal, This is Not a Book, How To Be An Explorer of the World, Mess, Finish this Book, and The Wander Society all published by Penguin Books. Read more at her website http://WWW.KERISMITH.COM
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Reviews

[Reba Reads · Rating 1 out of 5]

I could not finish it. Ironic.

[Anna Bear]

I dont like the decoders. They have been pissing me off for 2 days. I might quit the book for that reason alone since the instructions specifically tell me not to skip ahead and if i cant do the task to pass it along to someone who can.

[Ilze · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I first laid my hands on this book I was extremely excited about it: another book to keep me occupied/give ideas! Another that I don't necessarily have to read from cover to cover, but can scribble in too (I happen to enjoy that kind of thing). The problem with the book is that Smith draws you in and then drags out the "suspense" to the extent that you KNOW you're being conned into something! It's all well and good to try and copy a Narnia idea, with childhood fantasies and the like, but as an adult, there are certain limits to what you can do. Rather than encourage me to write, this book actually put me off. It consists of things I fantasised about when I was a teenager (when I created a club, along with badges, secret signs, the lot) - that's all passé! Perhaps Smith thinks it's possible to recreate that kind of thing and I agree there was the occasional spark of delight in these pages, but not enough for me to follow through with it. It's an almost Julia Cameron-make-believe fallen flat. That said, here's my park bench (right at the beginning of the book):

[Freda Mans-Labianca · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a fun book, and creative on so many levels.
You literally go through the book doing tasks to help "finish the book". At first I wondered where it would all lead, but all good things must come to an end. And it did.
It took a while to get there, and some serious work on my part, but it was worth it. I learned a lot about exploration and collecting and did some ponderous thinking throughout the book. I really love books that challenge you or your mind.
I don't think everyone will have the patience to actually go through the book and do every task, some do seem tedious, but they are there for a reason.

[Batoul · Rating 1 out of 5]

مافهمت شيء.. لا الهدف ولا الفكرة

نجمتين لانو التقليب فيه ممتع وفي جواته رسومات لطيفة 😂

[Andréia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review in portuguese by blog MON PETIT POISON

Seguindo a linha parecida com seu livro anterior, a autora de ‘Termine Este Livro’ volta com um novo projeto, onde os leitores poderão interagir com o livro e nesse processo descobrir mais de si mesmo. Dividido em 4 partes (Treinamento de Espionagem, Métodos de Documentação e Observação, Procedimento de Exame de Artefatos e Manual de Intruções), o livro trás em cada uma de suas páginas ideias, sugestões, informações onde você deverá completar objetivos e/ou tarefas.

Enquanto em ‘Destrua Este Diário’ a ideia era fazer o que ninguém faz em um livro – destruir, rabiscar, criar – aqui, podemos chamar este livro de uma espécie de ‘caderno de atividades’, talvez os com mais de 30 anos e sem filhos não se lembrem disso, mas os mais novos vão se lembrar disso, eram aqueles livrinhos onde a criança precisa pintar, seguir a linha, marcar os diferentes e etc, porém adaptado para os mais velhos.

O livro segue a ideia de missão e não se deve pular as páginas, o ideal é fazer uma página de cada vez na ordem, sem datas limites e evitar compartilhar seu progresso (exceto se pedir), principalmente porque a percepção de todo mundo é diferente e acredito que não compartilhar faz com que nenhum livro fique igual ao outro.

Para quem curte essas ideias de metas, desafios, querer se conhecer um pouco mais, acho que vale a pena, pode a principio parecer uma coisa boba e sem graça, mas acredito que no final de tudo a gente passe a se conhecer mais, saber exatamente do que gostamos ou não e a nossa percepção das coisas, imagino relendo esse livro daqui uns 5/10 anos e vendo se mudei ou não e onde.

O livro possui um site especial (clique aqui), então se você quiser ver algumas coisas, essa é a chance. Eu já comecei, mas ainda não está tão bacaninha para mostrar, mas fica de olho no instagram do blog que pode pintar umas ideias/sugestões por lá ;)

http://www.monpetitpoison.com/2014/10...

[The Reading Countess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Originally introduced to Keri Smith by a colleague, I struck upon this particular title and ordered it in hopes of encouraging my once enthusiastic writer of a middle son.

"I hate writing," he announced a few weeks ago in the car.

"Wha??" I asked while skillfully maneuvering the car away from the guardrail.

"Yeah. My teacher makes us follow all sorts of rules and we HAVE to brainstorm a certain way. If we don't, then she gets mad. I used to be able to fill pages and pages up with my stories. Now I hate it."

So I ordered Finish This Book with hopes of filling both my son's as well as my student's writing buckets.

Now, after reading Finish This Book, I can see the value of Smith's creative homage in my middle son's life this summer. For my own students, though, I would pick and choose carefully.

Some plums for middle grade writers:
-we are skilled observers (look at and document the world as such): use old photos as a warm up activity
-instruction manual: have an old, beat up journal with that title and an emblem of a tree as mini lesson spring boards from me
-curiosity is key to being a skilled writer: gift wrapped box as writing warm up

As a parent, I enjoyed the naturalistic approach Finish This Book took. As a teacher, I plan on revisiting it again with sticky notes in hand.

It's a quick read worthy of any ELA teacher's attention this summer. Want to rejuvenate your writing instruction or think about showing who we are as writers to reluctant ones?

Pick it up.

[Evelyn Torres · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cuando este libro llego a mis manos sinceramente no sabia que esperar, lo habia visto en muchos canales de youtube españa y la realidad es que los libros de Keri Smith me gusta mucho.

A comparacion de otros titulos de la autora, este libro en particular creo que es un poco mas estructurado porque nos cuenta una historia de la que nosotros somos parte ya que tenemos que terminarla, por lo tanto no podes ir salteando hojas como en otros libros.

La idea general del libro la verdad es que me gusto mucho, me parecio muy entretenida y una muy buena opcion como primer libro para "leer" de Keri Smith.

Como siempre la idea del libro es explorar la creatividad y divertirse, objetivos que se cumplen perfectamente.

[Amy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I randomly found this book while I was at Barnes & Noble and immediately got excited. I thought I had found a unique and fun interactive book. As most people would be I considered skipping to the end of the book and seeing what the surprise was, but instead decided to buy it and do it right. I should have just skipped to the end. The books builds you up for a mystery that isn't there, in the end it just promotes tree hugging and making a fort in the woods. Sure I see the goal in maybe tryng to bring the reader back to their childhood and imagination, but I think it was utterly lacking.

[Chule · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly recommendable. Smith will make you feel like a real secret agent trying to solve a mystery, but not until you finish your training! I haven't finished it yet but I'm looking forward to it.

[أمة · Rating 2 out of 5]

روح الاستكشاف إما موجودة أو مفقودة. إذا كنت تفكر أن تشتري هذا الكتاب لتهديه لطفل أو بالغ، وفر على نفسك و ابحث عن هواية geocaching أو هواية urbex / الاستكشاف المدني.
خذ رحلة. إذهب في نزهة، إفعل أي شيء مختلف اليوم و ستكون أنجزت ما يريده منك هذا الكتاب دون أن تمل.

المشكلة باختصار: كتاب عن الاستكشاف و الابداع يجبرك على اتباع تسلسل الصفحات و ينتهي بسيناريو ممل و متوقع. فيه أنشطة جيدة لكن أنت و حظك إذا بقيت مستيقظًا بعد ملل تمارين تشفير المبتدئين. أفضل شيء في الكتاب قائمة الكتب المنصوح بها في النهاية

(Trees of North America by Brockman and Marrilees, Tom Brown's Field Guide to Living with the Earth, Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature by Young, Haas and McGown, Mountaineering Essays by Muir, Tracking and Trailing by Thompson, and the Norton Book of Nature Writing.)


ربما كان ليعجبني لو كنت أصغر؟
لا أنصح به.

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was a really fun book and i liked most of the instructions but some really gave me a headache😭 I loved the end and altogether i totally recommend it

[Amir · Rating 2 out of 5]

ممتع في بدايته ولكنه يصبح معقد وغريب، اعتقد انني ساكمله يومًا ما! لطيف لمحاولة الرسم والتعبير عن المشاعر.

[Manuela · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought I'm old enough so I should take myself seriously. Happy this book proved me wrong. It's a great way to recover my imagination and relief stress

[Jay The Crippled God · Rating 5 out of 5]

at the start of this book i thought it is serious. only to discover that it's a kids book.
but to be honest i really enjoyed it. i haven't finished it all but it's a funny book.
i wish i could give it to my child someday. a good usage of time for a kid. ;)
i enjoyed being a 5 years old kid once more at this age ;)

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been working on this book for a couple years, fitting in tasks when the time is right. This is not meant to be a pick-and-choose task book, but a sequence. I'm sure I'll have more fun as I continue. :)

[SmarterLilac · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet and fun. I'm not sure I'm the intended audience, but I'm thinking of attempting to build my own secret playhouse anyway. (In other words, this is something plenty of adults could learn to love.)

[Lindsay Ball]

Ok so I'm doing this book, and its fun, but how long is the training?!?!?!?

[Heather]

rummage sale find

[Freyja · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had fun, even if I was a lone adventurer all throughout the Finish This Book experience. Ha, ha.

[Julia Nashif · Rating 3 out of 5]

To enjoy this book's potential, you should probably be a kid who lives by a forest. Not me. This was still fun though, and I did enjoy some of the training.

[Soy Barroar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lo compré pensando que era de suspenso y resultó ser un libro para niños pequeños... Ni modo

[Pavel Beneš · Rating 5 out of 5]

Skvělé! Keri Smith nutí k blbnutí, ze kterého máte radost.

[Nada Osama Fouad · Rating 3 out of 5]

نوعاً ما مسلي ولكن مطلعش كما أتوقع
وصلت لأكتر من نصه ولكن بعدها مكملتهوش

[Elizabeth Dunn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would enjoy the book if the end of the clue actually worked. LFpupblishingco.com website doesn't work anymore and I can't finish that page. bummer :/

[Mathew Andreazza · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is an activity book for adults, and that would be fine if the book had advertised itself as such.

The problem is that the book advertises itself as a "mystery" to be solved, telling us that we as readers and co-authors are going to "continue the research and provide the content". Instead of presenting us with a mystery and providing us with the clues and in-universe 'research' to solve it, this book trains us in 'sleuthing' and then ends up giving us a number of activities to complete. There is no mystery. I was expecting some sort of detective book where we are the detective.

Instead we are tasked with taking a picture of our hand and then writing down all the things we might have touched with that hand. That is not a mystery, nor research. This is an activity.

Additionally the book has a number of errors, like text referring to pages on the left when they are in fact on the right. As some other reviewers have pointed out, the book gives us a number of coded messages to decode. One of them has a typo in it when solved because it has not been encoded properly.

I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if I knew it was an activity book from the get-go.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has a promising premise: drawing the reader in through a mystery. However, the reveal of the instruction manual is less than exciting and does not draw you in further. I did finish the book however, many of the activities required too much effort to complete. I did not feel write littering (leaving a note in a tree) or drawing faces on things in a park so I was left to do this at home. Also, if you want to complete a book on your own, this is not the book for you as it makes you interview others and entertain the prospect of sharing you 'secret club' with others. I wish it has more decoding activities, that the secret society was more interesting, and that the activities involved were more thought out and linked to the rest of the book. For example, it required you to gather a notebook, though this was unnecessary as you could take notes in the book itself. It also made you post photos of yourself in disguise which can make you feel ridiculous and is a waste of the material it takes to print the photos. I did like the decoding though.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Spoiler: this book (literally) smacked me in the head

You know, this book could have been amazing if it was marketed correctly. I don't know what I was expecting and, as it tells you not to proceed unless you have completed the activities, I was ready to be surprised. But this is everything but a book you need to complete. It's a guide to exploring nature at best. Which is not a bad thing... but not what I was promised.
I was going to give it three stars, then remembered that it quite literally physically hurt me. When I was still trying to do the activities, it suggested to do everyday activites with your eyes closed. I was like, why not? I went to get a sweater in the closet, I reached out with my hands and figured that the closet door was closed. It wasn't, I just had one arm one each side of it. I walked straight into it and banged by head. Is it my fault? Yes, but imagine telling people why I had this massive bruise on my forehead.

[Astrid · Rating 3 out of 5]

La verdad creí que sería similar a “Destroza este diario”, pero no fue así. Es un libro que te induce a una aventura y, por esa razón, me gustó tener esa aventura durante todo el año. El libro se puede convertir en algo tedioso en ocasiones.
Pude convivir con mi familia, mi novio y mis amigos un poquito más gracias a las instrucciones del libro. Fue entretenido, pero algo soso. Igual, me divertí.

[ella ☆ any pronouns · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fun book from Keri Smith's that I really enjoyed. I enjoy her books a lot as they're all just for pure fun and are not serious whatsoever.

This is a great book for whenever you're bored or just need something to take up or pass time for whatever the reason may be.