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Overall, this was an entertaining read for me. I enjoyed reading the multiple perspectives, and the pace was enough to keep me turning the pages -- although some of it I found fairly predictable. I think it would be a great book for discussion, not tackling questions about whether you would want to know how long you have left to live, but also addressing the themes of discrimination woven throughout the book.

What if every adult in the world woke up and received a box with a string foretelling the length of their life? Would you open it? Timely and compelling, this book breaks your heart, but in the best way. Told from multiple perspectives, the writing is rich and beautiful with a life affirming resilience that will have me thinking for a long time. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BookspinBingo #JoyousJanuary #Pantone23 #empireyellow @TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65 @Clwojick

Feeling under the weather but at least I can read and snuggle up with my pups under my new bedding. #currentread

Finally my hold came in from the library tonight! ❤️ I have heard such good things and I‘m diving right in 🏊🏻‍♀️

#kindledeals #ebooksale

26% in and wondering if this is going to go anywhere unexpected? The premise is intriguing of course, I decidedly would NOT open the box. I am wondering if this would have been a powerful short story.

I‘ll hang in there for awhile yet.

Bumped this up my TBR because the e-book goes back tomorrow & the waitlist is still long. This book will have me thinking for a while. Would I open my box or not? Loved the different stories & POVs & although a bit alarming at times how it seems to mirror current events & the state of the world, that made it all the more absorbing & hard to put down. I got emotionally attached to several of the characters & found myself tearing up more than once.

It's raining here in So Cal again. I guess I have no other choice than to read.

What a shame...

Good. Follows eight people and their journey when they get strings in boxes and what they mean to them and the impact it has on their lives and their loved ones. Even though I enjoyed this I wish there had been more discovery about where the strings come from as at the start of the book there was a real promise but nothing came of it.

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Read this at my IRL book club- everyone enjoyed it and it led to GREAT discussion! We each had a box at our seat and there was a mix of people who opened theirs and people who didn‘t! We all loved Amy and Ben; disliked Jack and Anthony. Loved all the details the author included from North Korea‘s response to new versions of The Bachelor!

Just letting my team know that I just got this book today. It would have arrived earlier but we put a hold on our mail while we were out of town. I will be starting this tonight!

#round16 #groupC #LMPBC #litsymarkup
Going out soon: @smalldogs_bigbooks2419 @Bookwormjillk @suvata

#300kBirthdayGiveaway Happy Birthday @wanderinglynn ! A fellow Capricorn??? Congratulations on an amazing milestone and thank you for hosting such a generous giveaway. 🙌 I‘d love to read The Measure - so many littens had it as one of their 2022 favs.

A fantastic plot!! I loved the connections between the characters, they‘re not all direct but they are all linked. Then end came but didn‘t feel hurried, although I‘d love more detail on Jack and his uncle instead of the gloss over they were given. Book #82 in 2022

This book had a lot of parallels with our recent events and gave me a lot to think about. Great pick for #LMPBC

I‘ll get this in the mail the second temps rise above freezing!

So excited about my #jolabokaflodswap gift! Thanks @AmyG ! I‘ve been dying to read this book and the chocolates will be the perfect accompaniment 😍 Thanks for hosting this fun, @MaleficentBookDragon ! Merry Christmas and happy reading, all!

Discrimination, exclusion, privilege, ignorance, corruption, division, kindness, compassion, courage, sacrifice, friendship, love, life, and death all rolled into this wonderful fantasy of a story.
I didn‘t think I would cry.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From me. I loved the premise of this book. I loved how all of the characters were connected to each other. The different perspectives transitioned smoothly & moved the story along. The short chapters made it a quick read. I absolutely recommend this one. A thought-provoking, insightful book.

🌟DNF
Replaces the pandemic with strings that measure your life and mimics all the bad behaviors and politics surrounding it. I just can‘t relive that time. I need ESCAPE from it all!

LOVE love love this book! So thought-provoking and really makes you reflect on if you would open your box or not. This one follows each character through each chapter and the connections were really special. One of my favorites so far this year!

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@suvata has mailed a book to @Bookwormjillk

• Read in November 2022 for #LMPBC Round 16 - Group C

It seems like any day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy.

World‘s adult population (why no kids? Too messy to tackle short lives for children?) receives boxed strings signifying the length of their lives. What to do with this info personally, politically, socially? Discrimination, surveillance, civil unrest. Somewhat surface exploration, characters all young/middle-aged professionals—if global phenom, more people from different backgrounds? But a good party question: “would you open your box?” 2022

Audiobooking this one thanks to @Cinfhen 🙌🏼🎧😊

and enjoying it all immensely, the intriguing story, the exercise with my girl Zelda 🐾🐾 and the gorgeous crisp but sunny fall weather 🍁☀️✨

This was better than I expected. I‘d call it “dystopia light”. If you liked Midnight Library, you‘d enjoy it.

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs
1. I usually read one or two fiction books and one nonfiction book at at time.
2. The Measure was a book as soon as I finished I told every person I know to read! A book I bailed on was When We Were Bright and Beautiful just was not interesting enough for me. Meh.

This has a fascinating premise though the story didn't play out quite the way I expected. It was less about how such a thing has happened and more how do we respond now that it has. Sadly, many of the responses felt all too *predictable. I enjoyed seeing most of the stories play out although I did feel the book lost steam in the last third. I liked it but would have loved a stronger ending.
(*not a criticism of the book but of humans)

Finished it right where I started it. Enjoying another 78 degree October day in Minnesota. This book was so good. It makes me wonder….Would I open my box?? I think it‘s one of those questions you can‘t truly answer unless the choice is a reality. I would have read this in a day if life hadn‘t gotten in the way.
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Spending a little time with this one on my deck this morning. There won‘t be too many more mornings like this in Minnesota until next spring so I‘m taking advantage of the sunshine

#LMPBC Round 16 - Group C
@Bookwormjillk @vonnie862 @smalldogs_bigbooks2419 @suvata

I think these are our final choices. If I‘m wrong about any of them, please let me know. Happy reading! 🍁

#LMPBC Round 16 - Group C
@Bookwormjillk @vonnie862 @smalldogs_bigbooks2419 @suvata

Any interest in one of these books?

What would you change if you knew the date of your death? If you knew the date of your partner‘s death? Would you change the way you work? The way you love? Would it change the way you saw others or what you felt entitled to? In this book everyone in the world receives strings that measure the length of their lives and suddenly nothing is the same. Thought provoking and emotional, I thought this was so well done and excellent on audio.

The Measure follows multiple characters as they deal with the knowledge of the length of their life remaining. One day everyone worldwide over the age of 22 receives a box with a string showing the length of their life and from his point people are separated into two groups the short strings and long strings. The book was emotional and really made you think.

This has one of the best premises I have heard in a long time. One day everyone in the world awakens to a box with a string inside that determines the length of the person‘s life. The author glides over the how and why the strings appeared, and gets right to describing the fallout from this information. The book shifts between the various characters‘ perspectives and raises many questions. Excellent for book club discussions.

Wow this one gutted me in the end. Deserves the hype and I see why Jenna picked it for her book club. How would you live your life if you knew how long you would be here?

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Started listening 🎧yesterday can not 🛑 I‘m 95%💗💗💗💗

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

☀️ I think it would have to be The Measure by Nikki Erlick!

☀️ I really loved the characters, but my favorite aspect of the book was actually the questions it made me ask myself! I did a lot of introspective thinking while reading it, and I'm still thinking about it even after I've finished the book!

Thank you for the tag @RaeLovesToRead ! 💕📚

New book rec videos are up for the week! I am REALLY excited to share my thoughts on The Measure by Nikki Erlick! I know I'll be thinking about that one for a long time! 📖 💛 Please give them a watch and a like! I appreciate it greatly! 📚 😃

YA Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2CJbnbHEdY&t=31s

Adult Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqx59CuXiP4&t=23s

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This book has received so much praise and I can understand because there's a lot about it that I truly loved. However, about midway through I just got a little tired of "the strings" and wished the author had chosen something a little more substantial to be in the box.

I loved the premise though and the exploration of prejudices that arise when the boxes are discovered.

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The Measure, by Nikki Erlick, is a dystopian novel in which every adult unexplainably receives a box holding a measure of string that correlates with the length of the owner's life. Some choose to look at their string, others are forced to look, and some never look. The eight characters' lives all intertwine, in far-fetched ways. A great impetus for discussion about mortality, but the characters and book could have been stronger. 3.5

This debut starts with all the characters and everyone in the world receiving a box with a lone string inside. Each string are of different lengths. It doesn‘t take long for the world to realize that the length of the string is the length of the recipient‘s life. Soon after there is prejudice against those with short strings. This read real gives me the feelings of the political climate of 2020.

I just got my book today. Just read to page 20 and realizing how stressed and terrified I am already 🤣

I liked this. Was concerned it might be a bit sentimental for my mood, but it mostly wasn't. I really liked the characters and enjoyed their interconnections (which often gave me Love Actually vibes, but not in the cringey way). Lovely Julia Whelan narration.

If you had the chance to learn how long your life will be...would you take it?

This book is amazing so far! 💕📚 I have a feeling I'll be thinking about long after I've finished!

#catsoflitsy #rumpel

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Wow. Very heavy topic. Fantastic read!

I loved this book so much. At first I was worried about the concept but once I started reading I couldn‘t put it down. This book really shows how so many lives and people are strung together and you don‘t even realize it.

Read with Jenna picks are usually winners for me, and this one is no exception. It‘s a really interesting look at human relationships and time and how divisive we can be when we feel threatened. The connections between the characters at the end felt a little forced for my liking, BUT it‘s a book about “strings,” thus connections and I get it. An absolute pick in my book! 🌟

😭😭😭😭😭😭⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ what a beautiful thought-provoking book it filled me up with so many emotions I can't even describe it.

The little one first day back to school 🎒 so I have time to read this morning before work.

Dinner time with a book