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Kerem Mermutlu

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Young Adult, Short Stories

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Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Suzanne Collins, Meg Rosoff, Kelly Link, [...more

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About this author

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Kerem Mermutlu has worked as a bookseller in London, as well as teaching English as a foreign language in Japan and Taiwan. Kerem writes young adult fiction and 'My Last Summer' (June 25th 2011) is his first novel. It's been described as 'a catcher in the rye for Asia' and is available in paperback and for Kindle and all other ebook formats.

His new book 'Small Little Things' is a collection of 100 short stories, taken from his blog. Readers from over 91 countries worldwide have read Kerem's short stories, which he writes one a day, every day.

The stories are about listening to buildings, not fitting in, trying to escape from your stupid little town, and generally trying to understand things when everything is falling apart. The stories are...more

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Average rating: 4.00 · 7 ratings · 6 reviews · 2 distinct works

	My Last Summer 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Small Little Things 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:

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Short Story Number Five Hundred and Seventy Eight (Select)

0 chapters — updated Sep 26, 2011 10:55pm

Description: You tell me to stop looking at your socks but your socks are pink and blue and kind of beautiful. Your face is kind of awesome too. You say you’re not that pretty but I say you are stunning. You make everything better and when the world ends, when everything falls away and there’s nothing left, I will be standing next you. I will be holding you. And I will have my eyes on your eyes until everything is gone.

Short Story Number Five Hundred and Seventy Nine (Select)

1 chapters — updated Sep 26, 2011 10:54pm

Description: I have nothing left to do in school because all the exams are over so I go outside and forget about my parents and my problems and my friends and I walk around for a while. I look at the sky for a bit and stare at some cars that are nice and shiny. I walk around and don’t feel anything. And then I start to feel that everything is useless and broken. That I’m an idiot. And that maybe I should have been more friendly to you or something. I think about your hands. Your small and fragile hands.

Kerem is Currently Reading

Kerem Mermutlu is currently reading:

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by David Wroblewski

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May 26, 2012 08:09pm

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1Q84: Book 1 and Book 2

by Haruki Murakami

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Feb 18, 2012 12:05am

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

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Jan 23, 2012 06:17am

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Kerem Mermutlu is on page 30 of 566 of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski progress:	My rating:
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Kerem Mermutlu is currently reading: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski	My rating:
May 26, 2012 08:09pm
Kerem Mermutlu gave to: Grouped: How Small Groups of Friends Are the Key to Influence on the Social Web by Paul Adams (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
Interesting read about about the internet and social networks, a little bit annoying about how it always mentions facebook all the time though. The idea that we are in the '3rd' stage of the internet is a good one- basically our lives are now being t...more
May 22, 2012 06:35am · see review
Kerem Mermutlu gave to: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
This is fantastic!! If you have a project or are trying to write a novel, or just generally trying to figure out why you procrastinate so much, then this will tell you why. If you love reading people like Seth Godin then you will enjoy this. Really g...more
May 18, 2012 09:12pm · see review
Kerem Mermutlu gave to: Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman read in May, 2012	My rating:
I'm afraid i couldn't finish this. The first 50 pages were amazing, loved the voice, loved the style of writing, the pace, everything. But then it just didn't really go anywhere. The story just fell apart. And i'm not really sure why. Perhaps i just...more
May 18, 2012 09:10pm · see review
Kerem Mermutlu marked as to-read: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle	My rating:
Apr 23, 2012 06:47am
Kerem Mermutlu marked as to-read: Meat Heart by Melissa Broder (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Kerem Mermutlu marked as to-read: When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother by Melissa Broder (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Quotes by Kerem Mermutlu

“I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.”
― Kerem Mermutlu, My Last Summer

tags: coming-of-age , teen , young-adult-fiction

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“I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what replaced it was like a sad kind of wondering. A wondering of where the old me was hiding. A wondering about where the old me had gone to. It was like I had suddenly been taken over by someone else and they could see the old me had fallen away for good.”
― Kerem Mermutlu, My Last Summer

tags: coming-of-age-stories , teen , young-adult-fiction

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“Something else you should really know about me. When I get nervous, my fingers shake. I’ve noticed this a lot recently. When mother and father argue and their voices are falling around the small family apartment, when their voices are banging against my bedroom door, I can feel my fingers start to move. I tell my fingers to stop and, sometimes, they do. But if I look at my hands closely, once I’ve told them to stop, and I try to focus on keeping them as still as possible, I notice that they are still moving.”
― Kerem Mermutlu, My Last Summer

tags: teen , young-adult-fiction

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