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A Matter of Days by Amber Kizer → Start Date: September 4th, 2013
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Aug 15, 2013 05:51PM
please join Jacquelyn and I if you can for this buddy read!!
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Yay! I really like this cover! :D Thanks for making the thread!
no prob! So many fun buddy reads! I can't wait! we'll be doing lots of reading together over the next few weeks! woohoo!! :D
Trisha wrote: "no prob! So many fun buddy reads! I can't wait! we'll be doing lots of reading together over the next few weeks! woohoo!! :D"I know! It is so exciting! :D I had to get a notebook to list all of my buddy reads! How do you remember all of yours?
lol have you seen my challenge thread??I'm really organized :D
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Trisha wrote: "lol have you seen my challenge thread??I'm really organized :D
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1..."
Oh wow! That is great! :D
it's the only way I can keep it all straight! LOL!
LOL! We have sooo many bunched up at the end of August and beginning of September!
we do! lol cramming it all in before everyone goes back to school :)
yeah! :D I am really excited! :)
Wow! I just ordered it from another library an hour ago and it is already in transit! WOW!
wow!!! Even the library is excited for you to get the book! ;P
LOL! I guess so! When I go to pick up all of these books I will look ridiculous carrying 8-10 books! But who cares? I LOVE BOOKS AND BUDDY READS! yay!!
Okay, just wanted to checkdo you still have time for this one Jacquelyn?
or do we want to move the date???
I can do it! :DI have heard soo many good things about this one! Since this one is semi short I will try and get a chunk of it done. You think you will too? Or are you taking this slow?
I plan to race right through it tomorrowit is short, so I'm hoping it won't take long
I've heard good things too! i can't wait!
Just do the 5 chapter check back?
Okay! We have the same plan! And absolutely! Tomorrow is my first full day of school but I am hoping to read lots after school! :D
Good luck tomorrow at school!I have 2 buddy reads starting tomorrow, so I will probably work on a couple of other books and then read this one after my girls get home from school :)
Thanks! And okay! That works perfect! We have so many awesome reads coming up!
wow"be the cockroach not the orchid"
what a horrible motivation line :(
Just a few chapters, I think before Day 57Blue Star sounds bad... Tuberculosis? Ugh, not good. Why did the mom die screaming???
and I thought it was sweet when Rabbit asked if Dad came to get mom. Since they were both gone now :( sweet but oh so so so sad....
are they 10 and 15? did I miss her age somewhere in there?
Oh and thank goodness for Uncle Bean. clearly he knows more than He's saying!!
What page is that? I am on page 22. And since I am on my phone I cannot read spoilers but I know Nadia is 16. And Rabbit is 11.
Day 56 goes until page 28.are you okay if I remove the spoiler tags. I didn't think you'd read it yet :)
what do you think so far?? The chapter you're in. It's about to reveal a bunch of stuff, just before the last few pages.
Yeah, you can remove the tags and I am going to finish those few pages now!
Wow. Blue star shaped bruises? Aghh. That last sentence have me the chills:"The fall of complete silence except for Mom's screams at the end..."
Are you liking it?
I am but am very curious and hope to get some answers soon! This is a standalone, correct?
Yes, stand alone (lol, so far!!)I know, but why was the mom screaming...
I need to google tuberculosis....
LOL! Soon enough there will be expected publication dates for book 2 and book 3! And I don't know! It just creeped me out!
And okay! If you find any interesting facts or anything share, share, share! ;D
I'm not gonna lie.this was NOT comforting
from Wiki:
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB (short for tubercle bacillus) is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis.[1] Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air.[2] Most infections are asymptomatic and latent, but about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of those so infected.
The classic symptoms of active TB infection are a chronic cough with blood-tinged sputum, fever, night sweats, and weight loss (the latter giving rise to the formerly prevalent term "consumption"). Infection of other organs causes a wide range of symptoms. Diagnosis of active TB relies on radiology (commonly chest X-rays), as well as microscopic examination and microbiological culture of body fluids. Diagnosis of latent TB relies on the tuberculin skin test (TST) and/or blood tests. Treatment is difficult and requires administration of multiple antibiotics over a long period of time. Social contacts are also screened and treated if necessary. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem in multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) infections. Prevention relies on screening programs and vaccination with the bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine.
One third of the world's population is thought to have been infected with M. tuberculosis,[3] with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year.[4] In 2007, there were an estimated 13.7 million chronic active cases globally,[5] while in 2010, there were an estimated 8.8 million new cases and 1.5 million associated deaths, mostly occurring in developing countries.[6] The absolute number of tuberculosis cases has been decreasing since 2006, and new cases have decreased since 2002.[6] The distribution of tuberculosis is not uniform across the globe; about 80% of the population in many Asian and African countries test positive in tuberculin tests, while only 5–10% of the United States population tests positive.[1] More people in the developing world contract tuberculosis because of compromised immunity, largely due to high rates of HIV infection and the corresponding development of AIDS.[7]
