Game Changer

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I did not appreciate the content of any of Ash's revelations. He apparently is no longer under the veil of ignorance. It is Ash who can save us all. Thankfully, we have him to explain the experience of women, people of color, and queer people. WHAT?!

Thirteen-year-old Teddy is in a coma after a serious head injury. While incapacitated, rumors begin going around about what really caused his injuries. Zum einen der Rassentrennung, die plötzlich wieder Alltag ist, das Thema freie Liebe und Diskriminierung der Geschlechter und die damit einhergehenden Vorurteile. Schlussendlich sind es WIR SELBST die es in der Hand haben unsere Welt zu ändern und nicht das Universum ;-) The thinking patterns were brilliantly illustrated even utilizing facts surrounding us in our body hormones such as cortisol, estrogens, and testosterones, which we understand around all of our life time with Doctors, and like.

Game Changer by Neal Shusterman – My Review

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Bis jetzt hört sich das einfach an wie ein normaler Fantasy-Thriller, oder? Allerdings wäre das kein Buch von Neal Shusterman, wenn es nicht gleichzeitig um sehr ernste Themen ginge. Es geht hier um Privilegien, die man sich oft gar nicht bewusst ist, wenn man sie hat. Ich meine: Ich denke kaum darüber nach, dass ich weiß bin. Meine Hautfarbe spielt in meinem Leben keine Rolle. Gleichzeitig aber doch, denn sie bewahrt mich vor Problemen und Diskriminierung. Und Ash ist da ziemlich ähnlich. In der Theorie weiß er, dass er privilegiert ist. Aber so richtig bewusst wird ihm das erst im Laufe der Handlung. There were so many weird instances, I’m not gonna even try to discuss them all here. Although, again, there were meaningful ideas buried under all the unnecessary, weird stuff. I felt like the author was really pushing to say something important, but he couldn’t quite clear his thoughts, so it all came out a bit incoherent. He tried to talk about some very serious issues that should hit close to home, but everything was exaggerated and therefore didn’t seem genuine.

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The tough thing is that this is exactly how many of us do learn about our privilege, by having it pointed out to us by people whose identities we don't share, or by entering spaces where our identities are not glorified in the way that we're used to. At its best, Game Changer explores the way that our universe changes all the time, even without the help of multidimensional beings. We learn something new about ourselves or about each other, we get a little less selfish and a little more curious, and suddenly we're able to see the world anew. As a teacher of mostly white students in an overwhelmingly white state, I am constantly on the lookout for stories that will help my white students start this process without unfairly burdening students of color, and I can absolutely appreciate Game Changer as an effort in the right direction, imperfect though it may be. And I'm grateful that Shusterman is the one writing this story, which, like all his books, is face-paced and animated by compelling and believable young people even if it does sometimes feel like a vehicle for an afterschool special. I will buy this book for my classroom when it is published, as I do all of Shusterman's novels. Lo que no me ha gustado demasiado es que el deporte tiene demasiada importancia. Por ejemplo, todo está explicado a través de la jerga del futbol americano y a mi que ni me va ni me viene ese tema pues me ha terminando cansando un poco. También creo que todo el tema de los viajes por el multiverso se podría haber aprovechado un poco más y haber dado mas giros a la trama o que pasase algo verdaderamente emocionante.

Because by the end of the book, I didn’t feel like Ash really learned all that much. Though many of the problematic things he got to experience first-hand, it felt more as if he were watching a movie showing all the horrible things that are not all that likely to happen, but potentially could, given a chance. Game Changer is Autobiography of a star quoted as "Kid Dynamite" from australian press and "Boom Boom" from Ravi Shastri.

Game Changer is like one of those Shusterman's first novels. It reads like Speeding Bullet, Downsiders, etc. Ein bisschen hat es mich an "Die Mitternachtsbibliothek" von Matt Haig erinnert. Hier möchte ja die Protagonistin Nora Selbstmord begehen - doch anstatt dass sie stirbt, soll sie die vielen Möglichkeiten kennenlernen, wie es ihr in anderen Leben mit anderen Entscheidungen ergangen wäre. Bei Haig war alles sehr kurz und wurde nur angeschnitten, bei Ash und seinen "Sprüngen" nimmt sich der Autor schon die Zeit, damit man als Leser sieht wie die Veränderungen auf ihn wirken. Auch erkennt Ash Zusammenhänge und denkt über vieles nach, beginnt hinter die Fassaden zu schauen, was auch seine Beziehungen zu seinen Eltern und seinem Bruder betrifft, was er hier wieder sehr schön beschreibt: The idea that the universe centers on this kid - with this particular set of identities - is fine (if a little too real), but his "wise" pontifications and his young mansplaining of everything from what felt like the perspective of a great grandpa on a porch swing was weird and creepy to me. Sometimes, I get essays from very new college students that include the word "Nowadays," and this odd juxtaposition of a young but falsely wise speaker gave me strong "Nowadays" vibes: very bad. Spreadsheet performance in Microsoft Excel is up to 3.5x faster than the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with Core i7, 3 and up to 40 percent faster than the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with M1. 2

As a screen and TV writer, Neal has written for the "Goosebumps" and “Animorphs” TV series, and wrote the Disney Channel Original Movie “Pixel Perfect”. Currently Neal is adapting his novel Everlost as a feature film for Universal Studios.For now, I will add that while I have thoroughly enjoyed many of Shusterman’s previous works, this one really rubbed me the wrong way. I will get into detail about why in the forthcoming review, but I do not recommend this novel, even to incoming fans of this author. Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips, making the world’s best pro laptop even better Just finished reading this recently released memoir of Shahid Afridi. I don't usually review books here but I have a lot to say about this one: Of What Daddy Did, Voice of Youth Advocates wrote; "This is a compelling, spell-binding story... A stunning novel, impossible to put down once begun. There was just something about this book that felt good, something that worked for me, but for the life of me I cannot tell what that something was. I guess it was a bit like watching a movie from the 90s. You get that what you’re watching is not state of the art. But it feels good and a bit nostalgic and you end up having a better time than you expected.