But for me, the cover was the only positive about this book. I love the dark background with the shadowy couple and white title. Sometimes when I feel younger than my 37 years it’s nice to go back to that teenage angst and know I made it past that! Reece is a junior Thank you NetGalley, Evernight Publishing and Susan Marshall for letting me read “Double Negative” in exchange for an honest review.
This is clearly a YA book and I knew that when requesting it.
Thank you NetGalley, Evernight Publishing and Susan Marshall for letting me read “Double Negative” in exchange for an honest review. In the end, the protagonist comes to an important realization-that, in life, “Perfection was overrated.” An often humorous and insightful story of teens becoming self-aware young adults.”.
Kirkus Reviews: “The strong characterizations make the main players’ behavior realistic… The action and exposition come at a fast clip. "Highly recommended." CM: Canadian Review of Materials Struggling with issues of family loyalty, secrets and scars, Reece must decide if real relationships are worth the heartache. And suddenly everything that is important to Reece starts to implode. That is until Zain drops a bombshell about his accident. Between Zain’s disability and Reece’s surgery, they have their challenges but that makes their connection deeper.
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Zain is hot and intense, plus an amputee and a basketball star. She knew that Jamie-who led off his campaign with a strip-tease “election speech”-would be a complete “President Dumbass.” But what Reece didn’t foresee was that she’d fall, and hard, for Jamie’s student council rival, Zain. It was her brother Jamie’s idea and just something to do until she could get back into the pool. Injured competitive swimmer, Reece never wanted to be Vice Prez of West Hill High. She knew that Jamie-who led off his campaign with a strip-tease “election speech”-would be a complete “President Dumbass.” But what Reece didn’t for "Often humorous and insightful."-Kirkus Reviews The remote site is accessible via a network of rough, unpaved roads."Often humorous and insightful."-Kirkus Reviews Injured competitive swimmer, Reece never wanted to be Vice Prez of West Hill High. In 1984, Dwan gifted the piece to the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MoCA) with the condition, imposed by the artist, that MoCA allow nature to reclaim the land through weather and erosion. Among the earliest installations in the “land art” movement, Double Negative set the precedent for a wide range of diverse works that would follow. Taken together, the opposing rectilinear trenches create a visible void, which, in counterpoint to the irregular mesa edge and natural valley, is distinctly sculptural. The ends of the steeply sided trenches slope 45 degrees to the desert floor. Debris from the trenches deposited into the chasm visually extends the axis across the expanse. The northern cut measures approximately 220 feet in length while the southern cut measures 320 feet. Functioning to both separate and unite Heizer’s sculpture, a naturally occurring chasm measuring approximately 900 feet across stretches between the two trenches. Using dynamite and a bulldozer to remove 240,000 tons of sandstone and rhyolite, thus exposing the site’s sedimentary geology, Heizer created a linear void 50 feet deep, 30 feet wide, and 1,500 feet long. Funded by art patron Virginia Dwan and excavated by local real estate developer and heavy equipment operator Bryant Robison, the installation consists of two parallel trenches dug at an almost exact north-south trajectory on a cross-axis to the natural escarpment. Located on 60 acres amidst wide valleys and mesas in the Moapa Valley, approximately 65 miles northeast of Las Vegas, artist Michael Heizer conceived of this “negative sculpture” in 1969 and completed it a year later.
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