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By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters

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kice7788's review against another edition

5.0

This was my second time reading this and I still love it! great book to deal with bulling! Julie anne peters is such a great author and truly knows how to make people feel the exact emotions the characters are feeling.

scearceka's review against another edition

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5.0

This is such a powerful, yet heartbreaking, book about the effects of bullying and how it can ultimately lead someone to commit suicide, or "bullycide". It also has wonderful resources at the end, including discussion questions about the book, as well as statistics about bullying and suicide and hotlines/websites for those who are being bullied or contemplating suicide. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is involved in education, especially at the middle/high school levels, as well as those who have children at that age, but I also think everyone could benefit from seeing this perspective. It'll make you think twice (or, it *should*, anyway) before using that derogatory term to refer to your friends when they do something stupid, or before laughing at someone because they're different than you. Five stars.

a_nm_'s review against another edition

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5.0

At the end it gets a little bit hopeful, but not really and we don't really know if she did it.
But I think she did and honestly, good for her.
I know how this feels and I know she is better now. Someone can say she did a selfish thing, but tbh, no.
Everyone would be selfish to let her suffer.
It was very dark, but I liked it.
It was short, easy to read and there wasn't any unnecessary plot twists or stores.

damyyg's review against another edition

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5.0

Kitap içimi dağlayarak bitirdi. O kadar acı verdi ki bana anlatamam size. Geçen 23 gün boyunca ben ağladım, ben üzüldüm, ben dağlandım... İçim yandı, içim kanadı... Yazar yaşamlarımımızın bir zaman diliminde karşımıza çıkabilecek bir durumu o kadar duygulu ve içten bir şekilde yazmış ki artık kitabın sonlarına doğru gözyaşlarım sel olup aktı. Özellikle 15 yaşındaki bir genç kızın yaşadığı bu durum/lar o kadar acı ki son 5 günü okurken kaç kez kitabın kapağını kapattım inanın hatırlamıyorum. Son 5 gün bütün sırlar ortaya çıkmasına rağmen kitabın sonu okuyucuların düşünceleri ile başbaşa kalmasını sağlamış. Yazarı bu nokta da gerçekten çok kızgınım. Bir an gerçekten bir an o kadar çok umutlandım ki hayalimde Santana ile Afrik dansı yaptım. Ama daha sonra kitabın ismini görünce bütün umutlarım bir çöp öğütücüsüne gitti ve orada tıkalıp kaldı. Ve her şey bu kadardı... Bitti. Acı ile...

Kitap 2017 yılında okuduğum ilk kitap. En acısıyla en umut öldürücü şekli ile aklımda kalacak bir şekilde iz bıraktı ben de... Sonsuza kadar. Seninle iyi ki tanışmışım Daelyn. Ve seninle de bir gün Afrika dansı yapacağım Santana, söz...

crescent_just's review against another edition

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5.0

This is a really emotional and thought worthy book about Daelyn,who wanted to ''fit in''.Not her exact words per se,but then it could as well have been what she was conveying.
Daelyn's story is very relatable in a whole lot of ways.
The feeling your parents don't care about you,
The fact that you have no friends to communicate with,like everything about her life.Sure,I will admit,I would also have tried to kill myself if that had been my case.

I love the fact that Daelyn got the opportunity to meet someone who was in the same position as she was.It gave her time to think and reconsider her decision about commiting suicide.Santana added a spark and made me love the book more.He was carefree and didn't allow his illness to bother him.That trait is actually hard to possess and someone might even say it is totally not relatable.But in my opinion it really is.There are a whole number of people who are ready to endure pain without a hint of it in their behaviour.That was really brave of the Santana.

The end was pretty much surprising as I was expecting it to be straightforward.
It actually allowed and gave time to think especially due to the part about the man and his dog.
Overall,this book was totally worth reading and I loved every bit of it.

glitchreads's review against another edition

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5.0

This book made me feel less alone as a teen who found it on the shelf of a used book store. I cried as I read and I couldn’t put it down. I even reached out to the author after I finished. It’s not an easy subject but it’s important.