The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CB... Ecopy provided by Netgalley and the publisher.

Okay. So this book is supposed to be a selfhelp kinda book. Yeah, it wasn't. Who doesn't know about breathing techniques by now? I felt like this book made everything much easier than it is, really. Yes, staying calm and breathing is the way to go, but tell that to someone in the middle of a panic attack. They tend to forget that and being busy trying to just survive.

First half of the book explained what anxiety is, second half goes into detail with different issues. The problem here is that the 'survival guides' are more or less the same - which means reading the same steps over and over and SIGH!
It also felt a bit childish. Like it was aimed at children 10-14. A bit too young imo.

Also, it felt a lot like those kind of books that should be free. It had links all over the place! I get that it can be nice to know where you can find more info, but really....in the middle of the text? Stop, please just stop. Those links should've been in the back of the book instead, if you ask me.

I liked the drawings and the cartoons, they were cute, but that's about it.

You can easily find this book online if you google it.  Here's a link to this edition: http://www.nukepills.com/docs/nuclear_war_survival_skills.pdf

 

This is a great book on nuclear disasters and their effects.  There is a high emphasis on making everything yourself and there are instructions and diagramas for building shelters, improvised furnishings, radiation meteres. You need time to build it if you decide, but for most things he says you can make in 24-48 hours. It is also very anti-doom and gloom, claiming a lot of what people think in terms of the end of the world, nuclear winter, etc is the result of misinformation and Cold War propaganda. I especially liked the first few chapters on how to recognize an attack and the introduction. There's also a lot of historical information. I learned a lot I didn't know, but then again I didn't know much on the subject before.  There is definitely a lot of interesting information here and considering the situation with North Korea it's worth reading and knowing.

HUNTED is book 5 in the House of Night series. It is important that you read the others before this one. These novels do not stand alone.

The book order is:

MARKED
BETRAYED
CHOSEN
UNTAMED
HUNTED


HUNTED picks up exactly where UNTAMED leaves off. Zoey and the gang are regrouping in the tunnels that the red fledglings have been calling home after escaping from the House of Night. An ice storm has crippled the city, making any further retreat impossible. Stevie Rae is badly injured and while Zoey, Aphrodite, and Darius try to save her, Damien, Erik, Jack, and the twins try to secure the tunnels.

Zoey’s main concern is stopping Neferet and Kalona from gaining anymore power. They already have the House of Night under lock-down and are taking focus away from Nyx and if Zoey’s visions are correct, things are only going to get worse.

After a near fatal attack, Zoey has to be rushed to the House of Night for proper healing. While there, she reconnects with Stark and gets some valuabe information about the situation of the school.

HUNTED seems like a “bridge” book in the series. The plot advancements must be needed to set up the next book in the series. So, needless to say, there isn’t a lot of new information in this book. However, Zoey does fall victim to her difficult love life again. *smirk*

Should society crumble, I shall be much more prepared. Should I become lost in the woods, I will be much less likely to turn into a Perished. The skills to be starting fires and making cordage at every appropriate moment.

Sample: For emergency lost-in-the-woods-ness, cotton balls smothered in vaseline kept in a waterproof containter make great fire lighters. For long-term forming-civilization-anew-ness, among the coal making techniques described is a pump made from sticks, rocks, and cordage. Boom! (ok, not actually boom) Fire.