Off Subject Episode 8: Tracking Our Reading
- Fox and Heron
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min read
Free printables to track your reading and favorite quotes!
Book Report:
Josie:
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
This book has been on my TBR FOREVER, like even before the movie came out. Cathryn and I did convince Richie to come see the movie with us when it hit theaters (OH I MISS MOVIES!!) and he fell in love. Well, we all fell in love. It’s now one of our go-to movies. ANYWAY, the book is slightly different from the movie, because it should be. However, I will say that the movie did a great job streamlining the plot of the book, but reading the book after seeing the movie really explained some things for me and I can love both on different levels, and it makes me wonder if I should start watching movies/television shows before reading the book?
So the basic premise of the book is: Nicholas Young, heir to the Singapore Youngs family fortune, brings his girlfriend Rachel, a Chinese-American economics professor home to Singapore for his best friend’s wedding. But in the book, we get all of these different perspectives that we don’t get in the movie, which I love because it makes it more of a family saga than a romantic comedy.
Christy:
Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts
They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.
Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before―the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted―and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden.
In a mysterious shelter in the forest, her training begins under the guidance of Mallick, whose skills have been honed over centuries. She will learn the old ways and find powers within herself she never imagined. And when the time is right, she will take up the sword, and fight. For until she grows into the woman she was born to be, the world outside will never be whole again.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.”
But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
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