It´s Fall! And Fall, in Japan, is known as The Season of Reading, The Season of Appetite. The Season of Sports...etc etc. So here I am with updates on two out of the three
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Wow, the baked goods look so yummy! I'm pleased your kids take after you in wanting to do things their way, despite the trail and error involved!
I read both novels at school and your summary is spot on, I think both writers had crystal balls or time machines, as it's so scarily accurate -
What Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 have in common is the use of surveillance technology by government to control the people(which is amazing considering this book was written in the late 1940s), the movement toward simplifying language and destroying literature to discourage individuality, imagination and thought and of course the use of war to validate the governing system and keep the people cowed and busy.
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/2746736
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The Time Traveler's Wife is so well-written but it absolutely gutted me emotionally, lol. I remember just SOBBING over it as I neared the end.
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Yes! I sobbed my eyes out too😭 It was perfect!❤️I loved that he was able to spend time with his daughter and Chloe was finally reunited with him too.
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I read both novels at school and your summary is spot on, I think both writers had crystal balls or time machines, as it's so scarily accurate -
What Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 have in common is the use of surveillance technology by government to control the people(which is amazing considering this book was written in the late 1940s), the movement toward simplifying language and destroying literature to discourage individuality, imagination and thought and of course the use of war to validate the governing system and keep the people cowed and busy.
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So scary but makes me so grateful for what we have!
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I read the Percy Jackson books and loved them. Especially the parts with Bessie, the cow serpent. Moo!
Also loved Fahrenheit 451. .I read the book and saw the movie a long time ago, and it made a big impression.
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The parts with Bessie were fun! I can see how Fahrenheit 451 would make a good movie :)
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