My Exhilarating Reading Project

Helooo! It’s me… Bianca.

This weekโ€” well, about two and a half weeks agoโ€” we started a reading project. We had to read a book of our choice(Not a 4-year-old picture book) and… read it. I know, crazy, right? ๐Ÿ™‚ So, I had already started reading a good book when my teacher told my class about this project. I was around page 20, so it didn’t count as cheating if I read it for the project. The book I read is called Quarantine: A Love Story. It is by Katie Cicatelli Cuk. I had already read her other novel before, entitled Going Viral. I loved it, so I bought the other book she wrote, that was actually written before Going Viral. What was interesting about Quarantine: A Love Storyย is that the ‘chapters’ were from the two main characters’ points of view, each one at a time. So it would be one chapter, one character talking and thinking from their point of view, and then it would switch to the other character, and so on.

Anyway, after we were finished the book, we were supposed to do an ‘artifact’. This means we would choose between the choices of stuff to do for the ‘project part’ of this project. We could either make a video explaining the book, board games, podcasts, childrens’ books, etc. I chose the podcast choice. Basically, you have to make three episodes, each one three minutes, talking about your book, your opinion on the book, introducing the characters, everything like that. This sounded like a fun idea, so I did it. I felt like a podcast would be a good way to say how I felt about the book, and get my opinion through to other people. For people who haven’t read the book, I wanted to make them feel like they kind of did. In my podcast, I included my opinion on specific things characters said and A LOT of critiques to what characters should have said.๐Ÿ˜‹ I also thought this would be a good idea to do this artifact because it’s like my own real podcast!

Maybe what I could have done better is be more organized with my reading/podcast writing schedule. The THEME of the book is, I think, finding love in the most unexpected place. Maybe also because they describe Oliver, a character in the book, as kind of always nervous, but Flora, the other character in the book, still liked him. Maybe that can also be the other themeโ€” Don’t judge a book by its cover, or, in this instance, don’t judge a person’s personality by how they act. Maybe, it can be a guy who looks like a pig, but it is really, really kind!

Anyway, that was it for this week, and I’ll see you next time! Bye!