Fahrenheit 451

I love this book.

I've always loved it.

So when my friend suggested we re-read it for Banned Books Week, I jumped at the chance.

I haven't read this book since high school, so I went into this just remembering how I felt reading it as a teenager. You guys know the gist of the story right? If not, here's a refresher.

 

Guy Montag is a fireman. But his job isn't to put out fires, it's to set them. Reading and owning books has been outlawed, so when the alarm siren ring the men jump into their truck with firehouses that spray kerosene. When Montag meets the peculiar neighbor girl, he begins to question everything that he had been taking at face value. For years, he's been collecting books from homes he's set ablaze and hiding them in his own home. Technology has taken over and they're constantly interacting with strangers they call relatives.

It blows my mind that this book was originally published in the 1950's while this extreme interconnection is something we witness every single day here in 2023. When I first read this, I didn't even have a smart phone. But now the world has seen rich ass men literally throwing themselves into space.

This book has been challenged and banned all over the world for numerous reasons. What these people are failing to realize it that by banning Fahrenheit 451, they are doing exactly what the firemen did.

Wanna see my original review?

Fahrenheit 451

 

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Dead Eleven

This book was so freaking good.

Creepy ass island? Check.

Missing sibling? Check.

Dead kid? Check.

It all starts when Willow goes missing.

After the death of her son, she starts looking for meaning. Anything that might help her cope with the loss of her little boy. After a nightmare from her childhood, she has the overwhelming urge to move the toy box in his room....that's when she sees it.

Clifford Island.

Google hardly recognizes Clifford Island as a real place, but before long she's on a boat to get some answers. But what she finds is even weirder. This island and all its residents seem to be stuck in 1994. The O.J. Simpson Bronco chase plays every single night, there's hardly any modern technology, and there always seems to be something lurking behind the curtains.

This was the perfect book to kick off spooky season.

The secrets, the nostalgia, the dreary weather.

It was just perfectly spooky.