"Matched"/"Crossed"/"Reached" - Useless Bookreport Blog With/OUT/ Unicorns, Dragons And Stuff

To finish the book I am now going to answer the questions we got from our teacher. Think about what you have learned from the book/what you did not know before.     I didn't know the poem from Thomas Dylan that is often quoted in the book! And the book motivates me to wonder myself and question some things about our own society. But you don't really "learn" anything when reading the book ... it's after all fiction and not a physics textbook. Discuss your favourite/least favourite character.   My favorite character, at least at the end of the book was Cassia, the main character herself. She goes through the biggest changes and turns from someone swimming with the flow to a rebellious girl, that sees what is wrong with the society and knows what she wants. There is not really a character in specific I dislike. It is the entire society and all the Officials who are the bad ones in the story. I mean, if they didn't exist there would be no problems. Or even ...

Second post today! Damn, I'm good! (No, actually I'm just lazy as hell and do everything on the day I have to hand it in, but whatever...) I just want to mention that these are the last few chapters, so if you plan to read the book yourself, I wouldn't read that summary down there (spoilers!) Summary : In the last few chapters the plot reaches its climax. Cassia will soon be assigned for her vocation, that's why she is asked to sort some workers as a test. She is taken to a fabric hall and gets the task to sort the workers after efficienty in two groups: The ones who are better will get a better occupation than the hard, exhausting work they do at the moment and the weaker people will stay there. But to Cassias horror Ky is amongst the workers she has to sort. She completes the task like she's told, but in the end there is one person left. Ky. He is right in the middle of her list. She knows, that he will probably have a better life when she sorts him in the b...

I haven't updated this blog for a long time now, which was partly because I thought I had missed the due date, and partly because I was waiting for something important to happen in the book. But that wasn't really the case. So I will now just sum up 17 chapters at once ... excuse me if I forget to mention some things. ^^ Summary : The last thing that happened was, that Cassias grandfather died and gave her that piece of paper from the compact. She first doesn't dare to open and look at it. This year she has signed up for hiking as her summer activity because her grandfather used to love hiking. The hikers are lead to a small hill, which they have to hike each person for himself and by the time Cassia is alone out in the woods she finally takes a look at the paper. It is a poem, that tells her to "not go gentle". It's not one of the 100 poems allowed by the society and she knows, that she has to destroy the poem. But while reading, she hears something move ...

I finished reading Chapter 2-7 yesterday and here is what happened until now: Summary: Like expected, Cassia is matched with her best friend Xander. He is a sweet, intelligent and handsome boy and she is glad to be matched with him, although she seems a little disappointed of not getting the chance of being excited about meeting and getting to know someone new, like all the others who got matched with people from other cities. The next day, after she comes home from work (which is by the way sorting stuff), she has the house by herself and decides to take a look at the microcard about her match, she received before. Although she already knows almost everything about Xander, she is curious about finding out more. Xander´s face is shown on the screen, but before she can continue reading, something strange happens. The picture changes and shows another boys face, just for a second, and then the screen goes black. Cassia is shocked and afraid, that there was a mistake with her being ...

Hey, I know that's unlikely, but if there is actually anyone reading this who is not my teacher or someone from my class: please ignore this blog. There is nothing interesting here to find. Just some random stuff about a book we have to read for school and probably tons of sarcasm. Just leave... goodbye, stranger. Now, for the others, who actually intended to be here: Welcome to my book-blog ! I decided to choose one of the books from the list our teacher kindly gave to us. It is called "Matched" and is written by ... (wait a second, I have to look that up) ... Ally Condie! If I'm not mistaken we have to do this book report until the 1st of November .... I downloaded the book (I'm reading it on my ebook) about two hours ago. I'm earl y as always. ^^ (by the way, I think downloading it wasn't a so-great idea. Somehow there are no "ll" 's in my version. means, words are written like: "al" instead of "all", "wel...