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Reasons for Reading This Book: I read Our Country Friends by Gary Shteynahr for the reason that I am a member of The Readheads Podcast book club. This book was chosen for the April episode. After hearing the description given about the book when it was announced I was excited to read it. This was the first book I was reading that was about a pandemic and I was interested to see how a group of friends lives' looked when they quarantined together. I went into this book really excited about it. Content of This Book: A group of friends quarantine together in upstate New York during the pandemic. The group of friends are staying at a Russian-born professor/writer, his Russian-born psychiatrist wife, their K-Pop obsessed daughter's country house. The group of friends is made up of a struggling Indian-American writer, a successful Korean-American app developer, a world traveler, a young essayist, and a movie star, known as The Actor. Together the group experiences 6 months of isolat...

Reasons For Reading This Book After reading Eleanor and Park last month, I wanted to read another book by Rainbow Rowell. Ever since my mom read Fangirl she has been telling me how much it parallels my twin sister and I's lives. In the past I have read books with twins and absolutely loved them, as I can relate to their feelings of being a twin. Unlike Cath and Wren from Fangirl, my twin and I are fraternal twins and barely look like sisters let alone twins. The fact that this book is so similar to my life made me have to read it just to see if what everyone has been telling me was true. Let me tell you, this book is freaky similar to my current life. Content of This Book Cath and Wren are identical twins who just started their freshman year of college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Even through they are identical the two have contrasting personalities and interests. Not only does Cath the narrator of this book struggle to adjust to life in college, but she also st...

April Book Review: Columbine My Reasons For Reading This Book As someone who was only a few months old when the tragedy of Columbine occurred, I did not have much knowledge on a historic event that greatly effected the United States. After the Parkland School shooting on February, 14 2018, I become interested in reading peoples opinions and research on school shooters. I came across Columbine by Dave Cullen and thought that it would be a good read that fit all the topics I was currently interested in.  Content of the Book  This book breaks down the myths that surround the Columbine massacre that took place on April 20, 1999. The myths that are explained is the martyr student, that bullying by jocks was the reason for the attack, depression was a cause, and if the killers were apart of the Trench Coat Mafia. The author of the book is Dave Cullen who fist reported on the massacre and then took his interest to the next level by taking ten years to write this book. C...