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Week 15: The future

How I see the future technology become an even bigger and more involved part of our lives than it already is. Also, maybe the rise and fall of social media, maybe not as a whole but at least a lot of the platforms we use now. I see regular TV and cable is a thing of the past and subscription services being the only source of tv and movies. I also think about how we consume media and ads will change in the future and we will see the number of ads shown daily triple in numbers. Hopefully, superhero movies will have run their course and will finally die out in the future. I can see a lot of the famous movie franchises like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings getting remade in like 30 years to bring them back to life again. I see travel in all forms being more streamline and involving more technology and fewer humans. Career-wise, personally for the future, I see it changing from working for a large firm to eventually being independent and owning my own company. Maybe even marry rich and
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Week 14: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Having never listened to a radio show like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy before I was skeptical on whether or not I’d enjoy it since I don’t like the talking back and forth of podcasts. Giving it a chance, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I did in fact like it. The parts that I enjoyed the most were when the narrator would interrupt and provide additional background which added to the storyline made it feel like breaks in a chapter as if it were a book. I have heard a lot about radio shows, especially the famous War of the Worlds one, while at Ringling but I have yet to have a chance to actually listen to one. With this one being just shy of thirty minutes it was enough to give me a chance to see if I liked it enough to continue listening, which I did. The storyline itself was interesting because when they entered the spaceship I assumed that it was going to be this grand thing with lights and buttons but like the one man in the shows surprise as well – it was just old mattres
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Week 13: the magicians

I went back a few weeks to a topic that we had covered and started to watch the show The Magicians. After the first 20 minutes, which I didn’t care for, I was hooked to the show. Quickly binge watching my way through the show I find it very engaging and unpredictable. Many fantasy shows stick to stereotypical fantasy tropes that already exist but this show (therefore the books as well) really makes up a lot of its own world. I find it very interesting that as I watch the show it often makes me wonder how everything would be described in the book so I can see myself going back and rereading the book. I enjoyed seeing how the story progressed and how the different plot lines and character backgrounds getting revealed and connecting. Can’t wait to get more time to finish the show and start the novel.
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Week 13: The Aquatic Uncle.

I actually truly enjoyed this week reading assignment! This isn't something that I would normally choose to read on my own but for only being 7 pages long it was really something that held your attention. The idea of that the higher evolved frog wants to return and be with her boyfriend's less refined uncle was extremely engaging. Prior to the ending, of course, I found the story very relatable for me personally with trying to get older family members to move into more modern times and them rejecting it. The idea of using evolution to describe a family dynamic I haven't read about before which made it a refreshing storyline The story was able to fit a lot of meaning into such a short story and it moved along at a quick pace too. Overall, I would read this type of fable again because of the interesting way that it was written and concept.
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Week 12: Bloodchild

1.    I’m not entirely sure how to react to this story by any means. I actually really hated it and how it was written if I’m being totally honest. It took a long time for me to understand what exactly was happening and I’m still not sure if I ever really figured it out in the end. I didn’t find the storyline interesting at all and it felt like it was trying very hard to be “different”. 2.    I guess the only connection I can make is a theme of motherly love. The affection from a mother is a constant theme in the story and is often touched upon with Gan and his mother and T’Gatoi and her eggs. I was unable to make any sort of personal connection or tie to this story because of how disconnected I was from the plot and storyline itself. 3.    I feel like this story would be best suited for a graphic novel and it would be way better than the novella itself had it been illustrated to start with. I feel like there needed to be more descriptive language to help support this unknown world w
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Week 10: Fahrenheit 451

For this week I took the opportunity to read Fahrenheit 451 since I’ve wanted to read it for a while but haven’t gotten the chance to. The book is based on the ideas that books are bad and that they provide anti-social tendencies and conflicting views so they are banned for being owned and read. Firefighters are in charge of going and burning books and the main character goes against his firefighter wats and starts to read. Montag goes against society and starts to think for himself and is forced to run away from everything that he knows and start over. I really enjoyed this book and am glad that I got the chance to finally read this since we didn’t read it in high school.  This book addresses the problems with not thinking for yourself and not educating yourself. It was fun to read about this world that had a lot of things that we have now like big TV’s.
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Week 11: Anubis Gates

This week I read the book Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. I had a back and forth relationship with this book because I would go from really enjoying it and finding it very engaging to being lost and confused and not liking it at all. The thing that kept me reading the book was the curiosity of what could possibly happen now that he’s stuck in a different time period. The book also went into amazing detail of what the environment was like and the characters personal thoughts and fears. The book started off with a long preface which took place in ancient Egypt and was rather confusing to start with because once the book started it was very different and it was quite jarring at first. The idea of this novel is definitely unique for me, with the mix and jumping between time periods. I had never explored steampunk novels prior to reading this one and it was good enough for me to consider diving deeper into the genre to read more of them.
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