Allyson Kuhn - Ragtime

I chose the book Ragtime because we had sang a song from the musical in chorus this year so it was the most familiar to me. I thought that this book was interesting because it gave me a better understanding of the musical and of the time and place. It was also interesting because this gave you a more in depth look at the storyline than just knowing the baseline of the musical. You got a more in depth look at the environment and at the characters, seeing their struggles and things like that. You were given a look at how in this time many people had a hard time accepting change and how many people were influenced by the ever changing technological advances. One of my favorite parts of the book was the anonymous characters because I had read another book like that before and it adds another sort of mysterious and different element. While having closure is something I like in books, this one gave it an element of change and suspense.  I thought this book overall was really cool because there was a kind of "book/movie" sort of thing (except it was book/musical), which is one of my favorite things to read.