“The Winter of our Disconnect” by Susan Maushart will be quite an interesting read. I expect the book to relate to me and my life greatly because the book is about how Susan and her three teenage children literally disconnected themselves from technology for a period of 6 months. Because I, like most other children my age, am so dependent on technology and use it in my day to day life in numerous ways, I think this memoir was a good choice for me. It will also be interesting to see how Susan Maushart writes her books; I know nothing about her or her writing style, so this memoir will be opening a world of new things to me into Susan and her personality.
I’m excited and anxious to begin reading the book, and I anticipate that, through interest in what it would be like if I disconnected myself from technology and what the results were from Maushart doing it, I won’t be able to put the book down. I’m also intrigued to see how the process of Maushart and her family disconnecting from the technological world affected them physically and emotionally, as well as their bond as a family. I have questions for the book that will hopefully be answered in my reading that include how characters behaved and reacted over certain things and periods of time. If the book accurately portrays that unplugging has positive, rich, and varied benefits and rewards as opposed to being on the chain attached to technology for the rest of my life, perhaps an unplug is in my future, inspired by Maushart’s memoir.
