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Lesliereadsalot
The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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Pickpick

Finally got around to this futuristic story where you can have a chip implanted in your brain to help you sleep. Who wouldn‘t want to sleep better? On the down side, however, the chip company can see your dreams and then determine if you are a threat to society. Narrator Sara is thus detained at LAX and sent to a retention center, a prison of sorts, where she will be under observation for three weeks to determine if she actually is a threat. ⬇️

Lesliereadsalot As her release continues to be postponed, she is left with wondering if she actually is some kind of threat and if she will ever be able to leave. A rather weak ending makes this a soft pick. 1d
mcctrish Oh my - I was at the dr this week to try some anything/everything to get me to sleep without interruptions - I‘d get this chip in a heart beat 1d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish the dream literally… 1d
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mcctrish @TheBookHippie pretty sure all I will dream about is rabbits eating my plants and how to kill them #lockmeup 1d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish could ya take out my raccoon too? 1d
Lesliereadsalot @mcctrish @TheBookHippie You guys sound just like me with a family of raccoons and bunnies eating my flowers! 14h
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RJRobertson
The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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britt_brooke
The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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Mehso-so

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Imagine your dreams were government surveilled. Pretty horrifying! I loved this premise, but this dragged on for ages. Something about the execution just didn‘t work for me.

BarbaraBB I felt the same. All the ingredients were there but it didn‘t work for me 2w
britt_brooke @BarbaraBB Yes, perfectly said! 2w
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quietlycuriouskate
The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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I'll rate it a pick for the scare value (the consequences of trading privacy and freedom for convenience under surveillance capitalism) and for daring to have a not especially sympathetic MC. But, oh, did it drag... right up until it got wind of the finish line, towards which it fairly galloped!

Maybe I've got the peri-menopausal rage-tinted spectacles on again, but isn't it also about how this economic culture depends on unpaid female labour?

Rissreadswithcats You keep those glasses on! 🤣 Important perspective! There is definitely not enough rage out there at the moment. (edited) 3w
dabbe ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2w
britt_brooke Exactly how I felt! 2w
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OwenB
The Way | Cary Groner
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Mehso-so

I really enjoy apocolyptic stories and was looking forward to this one. But it just didn‘t meet the mark. I thought that it was a slow read but it did pick up closer to the end. After this entire slow read I was hopeful for a nice wrapped up ending but it just seemed to end. I was like WHAT?!?!

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Kristy_K
We: New Edition | Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I‘m not going to lie and say I understood everything this book was trying to say, but it‘s interesting how relevant this book still is. I could see how 1984 and other dystopian novels pulled from it.

Ruthiella I could definitely see what Orwell borrowed from it. 1mo
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Lkempf
Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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May reads: 7 tense reads this month. Usually this month is my highest of the year, but due to my focus on my physical and mental health and a very busy time at work, it‘s a little low. Don‘t think I will make my yearly reading goals.
My favorite read has to be The Dream Hotel.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
Zamyatin: We | Yevgeny Zamyatin
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#TLT @dabbe
21! So many I have never heard of!

3 favorites:
We (tagged)
The Forsyth Saga (book and show both sooo good)
Of Human Bandage

3 on TBR
Edith Wharton
Ford Maddox Ford
Chrome Yellow by Huxley (I had not heard of this!)

dabbe For what it's worth, I adore Edith Wharton, especially THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (movie, too!) #TFPAS (Thanks for playing and sharing) 😊 2mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @dabbe Age of Innocence is the only one of hers I have read! Maybe I will crack into more of hers... I don't own any so it will just probably be something I feel shame for not doing 😂
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dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures ETHAN FROME's excellent, too, and much shorter! 🤩 2mo
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ImperfectCJ
The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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Lalami's writing is sometimes a little obvious in its intentions, but this one plays with nuance a little better than The Other Americans, which I appreciate. It's definitely paranoia-inducing, so if you're reading fiction to avoid doomscrolling or if you don't want to look at your smart devices with suspicion, this might not be your best option. But aside from those caveats, I quite enjoyed this one.

ImperfectCJ Bonus points because this is the first of Lalami's novels I've read that doesn't mention turtle doves living in North America (which they don't). Bird mistakes in fiction are a pet peeve of mine. I'm still irritated at The Memory Keeper's Daughter for a robin mistake, and I read that one in 2009. It's actually pretty much the only thing I remember from that book. 2mo
Ruthiella Small errors like that can really bug! 2mo
TrishB It‘s historical inaccuracies that annoy me! 2mo
Suet624 I‘m still thinking and talking about this book 2mo
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ImperfectCJ
The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami
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I had a lovely time at the orchid exhibition at the botanic garden yesterday. It was a nice break from national news, unlike the tagged, which I started on audio. It seems pretty good, but I don't know if I'm in the right headspace to cope with the paranoia. (I also played at a piano recital and was so nervous that I pretty much blacked out during my performance, so I might need something lighter to read to help me even out.)

kspenmoll How beautiful! What a peaceful way to spend some time. 2mo
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