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BookMack
Permanent Record | Edward Snowden
Mehso-so

I think there are a lot of missing parts to the story

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Leftcoastzen
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#CoverLove #Gray published in the 90s, I use it as a reference, I refer to it when I read about movements or organizations . Everything from ACLU , American Indian Movement, Black Panthers , American Nazi Party, & more . Enlightening, definitely not fun.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🩶📚🩶 4mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 4mo
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Bookwomble
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#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude
So many catchy tunes on this album, but "Hard to Beat" is kinda that!
https://youtu.be/ch6qy0qdifc?si=dZA9Wcu5eeSRqbvg

TheKidUpstairs Oh man, I loved this album! I haven't thought about it in years, I'll have to give it a relisten. 4mo
Bookwomble @TheKidUpstairs It's a good one! I hope you like it as much as you remember 😊 4mo
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Pedrocamacho
More Perfect | Temi Oh
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Pickpick

I loved “More Perfect”. The characters are complicated and so are their motivations. There are real stakes and costs. The technology is both frightening and exhilarating. Just a great read.

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Gillyreads
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Pickpick

Books I read in June plus ebook of The Palestine Laboratory

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Booksblanketsandahotbeverage
Gnomon: A novel | Nick Harkaway
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I finished Titanium Noir in a day, so I decided to take on this #chunkster It‘s definitely slower reading, but I‘m intrigued enough to continue!

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AudiobookingWithLeah
Going Zero | ANTHONY. MCCARTEN
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4⭐
NARRATOR: Marin Ireland
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-It doesn‘t get too techy-Cat and mouse antics.
-It‘s fascinating how much they underestimate the librarian.
-Overall, I was engaged throughout most of the story.
-A fantastic narrator
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-Some people found it repetitive…but, it wasn‘t an issue for me.
-It was often quite noticeable that a man wrote the female protagonist.
-There are a significant amount of implausible elements, but I just went with it.

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Rachel.Rencher
The Every: A Novel | Dave Eggers
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Mehso-so

This book (sequel to Eggers' The Circle) took me a looong time to finish. It's a dystopian story that imagines a world where Meta and Amazon become this massive tech monopoly and take over surveillance, medicine, consumption, and basically every aspect of one's life. The amount of tech advancements described in the book was a bit overwhelming, but also mirrors reality in a sense. I don't know, I just had a hard time with this one.

marleed I was in the minority being underwhelmed by The Circle because I thought too many social issues were touched on. It‘s a pet peeve of mine, and I prefer when just a few 3-5 social issues are introduced and focused upon. 6mo
Rachel.Rencher @marleed I agree, like I get that it's a snowball effect that they're trying to capture, but it made the book far too long. There were too many characters and ideas to remember. Also the ending felt way too unbelievable... 6mo
KathyWheeler @marleed Oddly, The Circle is a book that I liked a lot when I read it, but like less and less when I think about it. And the movie just cemented that view. This new book sounds very similar to it. 6mo
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marleed @KathyWheeler That has happened to me several times. The one that immediately comes to mind is the tagged. I loved it while reading (fictional family dramas make my upbringing seem normal 🤪) Then I heard an interview where the author defends her fictional father and the fictional wife who stood by her man - fictional kids be damned. It altered my entire reading experience. I can‘t see the book without cringing now, or read more from her. 6mo
KathyWheeler @marleed She defended that father and the wife? I thought the whole point was how awful they were! 6mo
marleed @KathyWheeler Yes, she did. And dang, now I‘ve negated your view of the book, too! 6mo
KathyWheeler @marleed That‘s okay. 😄 6mo
marleed @KathyWheeler 🤣🤣 6mo
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Rachel.Rencher
The Every: A Novel | Dave Eggers
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As I was taking this photo on my porch, two moms walking their kids home from the school near my house started screaming profanities at each other. One accused the other of not loving their child for not doing the fun run correctly, to which the other responded, "Suck a fat d*** you c***". ???

Alexa, play "It's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"

Bookwormjillk Lol summer vacation needs to start early for some people 7mo
wanderinglynn OMG! Seriously WTF?! 😳🤯 Someone needs to seriously chill. 7mo
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Ruthiella 😳😱🫣 How awful. 7mo
HeyT Apparently none of them ‘touched grass‘ at the fun run (edited) 7mo
TEArificbooks 😂 mommy wars are for real. It is their way of doing things or you can suck a fat d****. I have seen some things go down. Big Little Lies got nothing on the moms in our old school. One of the reasons we homeschool now. 7mo
Julsmarshall My goodness! That is terrible! 7mo
Tamra What?! Not my kinda socialization. 7mo
inthegreensandblues Whoa 🤣 Super cool bookmark! 7mo
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Robotswithpersonality
Gnomon: A novel | Nick Harkaway
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Yeah. YEAH! I just love the way Harkaway writes. I hope nobody ever asks me to explain this book fully, but I'd go for 'sci-fi mystery with fantastical elements.' While the Matrix feels like an obvious reference point, I'd add Inception and Sucker Punch to the film comps. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? It's hard to pitch the framework because fictional utopian societies that are actually revealed to be dystopian are not new, especially in the framework of fears around the surveillance state, having your mind no longer be a private space, and possibly having your own thoughts/ workings of society manipulated by others via tech are themes that loom large these days. 8mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? But Harkaway has this truly, splendidly powerful imagination that adds in layers and elements to bring humanity and humour and truly wild experiences to that kind of story. 8mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/? There is a darkness to the narrative, I think the best indicator I can give is this is the second book I've read from this author and both involved torture sequences, though you could argue the ones featured here range from the more tactile to the more abstract. 😬 ⚠️Racism, violence 8mo
Robotswithpersonality 5/5 And still, I enjoy floating along in the worlds he creates. I think even more so than with Angelmaker you have to be willing to go with flow, take your time. 😏 8mo
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