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May 27th, 2017
Not so much about the evils of technology, this book explores more of why and how we get hooked to games and social media apps. Alter examines the roots of addiction and explores how we can use technology that gets us hooked to better the world.
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May 26th, 2017
A tale with no set ending and, perhaps, no set beginning. There are several different ways to read this book about obsession, longing, and how we hide ourselves in the digital age.
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May 25th, 2017
This look into the search for the man behind the Silk Road is a fascinating and fast-paced read that sucks you in and doesn't let go. Big takeaways: the answers often come from unexpected sources and you should probably avoid dating libertarians.
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May 25th, 2017
When Lucie Blackman goes missing in Tokyo what starts as a missing persons case turns into an exploration of Japanese culture and the oddities of family. Richard Lloyd Parry gives a complete picture of the isolation that results from interactions with the people who are closest to us.
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May 22nd, 2017
Rosemary Kennedy was beautiful, vivacious, and mentally disabled in a time when mental disabilities weren't readily understood. After a botched lobotomy in 1941, she is sequestered away at a home in Wisconsin. This book attempts to look at her life and her legacy, but does it really work?
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May 20th, 2017
This book sucks the reader right in and drops them down into NYC's Village in the late 1950's. Bette and Earl have been friends for thirty years. She desires truth and justice, he desires love and beauty. What happens when the world pushes them to their breaking points? It's so good.
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May 19th, 2017
New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul tells her life story through the books that she was reading at the time certain things happened. It wasn't supposed to, but the book made me feel nostalgic for something that I will never have. I'm sure a boomer would look at it differently.
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May 19th, 2017
Though this book was at one point released as pulp fiction, the characters have real depth and the story is surprisingly modern. Gellhorn tells a story of love, war, and race with compassion and understanding for nearly all of the characters.
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May 14th, 2017
James Forman Jr. examines the origins of some of the country's most detrimental policies in this fascinating book that examines class, race, and how they interact. With echoes of Stamped From the Beginning's anti-racist message, the book presents civil rights and the war on drugs in a new way.
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May 12th, 2017
When Alice visits her grandmother in New York, she gets sucked into a social media wormhole. Her obsession with a writer soon takes a dark turn in this novel about particles colliding and people connecting.
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May 5th, 2017
In this collection of essays, Lauren Elkin considers the cities that she has lived in from the perspective of someone on the ground. She covers history, literature, art, and film all while exploring the idea of the subversive female explorer.
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May 3rd, 2017
What could be a traditional True Crime book turns into so much more with Ken Corbett steering the conversation towards gender, masculinity, and what we expect from boys and men. This book was difficult to talk about because the reality of the crime extends far beyond the immediate violence.
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May 1st, 2017
Elif Batuman's debut novel explores language and communication in a welcome way. Set in 1995, the book uses the emerging internet and email as a way to push the characters into and out of each other's way. It was an incredibly refreshing read in a world dominated by social media.
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Apr 29th, 2017
When you go nearly a decade between readings of a book, things change. There are things that you remember and things that you forget. Becca talks about communication, expectations, and all the things that make McEwan a great writer.
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Apr 27th, 2017
This amazing novel tells the story of Am Spiegelgrund from two different perspectives. Adrian is a child who must live under the horrific conditions and Anna is a nurse who is complicit and loyal to a fault. The book examines not just the reality of living at a place like Spiegelgrund, but how we allow some people to m...
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Apr 23rd, 2017
What starts as a story about an estranged mother and son evolves into a delicate tale of fitting in, feeling lonely, and trying to discover who you are in a world that doesn't seem to want you. Buchanan's debut novel is beautiful and haunting. I feel like it will stick with me for years to come.
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Apr 22nd, 2017
We all kind of know the story of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, but this book gets in depth about what really happened. Guinn also forces us to ask questions about how something like this could have been stopped, when cults become dangerous, and how social movements can turn. It's a fascinating look at an often derided ...
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Apr 17th, 2017
War is never easy to understand, and it's even more difficult to understand when the majority of the action takes place on someone else's land. This book tries to explain the roots of terrorism using an American story. It works in some ways and in others fails, but it's an interesting read about a future that could be ...
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Apr 15th, 2017
With tensions with North Korea rising, it's important to understand what life is like within the secretive country. Yeonmi Park paints a real, yet relatable, image of the day-to-day of living under a dictatorship. Though her journey isn't typical, it is horrifying in its own way, and leads readers to a greater understa...
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Apr 12th, 2017
When revisiting a book from your childhood, there's always a chance that it won't live up to your memory. Avi, however, fails to disappoint. This book is full of adventure and fun, making it a great trip down memory lane.
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Apr 1st, 2017
It's a gothic novel with a modern twist. The Unicorn isn't about actual mythical creatures, which is unfortunate, but it is about what happens when we push a lot of ideas onto someone who isn't quite real. Lots of drama. Lots of crying. Lots of people falling (or jumping) off cliffs.
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Mar 24th, 2017
What can a 19th-Century Russian classic teach us about the modern prison system? A lot. There's systematic oppression and questions of criminality as it relates to class, just as we would see today. Does it get a little preachy? Sure, but only in the end. Tolstoy's final novel is different from the rest, but still tell...
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Mar 20th, 2017
This book is about the art that we don't have. The gaping holes in our artistic history that are the result of oppression and exploitation. Kunzru moves back and forth in time to tell a sharp and moving story about brutality and what we lose when we deny the voices of our fellow citizens.
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