KnittedMushroom rated Invisible Women: 4 stars

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on …
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Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on …
Wow this one took me a while to chip through. But in my defense, I was demoralized at my progress through the book after being hammered with upsetting facts for 16 chapters. Turns out, my Kobo was factoring the citations into the % completed. The citations account for FIFTY PERCENT of this book according to Kobo.
Caroline Criado Perez uses "I cite my sources" as a THREAT. This is a great read and every woman should give this a read at some point, even if you can't make it through the whole thing, pick a chapter that means something to you.
Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world …
Content warning Second paragraph details my opinion on the ending.
It's amazing how much of this book still can be compared to our current situations across multiple countries. The constant surveillance part is still a scary threat we live with today.
1984 gave me the same feeling I've had reading other not-so-happy books where the climax and falling action are pulling you through the pages because you don't know how the author is going to write the character out of the situation. And then the ending finally leaves you feeling underwhelmed and defeated. It's definitely a book you need to sit and think with. I'd encourage anyone who read this in high school give it a second read as an adult with more life experience to draw experience from.
@hollie@social.coop I'd also love more resources for finding epubs, but here's what I've got to contribute. Calibre is an open source program that you can search their databases for DRM free epubs. (I've had mixed results) There's also ebooks.com that has an entire DRM free section. But it's substantially smaller than the DRM content pages. openlibrary.org is a GIANT library of ebooks for rentals as well!
Where do folks go to get DRM-free epub books when they're trying to avoid Amazon and Barnes & Noble?
I use bookshop.org and thriftbooks.com for my hard copies of things, but I LOVE my eBooks too.
Right now the only advantage to Amazon is that I can legally break the DRM, so the book is truly mine once I purchase it (I won't buy eBooks I can't unlock). But I'd really like to find alternate sources of DRM-free books. Ideas?
As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from the Hugo-nominated …
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The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in …
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on …
I'm going to preface all of this with the fact that murder mysteries are not my usual genre. This book had been recommended to me by a friend as "similar to Hitchhikers Guide." While the written wit does start similarly, I found myself struggling to feel absorbed into this world and invested in the characters.
It reads like "a series of events." The events were neither dramatic, joyous, or interesting in any manner to me. I understand that the main character, and thus you, are supposed to be thrust into a confusing and antithetical to "normal" life world. But every action that had even a minor tinge of drama and excitement was heavily underscored by the "but since we're in school, there was never any danger" excuse.
I actually put this book down at the end of a chapter where the character is yet again hurtling to his death, because …
I'm going to preface all of this with the fact that murder mysteries are not my usual genre. This book had been recommended to me by a friend as "similar to Hitchhikers Guide." While the written wit does start similarly, I found myself struggling to feel absorbed into this world and invested in the characters.
It reads like "a series of events." The events were neither dramatic, joyous, or interesting in any manner to me. I understand that the main character, and thus you, are supposed to be thrust into a confusing and antithetical to "normal" life world. But every action that had even a minor tinge of drama and excitement was heavily underscored by the "but since we're in school, there was never any danger" excuse.
I actually put this book down at the end of a chapter where the character is yet again hurtling to his death, because I just feel like nothing was of consequence anymore in that book.