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emmadilemma

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paranoia, ya, l'environnement, sapphic romance, possibly not in that order. can't speak french™ but pretend to flip through the odd french book

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This Song Will Save Your Life (2015, Square Fish)
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is (Hardcover, Princeton)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2018)

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Practical Rules for Cursed Witches (Hardcover, 2024, Delacorte Press)
The Very Hungry City (Paperback, 2014, Yale University Press)
San Francisco (Hardcover, 1978, Presidio Press)

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Lonely Planet Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks 6 (Paperback, 2021, Lonely Planet Publications)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019, Public Affairs)
Universal Harvester (2017)
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commented on Dress Code by Véronique Hyland

Dress Code (Paperback, 2022, Harper Perennial) 3 stars

Why does fashion hold so much power over us? Most of us care about how …

My attention had been flagging a bit after a long chapter on colour, but out of the blue, Chapter 8 revealed itself as a savage, on-the-nose critique of internet consumer culture and exploitation. This one chapter is as insightful as, and more relatable than, any book I've read on the subject in some time.

commented on Surrender by Bono

Surrender (2022, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 4 stars

…[I]n Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about …

The boys on the covers of U2's 'Boy' and 'War' albums are the same boy, the youngest brother of Bono's childhood bestie, Derek Rowen. Derek gave Paul Hewson the nickname 'Bono Vox of O'Connell Street', which got shortened as nicknames do. The cover boy had been given the nickname of Radar; his immediate older brother had been christened Hawkeye.

Bonavox was a local hearing aid shop. Derek just liked the sound the word made.

commented on Surrender by Bono

Surrender (2022, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 4 stars

…[I]n Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about …

Reading Bono's "Surrender" is slow going not because it's unmoving, nor uncompelling, nor indigestible. It's slow going because every chapter sends you back to your record collection, armed with history, ready to listen for new things in new ways. Songs become albums. Albums become memories. And memories become present.

commented on The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher

The Chaos Machine (Hardcover, 2022, Little Brown & Company) 4 stars

From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts …

I pick up a lot of these internet-as-dystopia books. I finish few of them. The Chaos Machine is the first in years that expands my understanding in both depth and breadth. Most are left unfinished because they tell me nothing new; this one will be set down early only because I have to return it.