She looks at a number of case studies related to privacy, net neutrality, filtering and copyright. In this compelling account, Monica Horten confronts the deepening cooperation between large companies and the State. They are manipulating governments and policy-makers, blocking and filtering content, and retaining and storing personal data at the cost of individual access and privacy. "How are political decisions influencing the future direction of internet communication? As the interests of powerful businesses become more embedded in the online world, so these corporations seek greater exemption from liability. The closing of the net / Monica Horten Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google BooksĬambridge Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016
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Her husband managed to drag himself out of the old easy chair and went to her. “There’s no change, not one day of peace.” “I don’t know what to do any more,” Leona said. 9-10Īfter Horton settles back into town he occasionally takes Jeffty out to the movies, etc., and recounts the awkward visits to his house afterwards, where the parents are obviously troubled by their strange son: To open a Sony television franchise in town, the first one. Jeffty was still five years old, not a day older.Īt twenty-two I came home for keeps. Now I knew there was something different about him, something wrong, something weird. I came back during the summers, to work at my Uncle Joe’s jewelry store. When I was ten, my grandfather died of old age and I was “a troublesome kid,” and they sent me off to military school, so I could be “taken in hand.” When I was seven, I came back home and went to find Jeffty, so we could play together. When I was that age, five years old, I was sent away to my Aunt Patricia’s home in Buffalo, New York for two years. During this, Horton talks about a young boy called Jeffty: Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison ( F&SF, July 1977) opens with a short “things aren’t what they used to be” passage about Clark Bars (a period confectionary) before going on to give a nostalgic account of the narrator Donny Horton’s childhood years. The market exists in its own time and space, magically jumping from one December to the next every four weeks. It’s one of a kind because it’s always Christmas there, even once Christmas has come and gone everywhere else. Jack Clausen works at the Julemarked, a one-of-a-kind Christmas market. What Astra doesn’t know at the time is that she has met Jack before, and on more than one occasion… She’s there to eat, drink and be merry with her squad and to flirt with Jack, the super cute baker who insists on saving her his best homemade kringle. As you can imagine from her name, Astra is all about holiday spirit and what she’s most looking forward to is her annual trip to the Milwaukee Christmas Market with her best friends. Reichert follows Astra Noel Snow, a young woman who is heartbroken after a nasty divorce and looking to make a fresh start. Happy Friday everyone! I know it’s still spooky season, but for some reason, all of my holiday ARCs also published this month so today I’m sharing my thoughts on my first holiday reads of 2022.įTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Netgalley. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. 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Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: The Poisoner's Ring by Kelley Armstrong. The book contains some terrific descriptions of music (often difficult to capture with the written word) and musings on the nature of the musical mind. Rothfuss’s prose is ghastly on the whole, but he does occasionally manage to churn out a clever turn of phrase (this could perhaps be attributed more to statistics than to skill, given the story’s length). The worldbuilding is acceptable, even innovative in a few ways. I should acknowledge that this book does have a smattering of good qualities. In my view, The Name of the Wind is an overblown, boring piece of tripe that deserves almost none of the praise it has received from fantasy readers around the world. But now that I have finally reached the end of this torturous novel, I can safely say it has been a long time since I loathed a book this much. After myriad recommendations from trusted sources, I had high expectations for Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind. While he is there, he bumps into an elderly member of the Hempstock family - a meeting which stirs up old memories and transports him back into time to his 12th birthday. In a coastal setting, the play starts out with a middle-aged man returning to the place where he grew up for a funeral. Read more: Hamilton announces seven-week residency at Yorkshire theatre - here's how to get tickets It’s here until May 20 in Sheffield and the two-hour spectacle is one you won’t want to miss. The National Theatre’s major new stage adaptation of Gaiman’s hit 2013 novel has come to the Steel City, direct from its acclaimed West End run. 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First published in 1841 across multiple volumes but presented here in one omnibus volume, this enlightening work explores such societal delusions and aberrations as: - the Mississippi Scheme, in which an 18th-century Scottish financier created a stock bubble in France for land in the New World - the infamous tulip mania that seized Holland in the 1600s - the grip that alchemists, with their claims of turning lead to gold, held over the European imagination during the Enlightenment - the centuries-long Crusades of the Middle Ages - the witch hunts that plagued both sides of the Atlantic in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries - and many more. It may seem like we today invented mass insanity, but it's always been with us, as this classic expose of the madness of humanity demonstrates in a way that's both disturbing and highly entertaining. from the Preface The satanic child-abuse mania of the 1980s. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit. In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. He and his wife of 27 years, Jean, split their time between a ranch they’re remodeling in Julian and an oceanfront condo in Solana Beach. “My life is still pretty much the same as it’s ever been,” he said. If, at age 58, this is his moment, he seems unfazed by it - happy for the success, but not planning to move to Beverly Hills any time soon. There he was chatting with Soledad O’Brien, cracking wise with Craig Ferguson, sounding solemn on NPR. 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Atlee Pine, the hero of Baldacci’s hit 2018 thriller Long Road to Mercy, returns to star in the latest page-turning thriller from one of today’s most bankable writers.įollowing the events of last year’s book, FBI agent Atlee Pine finally returns to Georgia to re-open the case of her missing twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted––and in all likelihood, murdered-more than three decades prior.Ĭonsumed with anger and regret, both symptoms of survivor’s guilt, Atlee’s decision to dive back into her sister’s case is as much a move of love as it is necessity. |