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Little Brother     
by Cory Doctorow (2008)

read: 30 June 2008
rating: [+]
categories: fiction, ya

I read Cory Doctorow’s YA book Little Brother on the plane home from the library conference after seeing him speak on a panel on privacy and then coming home to learn that my LOCAL library, one who pays me occasionally, had, um, had a visit.

If you have/know smart kids who love computers, this is one of very few books I’ve seen that gets inside what really techie people are like, and it’s a decent YA novel at the same time, deals with a terrorist event where the Bay Bridge is blown up and civil rights get suspended, etc. If you know Cory’s work you’ll know how it goes, but I was surprised how engaging it was at the same time as it painted a dystopian near future and hit all the EFF-ish talking points.

Some of the web has a hate-on for Cory a lot of the time, but I like him and his writing. I like to read about people who are really deep into a tech universe. Few activists come across sounding so smart about tech.

Going to Meet the Man     
by James Baldwin (1965)

read: 28 June 2008
rating: [+]
category: fiction

[review pending]

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close     
by Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)

read: 1 June 2008
rating: [+]
category: fiction

[review pending]

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