Very Interesting...

I first learned about Elizabeth Holmes on 60 Minutes and so when I saw Bad Blood:  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, I knew I had to get it.  Whoa.  This woman has some serious problems.  I would feel sorry for her, and I do, but these are health issues here.  I am so glad that her lies were exposed so that others lives were not lost.  I do hope she gets the help that she needs...because she really needs some!  The book is a very fast read and well done!

SUPER DISAPPOINTMENT

Utopia is Creepy and Other Provocations was not provocative, it wasn't even interesting.  I was SO sad.  I loved The Big Switch.  I loved it so much that when I had to interview candidates for a major position in my department I required all who interviewed to the read the book beforehand so that we could discuss it.  I found it to be that important.
I know it is the rage to publish one's blog to make some money off of a book, but the thing is, Carr went SO far back and that it reminded me a lot of this out-dated piece of work here.

Everything Comes Around

"People" say life is like a circle and everything comes around but I heard a woman, with great optimism say that she likes to think of a life a spiral, and yes, everything comes around, but with each turn, we go up and up, things get better and better.

Well I thought that was lovely.  I don't know how much faith I have in humankind, but I do believe that we draw closer to the day we will be with God with every moment and turn and so, yes, I do believe we go around and around, but we keep going up!

The Voiceless was a great short story by one of my most favorite authors in the whole world.  And it will make you think!

Good stuff.  Thank you again, Ms. Kellerman.  

Match Made in Heaven

Death Match was okay.  I wish I would have liked it more.  If I hadn't seen it coming so clearly, I know I would have liked it more.  But oddly enough and so unlike me, I was able to see it coming pretty much from the beginning of the book.  But maybe it was supposed to be that way?  Because if I could see it coming, then pretty much everyone could see it coming.  It was very "meh."

I can't remember 2002

very well, so I don't know if Feed seemed totally off the wall and impossible when it was published.  Sure the whole vacationing on the moon thing is still off the wall and impossible, but the rest of this stuff?  Its scary, how possible it seems.  I didn't realize until just now that M.T. Anderson also wrote Burger Wuss, which I really enjoyed!  As I recall, BW was NOTHING like Feed!  I really like this review of Feed.
I think that the reason I only gave Feed 4 of 5 stars is that I was upset by the way that the adults talked in Feed, because here I am, almost forty-one and I think that I talk just like the Feed adults.  I am all like, you know, whatever, a lot of the like, time.  And it is embarrassing and I am ashamed.  So my 4/5 rating is no reflection on Feed, but rather on myself. 
Additionally, there is a sentence in Feed that made me laugh out loud.  "Everyone is supersmart now. You can look things up automatic, like science and history, like if you want to know which battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and sh%t."
I shared this with an acquaintance and she said, "I know, wouldn't that be a neat part of it!  I wouldn't mind that!" 
I shared it with another acquaintance and the response was nearly the same.  And then a third.  And then a fourth.
No one found it funny.
I found the whole thing rather tragic at that point. 
Feed was scary because it was pretty, darn realistic. 

Gimme a Facebook Account

The Future of Us is a very serious title!  That really is neither here nor there.  I needed something to listen to and this was a new audiobook at the library.  The narrators were great.  It was also my first book by very popular authors Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler.  I really enjoyed both of their writing styles and now I will go on to read other books from them.  I always feel that one sign of a good book is that if you still enjoy the book while disliking one or more of the main characters, and that was the case with this one.  I liked Josh but really didn't like Emma.
TFOU is the story of Emma and Josh in 1996, who get a free disk from America Online.  I was trying to explain this to a kid born in 1998 and it was hard to do so!  How to you even explain a "disk!"  I totally remember getting my free disk and putting it into my Mac Performa 460.  It was awesome!  My first email address, my first online romance (We did end up meeting in person, totally nice guy, I was just so hung up on an old boyfriend that it didn't work out.  Ironically, if you think about this book, I am now Facebook friends with him!)
When Emma and Josh log on, however, they get more than an email address and the chance to IM.  They tap into something they have never heard of before, something no one had never heard of in 1996, Facebook.  Emma's Facebook page shows her what her life will be like in 16 years.
Emma and Josh start to play with the present to see how it will impact their future.  You can see the thematic similarities between this and Gimme a Call, which I loved, but TFOU is more serious.  Really good book.  Oh yeah!  And this book also reminded me of how hard it was to get a Facebook account, back in the day!  Remember when your school or business had to be a participant?  The old days!