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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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1984
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George Orwell
Glenn Dietz
, July 23, 2013
Reread your HS classics Recently reread this to get some background for the NSA privacy scandals. The first book from high school that I have reread as an adult (30 years later). What a tremendous difference the decades and reading a book by choice makes! Technological advances in that time probably helped to make the reading interesting also. In some ways this was science fiction I'm sure when it was published, now it's all possible and to some small extent could be argued to be here. This story cannot be brushed aside as not applying any more because it is not 100% accurate, as some would wish. It must be read as a warning of the extent control could be possible, it's impact on humanity and the power of Orwell's imagination.
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Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits
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Samara Oshea
Glenn Dietz
, February 18, 2009
Note to Self provides an enthusiastic endorsement of the power of keeping a journal to understanding/discovering one's true self. The encouragement is intertwined with low-key how-to suggestions that are secondary to the message of Just Write Something (my words). Samara gives personal (really personal) details from her own journal that show how she has recorded life events and thoughts and what they have meant to her personal growth. Each chapter ends with context from historic journals. I definitely enjoyed this book and took away ideas and encouragement even though I doubt a 44-year-old married father was the target audience. I purchased the book as a gift for my 13-year old daughter. Fortunately I got a hold of it first. I haven't decided yet whether she's mature enough for the Intimate Details chapter.
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