books I've read

Anne Hawn's books

Who Moved My Cheese?
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Scientific Secrets for Self-Control
Just One Damned Thing After Another
The Vanishing
Exercises in Knitting
The Good Dream
The Very Best of Edgar Allan Poe
The Chosen
BT-Kids' Knits
Talking God
The Professor
The Christmas Files
The Finisher
Home Decor for 18-Inch Dolls: Create 10 Room Settings with Furniture and 15 Outfits with Accessories
Dracula and Other Stories
A New Song
Christy
All Quiet on the Western Front
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents


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I'm reading 150 Books

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The Help
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Night Circus
The Golden Compass
11/22/63
The Little Lady Agency
Catch-22
The Good Father
A Discovery of Witches
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
A Christmas Carol
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Color Purple
Matched
Cloud Atlas
The Princess Bride
The Catcher in the Rye


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Friday, January 03, 2014

1984

19841984 by George Orwell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I read this in high school and remember thinking that 1984 was so far in the future it seemed impossible for some of the issues in the book to be relevant. It is amazing how many things have come true, or are comprehensible now.  I think the border between "political Correctness" and the concept of "thought crimes" is actually scary.  I am also amazed at the role of the media.  Until the last 20-25 years, the idea of a biased media was something I never thought I'd see.  I remember talking in class about propaganda and thinking it couldn't happen here and now I am all too aware of "interpretive journalism." Once a country loses the objective voice of truth everything can be manipulated.

1984 isn't fanciful thinking, it is the natural extension of things that are taking place right now.  Some have called our government a "nanny states" and the government in 1984 is a logical extension of that kind of thinking; "Big Brother knows best"...and then "Big Brother is watching."


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