Sunday, May 27, 2018

Metamorphosis And Other Stories

By Franz Kafka

I have read this before, and yet, I remembered it completely different. Isn't it weird? Especially the main story. This time the experience was quite different from the way I remembered it. I have no idea why.

This is a small collections, which also includes In the Penal Colony, The Country Doctor, and The Judgement. [88 pp.]

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Terms of Service

By Jacob Silverman

This book has so much information about the information age. Although I was already a bit weary of what all of the social media and Co. are doing with my input (which is why I use StartPage as a search engine instead of Google), there are still a lot things I was not aware about, or haven't considered, that are mentioned in this book. Definitely worth the time to read through and take note. It is also very interesting and approachable, so reading it is really not such a big chore. [NF, 448pp.]

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Bad Feminist

Essay by Roxane Gay

This collection of essays talks about race, gender, and how entertainment is involved. Many of them are very personal, but in way that related to subject matter. They talk about what it means to be a feminist (a very complex term?), and what it means to be a woman, a person of color, a person of unfavorable physical measurements, etc, in this world and society. The essay are approachable and enjoyable to read, even when they talk about really heavy, non-fun issues. [NF, 318 pp].

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