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This book (sequel to Eggers' The Circle) took me a looong time to finish. It's a dystopian story that imagines a world where Meta and Amazon become this massive tech monopoly and take over surveillance, medicine, consumption, and basically every aspect of one's life. The amount of tech advancements described in the book was a bit overwhelming, but also mirrors reality in a sense. I don't know, I just had a hard time with this one.

As I was taking this photo on my porch, two moms walking their kids home from the school near my house started screaming profanities at each other. One accused the other of not loving their child for not doing the fun run correctly, to which the other responded, "Suck a fat d*** you c***". ???

Alexa, play "It's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"

Dave Eggers‘s writing is so realistic that it took me 6 months to digest and finish this book of how technology is running our lives. This is the second in The Circle series.

Never want the day to end…

The most scary thing is, that lots of the discussed apps or functions, seem actually quite nice. Obviously should all that stay a choice, and not the only way of living. But this shows how easy it is for people to give in to easy things, instead of us thinking for ourselves.
Anyway, this book made me think, which is a sign of a good book. I liked how Mae played the silent part troughout the story. And Hurricane was just sad...

(🎧 - audiobook)

Reading after dark 😈

Imagine Amazon and Facebook combining into one omnipotent and unstopabble force....not too difficult to picture... The sequel to The Circle.

Leaving unrated.... for now

The Circle was scary, next day futuristic scary. This follow up was just as intense. While it's written full of satire, the humor is dark and truly speaks into the fall of human existence thanks to the spiral that is technology and the effects that come from it. It's terrifying and mind boggling. I just can't. I don't want to raise my children to live in the world that this book foreshadows.

Feels less futuristic and more next week...
Not a direct quote from the book but very similar to the storyline for sure.

A follow-up to The Circle finally comes in the form of The Every. I was giddy to pick this up and first in line at the library. In the beginning, I was excited to get sucked back into this world and humorous but creepy satire, but it was a bit long-winded and drawn out for me.

With the release of this sequel, it reminded me that I needed to go back and read the Circle. Well worth it and a little bit disconcerting.

Follow-up to The Circle, the target of Eggers' satire here is less the Facebook/Google/Apple monstrosity but the wider question of what we as a species are doing to ourselves in the name of "safety" and our determination to avoid being offended or disturbed at all cost. Funny and chilling in equal measure.

Were you crazy about Eggers‘ The Circle? Here‘s the next installment. Need a break from the state of society? Proceed with caution . . . or skip it. Read my full review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#the-every

Has anyone read this book yet? If so, please comment with your thoughts! Thanks.

New book post! My husband bought a book & apparently it has different cover options. Isn‘t this one perfect with Halloween around the corner??