![]() "Ideas form our beliefs, shape our conviction, and solidify into habits. It's an eyes-wide-open trust in a God who is there and is worthy." "Unquestioned answers shut down vital discussions and turn others away from the truth." Some of my favorite quotes from the book: We are a society of sound bites, but these often shut down good discussions. Yet others I have myself repeated because I thought they sounded good and didn't question them. Some of these answers I've heard and struggled with and wondered why they are so often repeated because they didn't comfort me. Myers unpacks 10 of these quick answers (like "Just have faith" and "It's not my place to judge") and encourages better dialogue. Many of them don't really answer our tough questions. We hear so many catchy sayings and don't question them, but just repeat what others have said. ![]() ![]() ![]() Myers suggestions into practice as I was reading the book. I was provided an advanced copy of the book and am immensely greatful, as I was able to put Dr. ![]()
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For years, the Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu has strictly controlled Romania’s citizens. The novel takes place in Bucharest, Romania, in 1989. agent in my computer” is watching us and so on.īut for Cristian Florescu, the 17-year-old protagonist of Ruta Sepetys’s new historical novel, “I Must Betray You,” the idea of surveillance isn’t a meme it’s a reality. Facebook is tracking us Alexa is listening to us “the F.B.I. ![]() The belief that we’re all being spied on all the time is so common nowadays that it has become a meme - a joke about the proliferation of tech. I MUST BETRAY YOU By Ruta Sepetys 319 pp. Welcome to YA/NYT, a monthly column in which we recommend one new young adult book that you won’t want to miss. ![]() ![]() When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. I'm usually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.Ĭome for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. I caught myself rereading my favorite parts. ![]() Murderbot and the world it inhabits constantly leave you wanting more, in the best possible way. Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR Book Riot Polygon A 2021 Nebula Award Winner Shortlisted for the 2022 Seiun Award 'If the first books were episodes in a four-part TV miniseries, then Network Effect is the feature-length movie with the bigger budget and scope. 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![]() ![]() Following her diabolically clever The Keep (2006), Egan tracks the members of a San Francisco punk band and their hangers-on over the decades as they wander out into the wider, bewildering world. ![]() (June)Įgan is a writer of cunning subtlety, embedding within the risky endeavors of seductively complicated characters a curious bending of time and escalation of technology’s covert impact. Or as one character asks, “How did I go from being a rock star to being a fat fuck no one cares about?” Egan answers the question elegantly, though not straight on, as this powerful novel chronicles how and why we change, even as the song stays the same. Egan’s overarching concerns are about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, and lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn. By then, Egan has accrued tertiary characters, like Scotty Hausmann, Bennie’s one-time bandmate who all but dropped out of society, and Alex, who goes on a date with Sasha and later witnesses the future of the music industry. We begin in contemporaryish New York with kleptomaniac Sasha and her boss, rising music producer Bennie Salazar, before flashing back, with Bennie, to the glory days of Bay Area punk rock, and eventually forward, with Sasha, to a settled life. ![]() ![]() Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive and well in this graceful yet wild novel. ![]() |