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I subscribe to a multitude of book centered newsletters,and as a result I make purchases. When the book arrives, I often have no recollection who or what encouraged me to believe that I must read this book! I need to keep a journal for these mysterious books that float into my life…or not. Here is the latest to arrive. #bookmail

I read this for a local bookstore book club which I am looking forward to in a couple days. I‘m Gen X, so a lot of this are points I have already been mindful of. What surprised me though is how different the dating experience is from my time. I realize that what I learned will help me empathize with what my kids are/will be going through.

Reading this for a bookstore book club and getting a lot out of it. What surprises me the most so far is how different the dating experience is from my time. I realize that what I am reading now will help me empathize with what my kids are/will be going through.

Starting this today for a book club at a local bookstore which I‘m pretty excited about.

Went to my local bookstore today to purchase books for their upcoming book club meetings. I loved their cross-stitch.

This is the "sequel" to Turkle's previous book, Alone Together. She again provides more evidence for the argument that technology and phones specifically act as distraction machines, disrupting human attention, presence and conversation, increasingly preventing young people in particular from learning how to empathize. Technology leaves us feeling lonely yet afraid of intimacy; it leads us to expect more from machines and less from each other.

#Libraryhaul! My husband does not like participate in social media much. I say I have met some of the kindest kindred spirits online but I wouldn't recognize them if I ran them over with a shopping cart. I am hoping this book has some good insights!

He did, however, find this glam sign for me and he arraigned my username on it!

What say you- other than on litsy, are you in social media?

Everyone needs to read this book!!

Really makes you think! Love this book!

My best #24in48 ever! #24in48readathon 🎉🍸💕

Today I got pretty far in the tagged book (which is what I'm listening to on audio right now) thanks to a country drive to pick up my CSA. The book is a startling look at what we're losing by constantly being plugged in and relying on texts, emails, and social media over conversation. It doesn't have the best narrator, but the topic has me completely hooked.

See that pen? That pen is going to run out of ink soon, so enthusiastically am I underlining stuff. We have four kids, all of whom love their screens to a greater or lesser degree, and OH MY GOD.

Desert reading list #2. I wait to read this and then drive everyone in my family crazy.

I'm always on the lookout for new podcasts about books! Do you have any recommendations? The ones in the photo are the 4 I currently listen to. I started some Professional Book Nerd episodes, but I haven't gotten hooked yet. I prefer people talking about books and reading to people talking with writers about their own work.

For me this book did not work. The premise is not bad, and she has some good arguments but it is all in the tone of : Oh, the awful times, back in my day when we actually Talked to each other... I do not believe conversation was thriving as an art form in 1950 s in the USA or anywhere else in the world, for that matter. Thoughtful, meaningful discussion of ideas or real feelings has always been rare. The author did not convinced me otherwise

We are at a moment of temptation, ready to turn to machines for companionship even as we seem pained or inconvenienced to engage with each other in settings as simple as a grocery store. We want technology to step up as we ask people to step back.

Stopped by the library on the way home from work. I saw this on their recommended reading shelf. Seemed relevant enough to check it out

Currently reading this. It's dragging a bit in the second half but I'm determined to finish it!

"Our mobile devices seem to grant three wishes, as though gifts from a benevolent genie: first, that we will always be heard; second, that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be; and third, that we will never have to be alone."