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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World | Naomi Klein
If ever a book was necessary, its this one. Bill McKibben Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer grounds of solidarity in these times. Judith Butler What if you woke up one morning and found youd acquired another selfa double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes youd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experienceshe was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo? Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt usand that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror. Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel nowand an intellectual adventure story for our times.
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SanjanaGhosh
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Bailedbailed

It was too much jargon for me!

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readingjedi
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Half-term mini-haul: Part 2

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Singout
Pickpick

An excellent exploration by political analyst Naomi Klein into how being mistaken for Naomi Wolf, a writer who's moved to the political right, has prompted an analysis of how the left/right binary isn't as simple as it was. She looks at a “mirror world“ where the axis can sometimes be a diagonal one, revolving around issues like Covid and anti-vaxxing, big pharma, conspiracy theory, global and online media, and wellness.
#Nonfiction2024 #1984

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TheKidUpstairs
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Pickpick

A thoroughly engaging look into the dualities in modern life and society, prompted by online confusion between Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf. I was particularly struck by the empathy with which Klein investigates how someone like Wolf, feminist darling of the 1990s, would fall into the far right conspiracy crowd.

I recommend the audio, Klein does a great job at the narration!

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Augustdana
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Plugging away on the second time I‘ve had this book borrowed from the library. Determined to finish this weekend. Back to school was crazy and I didn‘t read a single book in September.

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TheKidUpstairs
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Audio party prepping!

Throwing kids birthday parties is not my favourite thing, but sometimes you just gotta suck it up, eh? Thankfully the tagged keeps me engaged through the drudgery of prep work.

dabbe Looks great! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
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Singout

What we need are systems that light up our better selves, the parts of ourselves that want to look out at a world in crisis and join in the work of repair. Where do we find the models for that? Perhaps we should look to the roads not taken.
#SheSaid

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Pogue
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Panpan

My book club picked this and in reading this book I realized I am not a fan of political commentary. It is not old enough to be history. It is not current enough to be current. This is like reading the newspaper from two years ago. That being said the first half of this book could‘ve been a 10 page essay. The second half of the book could‘ve been 3 10 page essays. I would have liked to have been able to DNF this.

dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 5mo
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Julsmarshall
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Absolutely fascinating! This book was a deep dive into personal branding, politics, feminism, and the intersection of society and technology. It caused me to think a lot about my place in the world and how to be more compassionate, authentic, and impactful. Great on #audio , read by the author. #BookspinBingo #Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

AllDebooks I think this is her best work yet, maybe because of the personal element. This lady sure knows how to make you think. I agree, the audio was amazing.❤️ 5mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5mo
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DebinHawaii
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#ReadAway2024

Read for #SheSaid May, with all my travel & illness I couldn‘t keep up with my audiobook. I was intrigued & invested so I switched to a library print copy but didn‘t finish it before it had to go back. Back to audio, I finished yesterday & I‘m glad I made the time to finish. It‘s an interesting premise, author Naomi Klein has been confused for 90‘s feminist Naomi Wolf (of The Beauty Myth which I read in a women‘s studies class) ⬇️

DebinHawaii … whose politics took a sharp turn to the right. While this book starts as Klein‘s experience dealing with that confusion & in the upside down “mirror world” it delves more into a commentary on life, politics & culture in our current world. It‘s not an easy book to explain, I‘m still unpacking it in my mind & probably will be for a while. Klein reads the audiobook & it worked—both her writing & narration kept me invested throughout. (edited) 5mo
DieAReader 🥳🥳 5mo
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jenniferw88
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Librarybelle On my to read list! 6mo
mcctrish I‘ve got this on hold 6mo
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AllDebooks
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It's a bit late, but here's my #BookspinBingo list for June. It feels good to plan out this month's reads. The last 2 months have been a little more random without my monthly routine.
I'm absolutely obsessed with #SheSaid May's #buddyread (tagged), still catching up. 😅

@TheAromaofBooks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

julieclair Isn‘t it amazing how comforting a routine and a plan can be? 6mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa I need to get back to scheduling…. I‘ve been going without for awhile, not book journaling either, and it has negatively effected my reading. 6mo
AllDebooks @julieclair I hadn't realised how much it helped focus me until I stopped doing it. 6mo
AllDebooks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa same here. Looking forward to getting into a more stable routine. 6mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 6mo
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vlwelser
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This was excellent. I love her writing. I hope she wins the NF Women's prize. I was a little concerned she may have gone down a rabbit hole to crazy town with the intro. But she really just explains how other people got there. Spotted her with a member of my tote bag collection.

#SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid! How are you this weekend? Long weekend if you are in the US.

I‘m still behind with the sections on this one, but it‘s very good, and for me at least, taking my time with it is helping me absorb more I think.

I hope you are all getting things from it too. Please let me know how you are making out with this month‘s selection.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa First, my apologies for being perpetually behind lately. Second I am getting a lot from this book as she gets past the obsessively following her double and into the Mirror World itself and how different groups have managed to find common cause and how strategists have steered the group. 6mo
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vlwelser I really got a lot from this book and I am very glad that I read it. I found the chapter on Palestine especially insightful 6mo
KathyWheeler I‘m really behind too, but I like it, so I will finish it. 6mo
MallenNC I‘m not quite finished yet either but I‘m hoping to finish this week. The material is a lot more dense than I expected so it isn‘t a fast read. But it is giving a lot to think about. 6mo
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vlwelser
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Me and today's book bestie are waiting for the 9:40 train because poor choices were made. I only have 25 pages left but my normal bed time is near. So the race against zombie mode is real.

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AnneCecilie
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In social media Naomi Klein is sometimes mistaken for Naomi Wolf, and at the start of the pandemic Klein decides to look into that. As the pandemic progresses, Wolf is more and more linked to Brennan and his mirror world. In this world Wolf is an upcoming star

Klein looks at Wolf shift from the left to the far right, what made it happen? What‘s in it for Wolf?

As Klein looks at mirror worlds, she‘s also looking into the anti vaccine camp,

AnneCecilie the treatment of autistic children. She uses litterateur and paintings to show that Dobbelgangers aren‘t anything new. How with social media everyone is becoming their own brand. This book gave me a lot to think about. And her Shock Doctrine that I bought ages ago, is moving up the tbr list. #SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 7mo
batsy The Shock Doctrine is very good. 7mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid!

I‘m still behind 😬 in Part 2 yet. I did splurge for the audiobook, so I‘m hoping that helps me to make up some ground. How is it going for everyone else?

Riveted_Reader_Melissa My thoughts so far, is this is one we should all read… I think it is going to be essential reading for how to talk about this weird fractured time we are all living through. Even her beginning disbelief at the confusion, to obsession with what is the flip side doing now (Nicole Wallace of Dateline Whitehouse calls it Earth 2), but doppelgänger society works too. To trying to root out the whys & how‘s of it all. It‘s so important and yet I find⤵️ (edited) 7mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ myself taking long breaks between sections. Maybe because it is important but tough to deep dive into too. (edited) 7mo
AnneCecilie What made the biggest impression on me in this part was the treatment of children with autism. Autism Warrior Parents at war with the autism in their child and what they were willing to do to “cure” their kid. Some of these parents will blame the vaccines for the autism in their kids. Reading some of this was hard 7mo
AnneCecilie And when Naomi Wolf compared herself to Rosa Parks for refusing to wear a masks both to a coffee shop and to the waiting area at Grand Central Station and getting away with it. I get provoked when she compares situation during Covid to Jim Crow laws and to Jews during Nazi Germany. 7mo
vlwelser Wolf acts like a 'Karen' and then reacts like people shouldn't be giving her a wide berth. I think contrasting actual protests and other thoughtful acts against these other things is very powerful. She has a way of making these people seem extra crazy. Like with that trucker demonstration in Ottawa. Vs that thoughtful act in BC that showed solidarity and whatnot with the indigenous families. 7mo
vlwelser The worst thing about Wolf is she wants attention and she's getting it for herself. Maybe there's a list of things I dislike about Wolf but this is high on the list. 7mo
MallenNC I‘m a little behind too. This is so interesting to me but it‘s not a fast read. I‘m hoping to catch up this week. It‘s got so many examples of how people have come to believe in a whole different reality so it‘s hard to take in at one time. Scary and frustrating. 7mo
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youneverarrived
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A lot of the things Klein writes about in this book are things I find really interesting to read about (and ponder) so this was right up my street. It‘s a hard one to narrow down and review but I‘m glad it seems to be a book a lot of people are interested in as it would be great if more people were aware of what she writes about here. #womensprizeNF

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rmaclean4
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This was so much more than I expected. She examines history and our need to look away from hard truth. It is also a call to action. Highly recommend. 4 🌟 The author narrates the audio book. ♥️

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Mrs_B
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Library win when you‘re the first to get the book and it‘s still pristine!!!
Not sure what this says about the book though…

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid, & hello to all the Mothers out there on today, the US‘s Mother‘s Day! You are all doing a great job in this crazy hectic world we live in, keep up the good work and make time for yourself too!

Ok…back to the book…. I am struggling with this one and way behind. How is everyone else doing? It‘s fascinating & yet with our fractured society a bit too much of real life at the same time. We all have relatives that have fallen ⤵️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ fallen down the rabbit hole….and it is not the fun playful one of Alice. So I think my struggle is more, it‘s bad stuff I don‘t want to dredge up again 😂. Her struggles are to much like struggles with some of my actual loved ones…the how can you possibly believe X conversations. At least I have not been confused with them I guess. (edited) 7mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa I used to think “they” will all need some cult de-programming in the future, but we may all need some PTSD treatment. The constantly dealing with the ‘no, you do not know what you know‘, the doubts, pushback, the questioning of self…is it me or her that has the real problem. One of us is obviously bonkers, since there is no middle, and since you and all your friends agree…must be me. That the numbers online outweigh so must be “right”. ⤵️ 7mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ hard to remember Critical Thinking skills and that numbers repeating the same thing (or repeating it louder or more often) does not make it true. This looking glass of our society is so fractured. 7mo
CatLass007 Your words are very insightful. I chose to skip this month‘s selection because I didn‘t want to be in the space in which you now find yourself. The woman was a con artist who cost people a lot of money and caused those same people so much pain. If this had been a work of fiction I might have found it to be entertaining. It‘s a memoir/true crime book and I don‘t enjoy true crime. 7mo
vlwelser I really appreciate the fact that we're all silenced by this. We don't want to seem crazy. They stole the words we want to use. It was maddening enough that she wrote a whole book. I feel a little bad that she has to deal with this. At least they only share a first name really. But I cannot imagine being swept along by this particular crazy train. 7mo
MallenNC I‘m not quite finished with this section but it‘s interesting to me how the author is portraying her own almost obsession with N. Wolfe. I also keep thinking about whether N. Wolfe really believes the ideas she‘s selling these days or if she‘s just an opportunist. That‘s one reason misinformation is so hard to fight — unclear/bad faith motivations. 7mo
KathyWheeler While I‘ve found this book interesting, I am having a hard time with it because of the ideas she‘s discussing. I haven‘t finished this part yet. 7mo
willaful @MallenNC One of the things I learned from the book is how much is to be gained from going over to the dark side... not even necessary just financially, but in praise and affirmations. This is why once people start down that path, they tend to keep going. Once they feel rejected, they'll find what they need elsewhere and convince themselves it's true.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m finding that as much as I did not feel isolated by Covid or quarantines or social distancing (natural introvert I guess), I obviously did feel isolated in my own thoughts and feelings once the disinformation really got going. And the fact that so many still seem so inthralled in all of the big lies. 7mo
MallenNC @willaful Sadly, there are definitely a lot of advantages, both monetary and attention, in selling conspiracies and hatefulness. 7mo
AnneCecilie I learned of a lot of far out theories in this part that I‘ve never heard about. There‘s a Finnish former teacher that occasionally writes a chronicle in one of the big national newspapers and one of her big complaints is that Norwegian are like sheep all moving in the same direction. When it comes to times like the pandemic I must say that I‘m glad about that. I just check and more than 90% of Norwegians have taken two shots of the vaccine. 7mo
AnneCecilie And I‘m glad I never come across this thinking before, the tyranny of vaccine passports and slavery forever. Have they forgotten what slavery is? At the same time it scares me that som many people out there is buying this and they are creating The Mirror World that Klein talks about 7mo
AnneCecilie I never thought about that @MallenNC and you might be in to something that she‘s “just” an opportunist. 7mo
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LitsyEvents
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repost for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa:

Hello #SheSaid!

My book was a bit late in arriving so I‘m just at the end of chapter 1. But the Intro really has me interested to read more. Please feel free to start discussing below… I‘ll join in soon. I‘m very curious at how deep we will get into our fractured body politic… see you in the comments.

original post:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2731637

#BuddyRead

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid!

My book was a bit late in arriving so I‘m just at the end of chapter 1. But the Intro really has me interested to read more. Please feel free to start discussing below… I‘ll join in soon. I‘m very curious at how deep we will get into our fractured body politic… see you in the comments.

Deblovestoread Please add me. I‘ll jump in as soon as my copy arrives and I get caught up. 7mo
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vlwelser I was a little concerned about where she was going when I was reading the intro. After keeping her mouth shut for so long about other (unhinged) Naomi, it seemed like this might go down a bad path. 7mo
vlwelser It seems to be getting interesting though and I'm looking forward to reading part II. 7mo
MallenNC I have the last chapter of part one still to read but I‘m really interested in the story. I realized as i was reading that I also had mixed up which Naomi was which. I have a lot of sympathy for her bc being mixed up with someone in such a public way has to be difficult. 7mo
KathyWheeler @MallenNC I have mixed them up multiple times. So often that I keep looking up The Beauty Myth to be sure which Noami I really mean. I felt bad for Klein because it has to be frustrating to be accused of saying something you didn‘t say. 7mo
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britt_brooke
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An artistic attempt to reconcile the shift in society during the pandemic through current day. During Covid, Naomi Klein was often confused with Naomi Wolf, who devolved into quite a conspiracy theorist. Klein, obvs was not thrilled by this. Interesting, but an odd choice to lean so hard on the “Naomi Mirroring” when it was but a small piece. Props to marketing genius, I guess.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Next up for #SheSaid!

Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!

vlwelser This one is so new. I'm on the waitlist. Hopefully it comes through at least before the end of the month. 7mo
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Deblovestoread I just ordered this from Book Outlet. Would love to join for May. 7mo
willaful I've already read it, though you can keep me on the list to see what people have to say. 7mo
MallenNC I‘m looking forward to reading this one! 7mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser This is one of those times where I just decided to buy it. Which I almost never do anymore. I‘ve been much better at using my library and online library resources. 7mo
DebinHawaii I think I fell off the list but would love to be back on. I couldn‘t get my library hold in but I used a credit for the audiobook today. 7mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @DebinHawaii let me know if you got tagged in the new post. Your name is in the tag list, but maybe something isn‘t going through properly (edited) 7mo
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Aimeesue
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Tired of being confused w/ Naomi Wolf (90s era feminist, now a conspiracy loving schmoozer of the far right) Klein explores the almost-but-w/-a-dark-side doubling that‘s happening across society now, largely thanks to info overload, mistrust of authority and the rise of"personal branding" which is being exploited by the "far right and the far out" for ?,power,& political gain. Scary stuff but now I understand anti-vaxxers motivations. Kind of.

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youneverarrived
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I‘m LOVING this book! #womensprizeNF

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Leniverse
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This is the only book I've read from the #WomensPrize non-fiction shortlist, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wins. Important book that attempts to explain the right shift/turn to conspiracy theory that has happened in the Western world. Slow going in parts, because there is a lot to take in. Difficult to summarise.

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Suet624
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Up to 20 inches of snow projected to fall over the next few days. I have a multitude of books and magazines to entertain myself with when I‘m not shoveling. This is one book I‘ll be dipping in and out of.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Wow!!! 😮 8mo
IndoorDame Yikes! Stay warm! 8mo
batsy Wow. That almost sounds wonderful—we're having heat, heat, and more unbearable heat. 8mo
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Suet624 @IndoorDame high winds are part of this storm too so I‘m really hoping I don‘t lose power. 😳 8mo
Suet624 @batsy oh no! High heat is a tough one. 8mo
IndoorDame @Suet624 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 8mo
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Hooked_on_books
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Feminist writer Naomi Wolf took a hard right turn some years ago, and many people were confusing Klein with Wolf. Using this as a jumping off point, Klein explores our divided culture and how this is harmful to all of us. Overall, this is good, but while I agree with her that finding common ground is vitally important, I wonder how her use of the term “mirror world” to define another world view is helpful.

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jlhammar
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Wow, this was so good! Smart, relevant, thought-provoking.

#WomensPrizeNF

ChaoticMissAdventures This was the one book I had read before the long list came out and I was really glad to see it on there, I thought it was so well done. 8mo
Cathythoughts Nice review 👍🏻❤️ I‘d like to give it a go. 8mo
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Kazzie
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Very well researched and laid out. Thoughtful challenging arguments. Makes me want to demand more of systems - because their failure is failing some very badly, where people believe they have no alternative but to follow power hungry people into the “mirror world”.

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squirrelbrain
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I did wonder at the start how the author would extend a story about being mistaken for Naomi Wolf into a full-length book, but this is so much more than that. Sometimes rather impenetrable and often rather scary, Klein looks at many different cases of ‘mirroring‘ in society, with particular reference to Covid, as well as Israel, Trump and even the wellness industry.

A fascinating read, even if I had to read it in chunks to understand it fully.

BarbaraBB Great review. I loved No Logo but I‘ve been on the fence about this one. Such a weird subject to write a book about! 9mo
youneverarrived Fab review! I‘m looking forward to reading it even more now. 9mo
batsy Great review. I found the "Naomi mirroring" part the least interesting; but I appreciated a lot of the bits that tried to analyse just wtf is going on in our world. Her years of investigative work into certain topics give her a good instinct about how things tie together. 9mo
KarenUK I‘m so intrigued! Fabulous review Helen 💕 9mo
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Oryx
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That's supposed to be MY reading chair Daisy! That's yours on the floor.

Soubhiville What a cute happy colored chair! Daisy is just keeping it warm for you. 🩵 10mo
Oryx @Soubhiville it was quite toasty actually 😊 (I've evicted her) 10mo
Bookwormjillk I love that color! 10mo
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RaeLovesToRead But she's so comfy! The floor is your home now 😅 10mo
Birdsong28 I think it's the other way round now! 😂😂😂📚📖 10mo
Traci1 Oh my goodness, she is adorable. I'd just have to be sitting on the floor. 😍 10mo
Leftcoastzen So cute! 10mo
Ruthiella 🤣🤣🤣🐶❤️ 10mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 10mo
squirrelbrain There‘s room for two, surely?! 10mo
LeahBergen 😆😆 10mo
Gissy Too comfy to leave it☺️ 10mo
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suvata
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• nonfiction • memoir • politics • technology • culture • 2.5 Stars (Meh) Not my favorite genre

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein is a good fit for people who are interested in reflecting on the current state of the world and their place in it, and who are looking for a thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating read that challenges their perspectives on politics, identity, and the impact of technology on society.

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Chelsea.Poole
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SO EXCITED the #womensprize is doing a nonfiction book beginning this year! The longlist was announced today and I‘ve read 2, already had 1 checked out, 2 were on my tbr and the rest seem pretty interesting too!
Anyone else going to read these? I haven‘t seen any posts so far, but also haven‘t scrolled through. How about a tag? #WPNF24

vlwelser I did not care for this. And I didn't realize it was new. I'm probably going to dip into some of the others. 10mo
Amor4Libros I‘ve only read and loved 10mo
ChaoticMissAdventures I have only read one, these list always make me feel so Unread! Some of these sound super interesting, some not so much, I think I am going to tackle a couple while we wait for the Fiction list on the 5th! I read and loved 10mo
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Chelsea.Poole @vlwelser I believe it came out in the US in 2021, so it must have been published in the U.K. within the time frame to be eligible. 10mo
Chelsea.Poole @Amor4Libros I‘m really looking forward to that one!! Glad to hear you loved it. 10mo
Chelsea.Poole @ChaoticMissAdventures that‘s one of the two I‘ve finished too. Thought provoking! 10mo
Hooked_on_books I‘ve read 4: All That She Carried, Eve, Some People Need Killing, and The Dictionary People. All are very good! I‘ll probably end up reading most (but not all) of them, but I‘m not going to try to do so on any timeline. I have put the ones available to me either on my library audio holds list or tagged them on Everand. There‘s some interesting looking books here! 10mo
Chelsea.Poole @Hooked_on_books yes there are some interesting looking titles! I‘m about to start 10mo
Graywacke I don‘t know that i can read any, but i love the list. I‘m fascinated and _want_ to read them all. I might try to sneak one or two in. 10mo
youneverarrived I love that they‘ve started doing this prize! I almost bought Eve the other week so definitely want to read that and Doppelgänger is on my tbr. I read Matrescence recently and rated it five stars ? 10mo
Librarybelle I‘ve been eyeing the list…I love that there is now a nonfiction. I‘ve placed a few on hold from the library, but selection is limited. I‘m going to check ebook options through my library‘s digital platform, but I‘m going to read what I can! I actually own a copy of Young Queens, and I have not started it yet, so this might be my big push to start it sooner than later! 10mo
Chelsea.Poole @Graywacke @Librarybelle I‘m in the US and there are several that haven‘t been published yet here. When they are I‘ll give them a try! 10mo
Chelsea.Poole @youneverarrived I‘m interested in Matrescence but it‘s not available here yet. It‘s one I‘m interested in, so I‘ll look for it when it is available! 10mo
TheKidUpstairs I put a bunch on hold yesterday, I'm planning on dipping in and out of the list when I can! 10mo
Librarybelle Ah! That‘s why I couldn‘t find all of them. Makes perfect sense now! 😂 10mo
Graywacke @Chelsea.Poole Twelve are available now. Four have later US release dates: Intervals by Marianne Brooker-Feb 28 (?); Code Dependent : Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia-june 18; Vulture Capitalism : Corporate Crime, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley-March 12; The Britannias : An Island Quest by Alice Albinia-feb 27 10mo
Chelsea.Poole @Graywacke thanks for the info! I should have clarified that many aren‘t available on library platforms I have access to at this time, a few due to later publication dates. Others I‘m not sure…maybe later release dates for audio versions etc. 10mo
Graywacke @Chelsea.Poole i didn‘t check library‘s, but i did check audio. 😁 Release dates are the same, but four don‘t have audio options on audible (2 are future US releases): Intervals, Shadows at Noon, A Flat Place, The Britannias. (edited) 10mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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This is an exceptional read. I liked how Klein challenges liberals and leftists to really look at the world, to see the many layers of an issue. She spends a lot of time on Naomi Wolf (her own doppelganger) but also on mirror and shadow worlds. The unraveling of the known with Trump and COVID but also how the other side might not push back enough against big government because they are trying to balance the crazy on the right.
Really enjoyed

Ruthiella Nice camouflage! The book almost melts into the background . 11mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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#weeklyforecast
My goal this year was to read more books that were not British or US, and read more nonfiction (NF). This next week looks like a success I will be finishing and starting books from:
Canada (NF) (granted a lot about the US)
US (NF)
Portugal
New Zealand
Argentina

Suet624 Elena knows. Loved it. 11mo
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keithlafo
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An interesting and thought-provoking intersection between memoir and social philosophy. I think the first half — where Klein‘s observations about her “doppelgänger” Naomi Wolf intertwines with discussions about right-wing conspiracies — is more interesting than the second half, where we take a few detours. But overall I loved this a lot.

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Megabooks
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Klein and Wolf, have you ever gotten the two confused? As Wolf fell deeper into right-wing conspiracy theories and Steve Bannon TV, the confusion became more problematic for Klein. In this excellent book, she looks at Wolf‘s descent but also how society can easily descend into fascism and conspiracy and the mirror selves we all have. Her insights into vaccination and the Israel/Palestine issue are particularly important and timely.

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Rissreads
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Fascinating! This book went down many rabbit holes. “It all would be so ridiculous- if it weren‘t so serious.” I wasn‘t sure if I should laugh or cry over so much of this book. It nailed the world we are living in, where so many of us have no commonsense. I have admiration for Klein who has been mercifully mistaken, mocked and hounded for another‘s ideals, yet she can still show empathy to her doppelgänger. She deals with it all with such grace.

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REPollock
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The information in this is interesting but her devotion to the concept/structure hinders the analyses and messages.

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batsy
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I feel like there were two books fighting with each other in this. Klein is a nonfiction writer, but the doppelganger stuff would have made an intriguing autofiction novella, or as a monograph on psychoanalysis. The part that was interesting, which is the capture of the public imagination by the right-wing around the time of the pandemic & ensuing lockdowns, is where the book failed me. The Klein of Shock Doctrine & No Logo would have dug deep 🔽

batsy and researched the manner of the "mirror world" at work through lobbying and billionaires taking over public goods, including the internet, for their own interests and thereby shaping the terms and tone of the discourse. There was a lot of potential for that particular aspect of the book that was regrettably hamstrung by having to fit into the "doppelganger" conceptual framework, and it didn't really work imo. 12mo
squirrelbrain Great review - I‘ve been intrigued by this but wasn‘t sure if it would work. Sounds like it didn‘t. 12mo
BarbaraBB No Logo was a life changer. Hard to live up to! 12mo
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REPollock I‘m struggling with this one right now. I‘ve been wrestling with what I‘d been vaguely thinking about as a problematic structure and you crystallize it here. 12mo
batsy @squirrelbrain Thanks! It's not bad in any sense but it is more muddled than I expect from her. 12mo
batsy @BarbaraBB True! 12mo
batsy @REPollock Oh, I'm glad what I said made sense! I was struggling with it and feeling underwhelmed and quite confused by the positive reviews. 12mo
Anna40 I heard her talk about the book and current events in an interview. What worried me was that she downplayed and dismissed fears the Jewish community faces since October 7. How does she approach the topic Holocaust? 12mo
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underground_bks
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By facing her own doppelgänger, leftist activist Naomi Klein explores the absurdity, inversion, & surreality of our cultural and political moment, offering piercing perspectives on self-branding, conspiracy theories, climate change, the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, & more. Sprawling, funny, intellectually invigorating, & disturbing in equal measure—if you get lost following Klein in the mirror world, you‘ll end with your feet on more solid ground.

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Idk… I liked it! Maybe because of how much it was hyped up, I was hoping it would be paradigm-altering. It wasn‘t- not to me, at least. But it was still very interesting & enjoyable. A bit frenetic, maybe a bit narcissistic in a pandemic era-way… but also completely self-aware about that fact, which makes it work on some level. Probably didn‘t help that I find it almost completely possible to focus on anything right now that is not Gaza 🙃

underground_bks I really appreciated the couple chapters on Israel and Palestine 13mo
breadnroses @underground_bks Me too - super timely! 13mo
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mjtwo
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31 Oct-3 Nov 23 (audiobook)
Interesting non-fiction. I was drawn to this being one who had been guilty of confusing the two Naomis. I still find it difficult to believe that the woman who wrote The Beauty Myth has gone on to become a prominent anti-vaxxer who makes regular appearances on Steve Bannon‘s channels.
Klein does jump about to address a myriad of issues though. Interesting in light of the current Gaza/Israel conflict but bit disjointed.

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Chelsea.Poole
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Naomi Klein has been repeatedly confused with Naomi Wolf, who wrote the feminist book “The Myth of Beauty”. Wolf then “switched sides” and began appearing on Fox News against the COVID vaccine. Klein uses this mistaken identity to explore so many contemporary issues we face today: climate change, politics, the pandemic, racial justice, the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, social media, autism, and so much more. Long, and all over but a good audio.

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Pedrocamacho
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The consequences of modern society‘s ability to obscure important truths, profit off of that obscurity, and ignore large segments of the population are folks like Naomi Wolf, Steve Bannon, and Donald Trump.

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batsy Keen to read this! 1y
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OutsmartYourShelf
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Have you been feeling that in the last few years things are slightly off with the world? I know that I sometimes look around & wonder what the hell is going on. There's a feeling that we have truly stepped through the looking glass. Naomi Klein calls this the Shadow or Mirror world, which leads her onto Doppelganger culture: the world of the Shadow selves. (cont'd)

OutsmartYourShelf Klein, author of books such as 'No Logo' & 'Shock Doctrine' has over the last few years been continually confused with another writer of a similar name but who holds the opposite viewpoints in many things. It's all a bit tenuous - I can imagine it is frustrating to have people keep attributing her words to you, but a doppelganger? Not sure. 1y
OutsmartYourShelf Overall though it jumps about from topic to topic (including racism, xenophobia, the Holocaust, communism, climate change, Covid, & facism) & it was difficult at times to stay on track whilst reading. My mind started to wander at times. 2.5⭐

My thanks to #NetGalley & publishers, Penguin Press UK/Allen Lane, for the opportunity to read an ARC.
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