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PurpleyPumpkin

The Testaments: A Novel | Margaret Atwood

Day 17 #SetInFuture #AboutABook
#MyNeverendingTBR

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Just now noticed the girl with ponytail, arms extended upward below her collar 11mo

Suet624 @Eggs I didn't notice that until you pointed it out! 11mo

PurpleyPumpkin @Eggs @Suet624 Wow, I never noticed that before!😳 11mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs I never noticed that!! 11mo

Eggs @Suet624 @PurpleyPumpkin @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perhaps a clever move by the illustrator… 11mo

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ChelseaM6010

Untitled | Unknown

#AboutABook
Day 17. Set in future
#SetInFuture

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 11mo

Eggs Brilliant 🫶🏻 11mo

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Leftcoastzen

The Road | Cormac McCarthy

#AboutABook #SetInFuture Bleak masterpiece

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Love McCarthy 🩷 Bleak but necessary 😂💔🫶🏻 11mo

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Deblovestoread

The Martian | Weir, Andy

#AboutABook #SetinFuture #Debut #Twofer

I missed yesterday so chose the tagged to cover two prompts. Love this book.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Perfect 💛🧡❤️ 12mo

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CoffeeNBooks

Brave New World | Aldous Huxley

#AboutABook #SetInFuture
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Great cover! 12mo

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DebinHawaii

The Future | Naomi Alderman

#AboutABook

A few books #SetInFuture or in the near future that I‘ve read over the past several months.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Lesliereadsalot My murder was good! 12mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Brilliant 📚💛 12mo

Eggs These look great! 12mo

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dabbe

Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury

#AboutABook
#SetInFuture
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Unfortunately, this one is now hitting too close to home.

TheBookHippie 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 12mo

JenniferEgnor There‘s a movie for this. 12mo

dabbe @JenniferEgnor Newer than the 1966 version? 12mo

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dabbe @TheBookHippie 😵‍💫 indeed. 12mo

JenniferEgnor @dabbe yes. Came out in 2018, available to stream. 12mo

mcctrish I read this in high school, grade 13 so 82/83 and I‘d probably be correct in saying it‘s haunted me all these years. I have actively thought about it ever since. That‘s a wild power for a book to hold 12mo

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 🔥 👏🏻 12mo

Eggs This did actually happen under the reign of Hitler. seized books were burned for all to see in Berlin plaza. Books (and Jews) were claimed to be “intellectual garbage”. That is the end of liberties - to erase history, to deny thought and analysis. There is a powerful memorial now at the site. @dabbe (edited) 12mo

dabbe @JenniferEgnor Ooh, cool ... I'll have to look into it. Thanks! 🤗 12mo

dabbe @mcctrish The first year I taught it, I actually lit a book on fire (a very old well-read Harlequin paperback 😱) in front of the class, after asking them what happened at the temperature 451? I set off the fire fire alarm system in the whole school. But it was quite effective. That book “burns in me brain“ (EA Poe)--just like you. 🔥 12mo

dabbe @Eggs 🩵💙🩵 12mo

dabbe @Eggs I'll have to research it more. Thanks! 🩵💙🩵 12mo

Bookwomble Some of the more famous (infamous!) photos of nazi book burnings are of the destruction of books relating to transgender and queer issues, which were amongst the first they targeted. Transphobia and homophobia are literally nazi ideologies. https://www.themarysue.com/what-books-did-the-nazis-burn-first-its-telling/ 12mo

JenniferEgnor Recommended reading—Bookwomble is right. https://forward.com/culture/549587/trans-book-burning-library-gay-pride/ 12mo

JenniferEgnor Watch this documentary on Netflix: Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hated 12mo

dabbe @JenniferEgnor @Bookwomble ... lots of interesting things to look into ... thanks to both of you! 🤩 12mo

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