A bibliophile shares all her bookish thoughts
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Published by Riverhead Books on September 13th, 2016
Genres: Contemporary, Fiction
Pages: 390
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“Great swaths of her life were white space to her husband. What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did. Still, there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences, and Mathilde had only ever lied to Lotto in what she never said.”
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
Published by Riverhead Books on July 23rd, 2019
Genres: Language, Non-Fiction
Pages: 336
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“Like the big collaborative projects of the internet, such as Wikipedia and Firefox, like the decentralized network of websites and machines that make up the internet itself, language is a network, a web. Language is the ultimate participatory democracy. To put it in technological terms, language is humanity’s most spectacular open source project.”
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