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José Kiko _ose_iko — I'd heard about Nicholas Carr before, but only briefly and the people discussing him didn't like what he had to say about whatever book or books they'd read of his. I knew nothing about him except that he wrote about technology. Last week someone on Facebook posted a link to an article about reading which mentioned Nicholas Carr's new book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. The quote caught my attention because it mentioned Narnia and Susan Pevensie, my favorite character in the series: "But then there are the people Nicholas Carr writes about in The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, and Carr himself: people who know what it is like to be lost in a book, who value that experience, but who have misplaced it—who can't get back, as Lucy Pevensie for a time can't get back to Narnia; what was an opening to another world is now the flat planked back of a wardrobe. They're the ones who need help, and want it, and are prepared to receive it." Alan Jacobs in We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading Unfortunately it was Jacobs who inserted the Narnia image (he is, after all, a professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, home of The Wardrobe). Despite that omission, I actually enjoyed this book. I enjoyed it more at the beginning, before I started disagreeing with some of his theories, but since he was able to back up his theories with many references to publications and studies, who was I to argue? One part of the book I do agree with -- that the Internet is distracting. I do believe that it has become a huge distraction for me, especially when I consider what it has done to my reading habits. I used to read books constantly, but now I find it hard to get through one book a month. Although, given the right reading material (and this book was one example of that) I can lose myself in a book. It turns out that in 2008 I picked up a copy of The Atlantic with the ominous question, "Is Google Making us Stoopid?" The cover article, by Carrr was a precursor to this book. I never read the article though, not because it was not interesting, but because I was too distracted, probably by the Internet.

Joseph Oh peaceoh5764 — this has got to be one of my most favorite reads in recent years. i loved "the virgin suicides" and picked up this one just b.c i loved his first novel. there's a reason this won the pulizter.... it's AMAZING.

Kea Ano tsiree60006aca — A land of no hope, in a book outside of time. The narrator and her three male friends, all quiet rebels in an oppressed post-war Romania, think their thoughts of freedom and wait with a sickening dread to be punished for them, despite doing little more than writing poetry and planning to emigrate. Muller makes a point of showing just how fragile human connections are in a society based on fear. She lives with various nice women, has a supportive mother, and holds onto her close friendship with Tereza, the daughter of a Party member. But all three of these do their best to force her to forget her dreams of freedom, and she is left to drag what remains across the border and to an eternally-compromised peace. Muller uses the word "transfinite" to describe the good and the bad in a fascist state - the mortal lasts forever when it is made part of the terror or the struggle against it. Told in rapid-fire statements that hop between place and time, the story is most moving when the narrator (based closely on Muller) meets her friends, and they try to defeat, through laughter, knowledge, and love, as much of the evil in the world as they can. According to Muller, even when success comes, the rewards are thin and haunted.

Robinswell Zhang robinswell — This is a fantastic book. I have to admit that I am not following his reading plan, but Fr. Hardon's plan has been extremely influential in helping me create my own. I have this by my desk because I am always looking through it. Fr. Hardon offers recommendations of books written by 104 different Catholic authors as well as a brief history and a wonderful bibliography of each author. The book would be worth getting just for the bibliography. I highly recommend this book and it would be marvelous to meet someone that has actually followed the good father's plan.