The link below is to a book review of ‘Fire and Fury – Inside the Trump White House,’ by Michael Wolff.
For more visit:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/14/fire-and-fury-michael-wolff-inside-trump-white-house-review
The link below is to an article that takes a look at how you can increase the amount of reading you do each year.
For more visit:
https://qz.com/895101/in-the-time-you-spend-on-social-media-each-year-you-could-read-200-books/
The link below is to an article reporting on a copyright and piracy crisis that is looming for the Internet Archive.
For more visit:
https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/01/09/sfwa-finally-notices-internet-archives-decade-old-open-library-decides-piracy/
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I don’t believe this book to be exceptionally well written and neither do I like the way the author went about getting his information and the confidence of those he wrote about. Sure, the guy in charge is a fool, but I don’t believe that warrants the loss of morality to prove what is already known anyway.
There are probably a few previously unknown observations made in the book, but having closely followed the first year of the Trump presidency from ‘Down Under (as best I can from here), I don’t think there is anything substantially new in the book. It is, however, a good summation of the state of the US government under Trump, his leadership (or lack thereof) and the pathetic sycophantic actions/reactions of his minions in the West Wing.
I did enjoy the read if that is how one can describe such depressing incompetency in national leadership, and I believe it is probably a reasonable epitome of the Trump presidency.
The link below is to an article that considers that difficult question, ‘when should I just give up on this terrible book?’
For more visit:
https://bookriot.com/2018/01/05/the-value-of-abandoning-a-book/
The link below is to an article that considers what the future may bring for reading when combined with virtual reality.
For more visit:
https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/will-vr-be-the-future-of-reading
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