{"id":49363,"date":"2015-01-26T20:36:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/book-review-little-brother-by-corey-doctorow-2008.html"},"modified":"2015-01-26T20:36:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:36:56","slug":"book-review-little-brother-by-corey-doctorow-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/book-review-little-brother-by-corey-doctorow-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: &quot;Little Brother&quot; by Corey Doctorow (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: &#9679;&#9679;&#9679;&#9679;&#9679;<\/p>\n<p>My daughter has this as an assignment in Honors English (after <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four),<\/i> so I thought I&#39;d read it, first. I&#39;m glad I did, because it was a great book to read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1181246373'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/9anB9m8ljrCfbfWLmCuBJ2DvDKwXH5bvLv9DLjXUx1EpRqQsVB7ZrVfcQ1dLPqNT_TikW9n2V2yDxBuR5j3Sqz7cDgjpymq4IqZBn37JIsDjXqGs=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1181246373'>a review of Little Brother<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nI always enjoy Doctorow when I read him, but always have some odd reluctance to pick up his novels. In this case, that my daughter is reading the book in Freshman English (aft&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/VJPYRZDLcaV'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: &#9679;&#9679;&#9679;&#9679;&#9679; My daughter has this as an assignment in Honors English (after Nineteen Eighty-Four), so I thought I&#39;d read it, first. I&#39;m glad I did, because it was a great book to read. a review of Little Brother I always enjoy Doctorow when I read him, but always have some odd reluctance to pick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/book-review-little-brother-by-corey-doctorow-2008.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review: &quot;Little Brother&quot; by Corey Doctorow (2008)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49559,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/little-brother-is-not-watching-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":49363,"position":0},"title":"Little Brother Is Not Watching You","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Feb-15 12:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"+Kay Hill's Honors English class has been reading (among many other interesting things) both George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and +Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. 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