The Circle runs everything - all your internet activity in one easy, safe and visible place... Mae Holland goes to work there and it takes over her life.

Good book! I will update the JE when I find my review notes.

This book has been released as part of the following BookCrossing challenges:
- The Ultimate Challenge - read and release books, with extra points for a monthly theme
- Reduce Mount TBR (To Be Read) - read and release books on the TBR list since before the end of the previous year.

A lot of people are talking, still, about this book, and it is on the list for literature students, so I picked it up!

! This entry does contain spoilers!

For years there was this happy time when those controlling the major internet conduits were actually decent enough people.

Maybe I've read the best book of 2019 already! The Circle has ideas about things like influencers and transparancy that were visionary. More and more people get famous being openly transparent on the net, becoming influencers, becoming a brand in themselves.

My God, Mae thought. It's heaven
This was a striking part in the story, where those in charge were thinking, kept thinking, this was heaven. They were having the believe, this is heaven, this is the best for humanity. As Mae was thinking when she had the choice of ending it, about 13.000 young people jobless, about her world, she loved, in ruins.

Besides the parable of Facegoogle, is this novel in its core a story about a very insecure young women Mae, who desperately wants security in her life, feeling secure while doing repetitive works answering surveys, something I can relate to. She desperately searches for peace in her body and mind and feels she can achieve this being transparent, she wants to be seen (by everybody) and able to see (everyone). I think this is something a lot of us feel. I rather liked Mae. She is overwhelmed by the story of the Circle, as we all are with the real life ( :) ) counterparts. Where she in the beginning is wondering 'Why did he not just ask me?', and did things without any record online whats however, she gets sucked in, having the feeling thrown at her by the Circle that everything should be a story, that should be shared, because privacy is theft.

I liked the ending, where the last person with private thoughts is Mae's friend who is in a coma, but has brain activity. They are wondering, wondering!, what she thinks. They don't know. Let's not forget, wondering is a good thing.

I was searching for answers on my own behavior online while reading this book. Am I posting because I want to, or because I like to be liked?

This book is reserved to go with me to Florence to be released there.

Left I it on my way to Uffizi.

Picked this book up in a Little Free Library near American Village Park in Durham, NC (link will take you to it), and then proceeded to consume it. Here is my review of the book from StoryGraph.

Time to set it free!

Mailed to BookCrossing user Valpete who had this book on her wishlist. Enjoy!

Thanks for this book. It will join others on my TBR shelf and wait its turn.