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#Emptyshelf17 #23 The Circle by Dave Eggers

July 13, 2017December 11, 2017 by Digital Fingerprint

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The Circle by Dave Eggers My rating: 4 of 5 stars I watched the film first - I don't know if that was a good move or not, as there's some definite oddities in the film. The book's much better, and is a real challenge as to who has the…

#EmptyShelf 2016 #27: Mind Games by @TeriTerryWrites (Orchard Books, 2015)

May 24, 2016June 1, 2016 by drbexl

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I spoke at a children's book event the other year, and this book - Mind Games - was one of the pre-press books that I picked up .. I love teenage books - good moral message, typically fairly fast paced, and always lots to think about. With echoes of books such…

#EmptyShelf 2016 #23: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury, 2015)

April 9, 2016April 10, 2016 by drbexl

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Mentioning to a friend that I have always enjoyed dystopian/utopian (futurist) fiction (it always seemed to be a staple of my teenage reading, and more recently, books such as The Hunger Games, and TV series such as Black Mirror and Mr Robot), having just re-read the Divergent trilogy, he suggested I should try (and…

#TandT16 Tools and Trends 2016

December 2, 2015December 5, 2015 by drbexl

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Monday evening I enjoyed listening to Martin Bryant discussing tools and trends for 2016 and beyond: [View the story "#TandT16" on Storify]

E-Learning in 2020?

October 4, 2009January 23, 2016 by Digital Fingerprint

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Things are changing rapidly, but I can't see quite how we'd get to this state in less than 11 years! Interesting idea none the less, and quite amusing...