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Marcy Sheiner

Marcy Sheiner

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I have searched six ways to Sunday but still cannot find the thread/topic where @OneEyedDiva said she wanted my take on the book Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult when I finished it. Well, I have finished it. I didn't like the ending at all. Too unresolved I was annoyed even in the middle when it turns out the Galapagos trip was a dream and she's been on a ventilator with Covid the whole time. And when she didn't marry Finn I suffered. And the absolute last event, when someone touches her and she turns, and the book just ends there. Hated that! I don't need a fairy tale happily ever after, but please, some resolution and connection to reality!
 

Marcy Sheiner said:
I have searched six ways to Sunday but still cannot find the thread/topic where @OneEyedDiva said she wanted my take on the book Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult when I finished it. Well, I have finished it. I didn't like the ending at all. Too unresolved I was annoyed even in the middle when it turns out the Galapagos trip was a dream and she's been on a ventilator with Covid the whole time. And when she didn't marry Finn I suffered. And the absolute last event, when someone touches her and she turns, and the book just ends there. Hated that! I don't need a fairy tale happily ever after, but please, some resolution and connection to reality!
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That was my opinion, too. I generally like her books, but as I stated in that thread, I didn't like the ending.

p.s. I believe I was the one who asked to hear your opinion on the book.

Books! How do you read and what do you read?
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
I have searched six ways to Sunday but still cannot find the thread/topic where @OneEyedDiva said she wanted my take on the book Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult when I finished it. Well, I have finished it. I didn't like the ending at all. Too unresolved I was annoyed even in the middle when it turns out the Galapagos trip was a dream and she's been on a ventilator with Covid the whole time. And when she didn't marry Finn I suffered. And the absolute last event, when someone touches her and she turns, and the book just ends there. Hated that! I don't need a fairy tale happily ever after, but please, some resolution and connection to reality!
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You sure that was me?! I don't remember that title nor why I would have been interested in reading it. I haven't read a book in a long time for a few reasons, though I have books here that need reading.
 

OneEyedDiva said:
You sure that was me?! I don't remember that title nor why I would have been interested in reading it. I haven't read a book in a long time for a few reasons, though I have books here that need reading.
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Don't bother with it, Diva. Like a lot of books written about the pandemic, it's not particularly good. My opinion and that of my book club - and we rarely all pan the same book.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
You sure that was me?! I don't remember that title nor why I would have been interested in reading it. I haven't read a book in a long time for a few reasons, though I have books here that need reading.
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Probably wasn't you, I just pulled your name out of my rusty memory. Idk how I'll find out who it was since I can't find the topic.
 
Jodi Picoult. I know that name, know the book you're talking about but can't remember if I read it, or if I ever read a book by this author. So much in my head, can't remember. Maybe? Maybe not?
 
I love this Wired magazine online excerpt from a book about the take down of Bitcoin criminals by a 2024 book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, on how a young attractive woman, Sarah Meiklejohn, who had grown up with a compulsion to solve puzzles, had single-handedly done what no others thought was possible.

This non-degree, mostly self taught person, that is little money oriented, knows almost nothing about Bitcoin but shares a developed ability to solve complex puzzles using logic, extracting information out of information that others remain confused over. In her case, living in this next generation computer age, she trained her mind through years of neural system plasticity to solve puzzles by using logic and structuring data in ways that her mind with effort was then able to piece together.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...n-s-anonymity?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

In my case, working on complex electronic hardware systems, my most valuable task was in debugging engineering development problems within complex semiconductor microcircuits and on complex printed circuit boards, that was often while looking through stereo microscopes. Decades ago that had to be done by hand pencil written notes on paper and in later years using early UNIX and DEC computers with their programs. For years, I would do so within labs, especially with the help of UNIX, Command Prompt commands, batch commands, and Excel. In the future, what Sarah Meiklejohn performed will be done with AI.

...This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system. That discovery would upend the world of cybercrime.

Bitcoin tracing would, over the next few years, solve the mystery of the theft of a half-billion dollar stash of bitcoins from the world’s first crypto exchange, help enable the biggest dark-web drug market takedown in history, lead to the arrest of hundreds of pedophiles around the world in the bust of the dark web’s largest child sexual abuse video site, and result in the first-, second-, and third-biggest law enforcement monetary seizures in the history of the US Justice Department.

That 180-degree flip in the world’s understanding of cryptocurrency’s privacy properties, and the epic game of cat-and-mouse that followed, is the larger saga that unfolds in the book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency...
 

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