VOX: One of the most talked about dystopian fiction books and Sunday Times best sellers

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Sometimes the books are tongue-in-cheek about the cause with caricatures of current leaders or allegories of dangerous political ideals. I love that the mechanism doesn’t inhibit your ability to read the book on its own because all of the books we tried were good in and of themselves, so we were able to enjoy reading them many times without the books “talking” to us too. It’s of a piece with the preposterous setup, the payoff-heavy writing and the casual appropriation of some of humanity’s most heinous instruments of oppression – labour camps, electrified restraints – in the service of a thriller. the basic premise is straightforward: it’s a near-future dystopia in which white christian conservative male fundies have come to power and figured out how to keep all of us hysterical, mouthy women down - a metal “word counter” shackled around the female wrist that delivers an electric shock, of increasing intensity, for every word spoken that exceeds a woman’s daily allotment of 100.

My daughter always seems to want me to read to her when I am cooking dinner, and Vox Books really came in clutch here! Jean, as linguistic specialist, knows better than anyone what will happen if a child is denied language or an adult is forced to stifle all forms of communication.Upon reading the premise of Vox, I knew it would have a place on my reading list because of its timeliness and the bravery of the author in taking on this fictional topic. That's right, I picked a hot button topic and managed to annoy people on both sides (that is pretty impressive).

On the release of Vox, Publishers Weekly declared it was "unaccountably self-indulgent" and that "Baker's inestimable gift, evinced in the other books, for describing the indescribable with absolutely spot-on flourishes are nowhere to be found in Vox. Imagine a man would say "Oh you're not a real woman because you don't wear makeup" or "All girls like to play with dolls" EVERYONE WOULD LOSE THEIR SHIT.At the two-thirds mark, Vox morphs from a glum prophecy into a Hollywood-style thriller, complete with gun-totin’ bad guys growling, “Don’t do anything stupid, Jean”, and a wrap-up so convenient it beggars belief. It was particularly haunting to alternate reading this novel with listening to the third Maggie Hope mystery, set primarily in WWII Berlin.

Be teachers of good things; teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands.The demand for these have exceeded our expectations and we’ve now increased our budget for these cutting-edge virtual and immersive books. There were some concerns about the impact on staff; however, we have found that the impact has been minimal. Women in all the country wore some sort of torturing devices like bracelets on their wrists (as well as young girls, no matter the age) that only allowed them to speak one hundred words per day. and that stupidity could have easily occurred because of a willful desire to not be living in the society they are in.