"In a chaotic and distressing year, books provided a respite, a chance to commune with works of coherent voice and vision. Some people find it harder to read during days overflowing with one-minute distractions and incessant notifications, but when I took the time, I was rewarded with a slightly bigger foothold in a world of decency, humanity, patience, and compassion. Here are 10 good reasons to give that a try."
"Like many of her co-workers, she's Filipina, and most of her salary goes to digging her extended family out of the financial hole they fell into with the 2008 recession. Tough and sardonic, Girlie is also almost reflexively filial, so when she's offered a fabulous salary to moderate for a burgeoning VR company providing multiuser experiences of Viking raids and tours of Rome (as well as a surprisingly potent therapeutic mode), she can't refuse."
"Moderation expertly weaves a lacerating examination of the tech industry (Girlie feels most at home in the VR medieval theme park because, as far as she's concerned, feudalism never ended) into a story of exasperating familial love, centered around Girlie's attachment to people she finds "too beautiful to look at; she loved them more than her own life; they were the most annoying people she'd ever met and she couldn't fucking get rid of them.""
Books provided a respite during a chaotic year, offering coherent voice and vision that rewarded readers with a foothold in decency, humanity, patience, and compassion despite one-minute distractions and incessant notifications. One novel follows Girlie Delmundo, a long-serving Filipino content moderator who sends most of her salary home and accepts a lucrative job moderating VR multiuser experiences that range from Viking raids to tours of Rome. The novel binds a lacerating critique of the tech industry to an exasperating, filial love. Another work examines a cluster of Pacific Northwest serial killers, centering its inquiry on Ted Bundy.
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