Visual Bookshelf, which I guess is an application I downloaded to my Facebook page at some point (but have since removed from the main page), sent me an e-mail recently worried that
You’ve been reading ‘The Mother Tongue’ for more than a week. Still true?
Which is weird because I finished reading the book sometime in November — so if I didn’t remove it from the list, it’s been there for well over a week. They haven’t sent me notices about any of the other books I was reading then. And is it really so unusual to be reading a book for more than a week? Enough that it requires a little nagging e-mail?
Maybe it thought you didn’t read it carefully enough?
Or I was reading it too carefully?
Sound like Big Brother is turning into Big Mother.
“Did you finish reading that book yet? And did you take out the trash yet? Why can’t you just do that without being asked, for once in your life!”