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The Winter of Our Disconnect: How One Family Pulled the Plug and Lived to Tell/Text/Tweet the Tale
by Susan Maushart
 If Thoreau could last two years in the woods without the mod-cons of the early nineteenth century (running water), then surely Susan Maushart can survive six months without the technology of the twenty-first century? But then, Thoreau didn't have teenagers ... or an iPhone ... or Facebook ...
A chronicle of how Maushart and her family went 6 months without using 21st century technology, such as mobile phones, MP3 players, laptops and the internet. They ditched all electronic devices and learnt other ways of communicating across the generation divide, bringing their family closer together.
For any parent who has ever yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage - this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will also challenge you to take stock of your own family connections and bring you to ask yourself pertinent questions about your own usage. Such as: Should a fifty-year old woman have a pet name for her laptop? Or take her iPod to bed with her?
... A frank, funny and incredibly inspiring memoir (it will have you dusting off your board games) we share in her many, many successes ..... Hilariously entertaining but sobering and informative read... Thoreau would no doubt have approved ....
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