Careless People is the memoir from Sarah Wynn-Williams who worked at Facebook from 2011-2017 as the global public policy director. A former diplomat and lawyer she joined believing they needed someone with an understanding of foreign diplomacy. She was hired, but for a time, no one knew what to do with her, as Mark Zuckerberg was still plucking the American low-lying fruit of ... Read More...
May Reading Recap
May turned into quite a month for my reading and beyond. There’s plenty to share, but for now, I’ll stick with some of the books that stuck with me (and a couple that missed the mark). Daniel is a criminal profiler who works finding serial killers. He’s chosen this line of work because he’s haunted by having seen an abducted boy at a highway rest stop when he was ... Read More...
April Reading Recap
April has come and gone and we’re once again in the middle of spring in Seattle—a welcome mix of rain, sunshine, and everything in bloom. Every window in our house looks out onto a gorgeous explosion of color whether it’s a crimson rhododendron outside my office or a front yard carpeted with pink cherry blossom petals, looking like the aftermath of some joyous ... Read More...
The Bright Years
Four generations of one Texas family unfold on the pages of Sarah Damoff’s intimate debut, The Bright Years. What begins with the simple act of falling in love turns into something deeper and more profound as secrets and addiction pull apart the loving trio of father Ryan, mother Lillian, and daughter Georgette (Jet), leaving each to manage the fallout. The novel is told in ... Read More...
Three Days in June
Her daughter, Debbie, is getting married in three days and Gail Baines has been fired (or did she quit?) from her job so she’s irritable. Not to mention the fact that she wasn’t even invited to Debbie’s bridal spa day. This is Gail’s life when Three Days in June by Anne Tyler opens. But that’s not enough on the bingo card of her life. When she finally makes it to her quiet ... Read More...
Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Because we’re all still recovering from any number of financial upheavals, be it taxes or the stock market I’m sticking with easy reading that pays off. Is She Really Going Out With Him? has a very similar premise to Monday’s book—a single woman at a media company forced out of her professional comfort zone in an effort to save her job. Also, in both cases it involves the world ... Read More...
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