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Careless People: A Memoir

Catherine — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:47:35 +0000

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 […]

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November Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:06:49 +0000

November. I’ve been cautioned about staying out of politics and overreacting. Thanks for the advice, but it’s my blog and there are times when staying silent is not an option. The good news is that my rage of a thousand suns and despair for the future have subsided. The majority has spoken and now I’ll […]

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Exit Interview: The Life and Death of my Ambitious Career

Catherine — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:30:51 +0000

I’ve been on a roll with amazing memoirs and am thrilled to be back with another one. In Exit Interview Kristi Coulter leaves a secure, but boring marketing job in Ann Arbor, packs up her husband and their dog, and heads to Seattle. It’s 2006 and she’s decided she’s ready for the Wild West of […]

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Happy at Any Cost by Kirsten Grind

Catherine — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 07:09:46 +0000

As more entrepreneurs turn into billionaires and spend much of their fortunes on flying to space rather than on the problems of Earth, Tony Hsieh’s story is both inspiring and tragic. A man whose mission was to make people happy, but couldn’t find happiness for himself. I reviewed this biography last year, but it recently […]

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House of Gucci

Catherine — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 04:11:57 +0000

I’ve been having great luck with nonfiction recently. Part of it is due to a slew of well-written books, but I also seem to be getting better at knowing what kind of non-fiction works best for me. While I might like to read meaty history about places and people I know nothing about, let’s be […]

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Blowout by Rachel Maddow

Catherine — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:34:57 +0000

As you well know I’m not a big nonfiction fan, but like everything else in 2020, that fact is fiction right now. I’m enjoying a lot of nonfiction, especially audiobooks. So much so that I’m often scrolling through my online library catalog looking for something immediately available to listen to while I trudge up and […]

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From Scratch: Inside the Food Network

Catherine — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 07:07:19 +0000

A bit of backstory: in the early 2000s when my husband was traveling a great deal for work, we would talk at the end of the day. Several trips in a row, when we spoke, he said he had either grabbed something to eat on the way to the hotel or had room service (which […]

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Down the Up Escalator

Catherine — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:57:57 +0000

By fall 2010 there were 14 million officially unemployed Americans—40 percent of them classified as the long-term unemployed. An additional ten million were working part-time but said they wanted full-time jobs. Fifteen million more had dropped out of the labor force since this recession began. There is no shortage of books on what is known […]

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