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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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From Here to the Great Unknown

Catherine — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:48:37 +0000

Those of us outside looking in, mired in our everyday lives, tend to mythologize celebrities and what their lives look like. The greater the star the larger they loom. This is even true for the children of the famous and in that realm, Elvis Presley’s daughter was tabloid fodder from the day she was born. […]

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Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

Catherine — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:16:41 +0000

I certainly can’t speak for all of you, but I’m still adrift this week trying to deal with feelings of disbelief and dread. I have a tremendous need for comfort in my reading and thankfully, I found it from one woman who on the surface may have appeared shy and self-effacing, but who has […]

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Rabbit Heart

Catherine — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:14:10 +0000

But doubting our terror is what we’ve been trained to do. Imagine being eight years old and awakened on what should be a normal school morning by your father and older brother sitting on the side of your bed. They tell you that your mother has been kidnapped and your father cries. This is where […]

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Coming Home by Brittney Griner

Catherine — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:56:23 +0000

I don’t know much about women’s basketball, but I certainly know the name Brittney Griner. She is the WNBA player for the Phoenix Mercury who was wrongfully detained in Russia when cannabis vape cartridges were discovered in her luggage. She recounts her harrowing story in the memoir Coming Home. For years Griner supplemented her income […]

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Sociopath: A Memoir

Catherine — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:14:34 +0000

It wasn’t until the 70s and 80s that men like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy entered the national public consciousness. Their horrific crimes birthed new terms that have now become almost commonplace and are used seriously (and sometimes in jest amongst friends): psychopath and sociopath. But what are the actual definitions of those terms […]

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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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The Many Lives of Mama Love

Catherine — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:53:04 +0000

It’s a picture-perfect Saturday in Northern California with soccer parents lining the field and watching their kids play. As the game winds down most mothers go to retrieve their young, but Lara Love hangs back. And surreptitiously lifts cash out of a wallet in one of the handbags left behind in the stands. She moves […]

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All the Beauty in the World

Catherine — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:42:37 +0000

Patrick Bringley is in his 20s and working at his dream job at The New Yorker magazine when a tragedy strikes his family that leaves him unable to give the job what it requires. His grief is such that he quits, looking for a way to make money, but also to escape. All the Beauty […]

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I’m Glad My Mom Died

Catherine — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:26:58 +0000

How to review a memoir with a title so jarring I felt bad for even looking at it? Especially as my mother has always been one of the biggest supporters of my writing and reads every review (Hi, Mom, I love you!). Here goes. Jennette McCurdy was a child actor on a popular Nickelodeon show […]

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