GG started reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook’s potential and knew it …
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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook’s potential and knew it …
I love Nelo Case, and I wanted to love this memoir, but I felt like it was mostly the story of her making sense of her childhood and adolescence and moving past the way it affected her, and that’s a great reason to spend time in therapy, but a less great reason to write a book. I related to a lot of it, and I enjoyed her prose style, but I felt like I could have skipped it.
Not exactly a relaxing read, but essential learning for Americans in 2025. This first book of three covers the incidents, political maneuvers, and social trends that started in WWI and eventually led to the Nazis taking power.
"Brilliant.” —Washington Post
"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of …
An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in “slummy, one-horse towns”; obsessive desire; bursts of …
I enjoyed The Overstory, but thought it was a bit overstuffed with characters and could have used a better editor. The author must have gotten that feedback from others, because Playground gets it just right. It's a little too on-the-nose with setting up characters who represent opposing views of "technology will save us" versus "technology will ruin us," but I loved the way the story unfolded and the lyrical descriptions of the underwater world.
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of …
Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, …
I was getting very tired of this book until I got to the last 15-20%. And then I LOVED it. I wish the first 80-85% had been tightened up a bit. And, no spoilers, but the structure is an exact copy of a 2019 book that was turned into a limited series a few years ago. We read it for my book club, and I’m not sure we’ll have too much to talk about, as everything about it is relatively light and forgettable. It was nevertheless an entertaining read.
From the New York Times best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About a story of heartbreak and friendship …
A subtle and beautiful portrait of post-World War II Japan, viewed through the eyes of an unreliable narrator. It examines the way the people who supported the totalitarian society (and informed on their friends and neighbors) dealt with their guilt (or lack thereof) and social ostracism.