This review is going to be one massive spoiler, just FYI. If you haven’t read this book and you intend to—and you want to be surprised—quit right here. K’bye. Come back and see me after you’ve read it (or maybe, in the future, after you’ve watched the miniseries). Because I mostly want to talk about the … More Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win: “this review is going to be one massive spoiler”

Everyone was talking about Pachinko and I knew that I’d probably read it at some point but I also knew that every time I picked it up in a bookstore, something inside me whispered not yet.  I mean, the heft of this book is intimidating. The paperback version clocks in at a reasonable-sounding 479 pages … More Pachinko: “worth the long-term commitment”

Every now and then, I get a book recommendation from someone who either thinks I’m a far more highbrow reader than I actually am or is angling for praise in a “look at how plugged in/existential/woke I am that I have read THIS book!” sense. In the case of Asymmetry, you should know that this … More Asymmetry: “I read 57% of this book”

  I’ve been obsessed with the Theranos saga since Vanity Fair’s September 2016 article “How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down.” From there, I went on to read everything I could find about Theranos. Here was a trailblazing woman, the world’s first self-made billionaire. (On borrowed dollars.) Here was a product some of … More Bad Blood: “the opposite of imposter syndrome”