![]() But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. ![]() ![]() She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress.Īnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener-stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial-left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kepnes explained the darkness of You, which deconstructs the romantic-comedy tropes highlighted in many films and shows by making the protagonist a violent stalker and serial killer, saying it was written in a dark period of her life, the year her father died of cancer, and in which she experienced several other personal challenges. In 2014 Kepnes released her first novel of the thriller series, You. In addition to her work as a writer, she performed as a background character in the television series The $treet. In an interview with the Boston Globe Kepnes said her first paid writing gig was an article on boy bands, for Tiger Beat magazine. Later, she obtained an undergraduate degree in American Civilization and worked as an entertainment reporter for Entertainment Weekly. ![]() After graduation, she commenced her studies at Brown University. Her father was Jewish and Kepnes identifies as " half-Jewish." During her formative years, she attended Barnstable High School. Kepnes was born November 1976 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() She is best known for her novel series You, consisting of You (2014), Hidden Bodies (2016), You Love Me (2021), and the forthcoming For You and You Only (2023), writing for the 2018–present Lifetime/ Netflix television series adaptation of the same name, and the stand-alone novel Providence (2018). Caroline Kepnes (born 10 November 1976) is an American writer, screenwriter, author, and former entertainment reporter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s quick, delicious, gluten and allergy-free. This recipe saved me the boredom of eating the same thing again and I think you’d appreciate it too. Cuban-Inspired Black Beans and Rice with Collard Greens and Pan-Fried PlantainsĬarb-A-Licious Rice Recipes Classic Vegetable Fried Rice Strength & Sunshine. ![]()
![]() ![]() X-Men choose to defend mutant kind and humanity, but anyone who wishes not to be a part of the men in tights brigade is free to try to live a normal life. ![]() Kingdom Come acknowledges the god-status of DC’s heroes, and then brings them down several notches because of it. They were character you could imagine yourself being, if something happened to mutate your genes. In comparison, X-Men, my biased favourites, were far more human, even with their more elaborate powers. Sure they have their flaws, but even Batman seemed to be above humanity thanks to his money and abilities. ![]() Their heroes have always been untouchable gods. I should have read this a long time ago, but I’ve always had issue with DC comics. Graphic Novel Review: Kingdom Come by Mark Waid ![]() ![]() ![]() Trained as a mathematician, behavioral psychologist and engineer, Musil, who died in 1942, had worked as a journalist, librarian and civil servant before devoting his energies exclusively to literature. Musil's sense that with the destruction of his public he had ''outlived himself'' underlines the not quite facetious title, ''Posthumous Papers of a Living Author.'' His audience, never large, had been reduced to a small group, predominantly Jewish and even more endangered than he. ![]() By 1935 he was both impoverished and horrified by Austrian politics. So often ahead of his time, the archivist of social estrangement seems to have anticipated this exile. But it was first published a year later in Switzerland, the country he fled to in 1938 following the Anschluss. A congeries of light sketches, composed for Austrian and German newspapers between 19, it was compiled in 1935 when Musil was still living in Austria. SINCE so little of Robert Musil's work is available in English, this collection's appearance is a major literary event. POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A LIVING AUTHOR By Robert Musil. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here are 3 of the most insightful lessons about geography from this book: Marshall uses examples from ten different crucial regions to explain that the world’s balance of power has everything to do with something as simple as the lay of the land. In Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall, we see world politics through the lens of a geographer. And sadly, these leaders and their people often become prisoners of that geography. More often than you probably realize, leaders’ choices are limited by things like mountains, oceans, rivers, and concrete. ![]() The geographic features and resources of the land you live in actually have a lot to do with not only the strength of the economy but how well your country has fared in wars. While Risk is just a board game, this idea extends into the real world. If you have, you know that geography has a significant effect on how well you do. Have you ever played the popular board game Risk. ![]() Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]() ![]() ![]() Success means personal prosperity: a fine home, vacations, travel, new things, financial security, giving your children maximum advantages. Success means many wonderful, positive things. ![]() He proves that you don’t need to be an intellectual or have innate talent to attain great success and satisfaction-but you do need to learn and understand the habit of thinking and behaving in ways that will get you there. Schwartz presents a carefully designed program for getting the most out of your job, your marriage and family life, and your community. The Magic of Thinking Big gives you useful methods, not empty promises. Schwartz, long regarded as one of the foremost experts on motivation, will help you sell better, manage better, earn more money, and-most important of all-find greater happiness and peace of mind. Millions of people throughout the world have improved their lives using The Magic of Thinking Big. Achieve everything you always wanted: financial security, power and influence, the ideal job, satisfying relationships, and a rewarding, happy life. ![]() Millions of readers have acquired the secrets of success through The Magic of Thinking Big. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her reward is a sentence of death.įleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts:Ī broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home.Ī drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own.Īn imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact - one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe. ![]() Download a FREE sneak peek today!Ī gifted student foretells an apocalypse. An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reader has more information than anyone, understands when a character says, for example, “I found it in the attic.” what they are really referring to even if no one else does. Area X infested my dreams every night I was reading and they were some of the most unpleasant I can recall in recent memory, and I dream pretty vividly. ![]() Few series have haunted me the way Southern Reach has. There are small revelations that will rock you, sentences so sharp you’ll bleed from their passage. In this case an entire government agency is formed and ends up being corrupted by what they were created to investigate. Stories of horror that are not so much about gore, but about the effect an event has on the people involved and how they deal with it. These are the kinds of books I find myself drawn to. It’s an ecological disaster story at heart but spends considerable amount of time examining the people and things that are exposed to the mysterious Area X and detailing the effects it has on them. The trilogy is LOST crossed with an apocalyptic Lovecraft scenario. Southern Reach Trilogy is a smart and scary science fiction story that offers literate thrills for those willing to stick through it. “Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead…” ![]() ![]() ![]() The Clue in the Diary is the 7th Nancy Drew mystery and features Nancy with her friends, the cousins George and Bess, and her new friend Ned Nickerson. I remember borrowing the Nancy Drew stories – I even have a visual memory of the carousel in Daventry Library that housed them – but I can’t remember anything more about them… that is, until now. ![]() I have always loved books with a passion and, although I didn’t have very many, the books that I owned as a child are the ones that were re-read and they are the stories that stayed with me most vividly. ![]() It’s been a very long time since I last read a Nancy Drew story – I would have been around 9 years old and borrowing them from my local library, along with many, many other books which I devoured, particularly in the school holidays. The Clue in the Diary – Nancy Drew Mystery No. ![]() |