A colleague recommended Garlic and Sapphires to me a few years ago, and I absolutely loved it – so when I saw Ruth Reichl was coming out with a new book I needed to read…
Browsing Category Non-Fiction
Guest Review – The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone by Robin Green
Coming of age in the period of beats, hippies, and free love, Robin Green went from waitress to free-lance journalist for Rolling Stone virtually overnight. After using an old college connection to secure a meeting,…
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Society loves comparisons. We are obsessed with finding “the next”, the next Michael Jackson (Bruno Mars), the next Lebron James (Anthony Davis), the next Steve Jobs… Elizabeth Holmes. The Founder of Theranos appeared on the…
The Glitch by Elisabeth Cohen
This quirky read is Eleanor Oliphant meets Silicone Valley. Thank you to the Blonde Bookworm and Double Day for our copy!!! Shelley Stone is CEO of Conch, a tech startup for a device that sits…
Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian
In 1996, Sports Illustrated called Tiger Woods “The Chosen One”, but who chose him? God? Golf? The media? The public? The simplest answer to that question may be “All of the above”. From an early…
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
Want the inside scoop on back room deals and dirty money of the world’s most infamous, Wall Street investor? Go watch Billions. Steve Cohen may be the real Bobby Axelrod, but this non-fiction account focuses…
The Widow Cliquot by Tilar Mazzeo – Caity’s Guest Review!
Pop. Fizz. Clink. The ubiquitous sounds of celebration. Sparkling wines have become synonymous with jubilant festivities. The most famous and luxurious of those is Champagne, termed for the region from where it is crafted….