Anna Wiener – Cannonball Read 17

Willingly In the Valley Still Means You’re Underground

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

January 17, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

This book is the Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead for the Silicon Valley non-tech set. Which is to say, it is peak all the feminisms that we have tried to be better about since Ms. Sandberg’s book, aka White Feminism x High Paying Job Feminism x One of the Boys Feminism etc etc. That being said…I am, in my default, unexamined state, very much a White, High Paying Job, One of the Boys feminist. It takes constant work for me to plant intersectionality […]

Technocracy

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener

September 6, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

By design, I know as little about the tech world as possible. I’ve never spent time in northern California, rarely read tech articles (except if they’re bashing the gaetekeepers of social media), and just generally avoid news of that world. I’ve been dipping my toe in the water lately, first with Bad Blood and now this one. That has less to do with curiosity about the world they depict and more to their popularity. I’m glad this one was written by someone my age because I don’t […]

Massive catch up, varied quality

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

May 12, 2020 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid This was one I did not want to have to reduce to a catch-up post but here we are, too many books and too little time. Everyone everywhere is raving about Such a Fun Age and for a damn good reason. This is the rare book that is both quality good and can’t-put-it-down good. The story opens with Emira Tucker, part-time nanny to a wealthy family in Philadelphia, helping her employer out in a midnight emergency and taking her […]

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