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Title: This Is Your Brain on Shamrocks

Author: Mike Farragher

Narrator: Mike Farragher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-18

Publisher: This Is Your Brain on Shamrocks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Humorist Mike Farragher grew up Irish, Catholic, and guilty in the swamps of Hudson County, New Jersey. These humorous essays, read by the author, provide a side-splitting, sweet, and sometimes salty take on life, spirituality, parenting, and Celtic heritage. Tune in for a whiplash ride through the Irish American psyche!

Members Reviews:

Green Cherries

While reading Mike's book, I found myself privy to a part of his life that was part confession and the other "just a bowl of cherries." (Perhaps green ones that I remember from those flaming dishes at a favorite Chinese restaurant on Rt. 18) I almost found myself taking a pen and commenting on his experiences, directly on his pages that were too familiar to my own, but perhaps I should save those words for a more suitable space.

Mike has a wonderful, warm and witty way of bringing the everyday ...

Mike has a wonderful, warm and witty way of bringing the everyday to life. In reading Your Brain on Shamrocks so many of the day to day happenings of growing up in an Irish American family play out - many 'laugh out loud' moments! A really terrific read!

... have to be Irish to appreciate this book of wonderfully funny stories

Don't have to be Irish to appreciate this book of wonderfully funny stories. Couldn't wait for the next one to follow

Great read!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is well written - at times poignant, always hilarious.

Very enjoyable

"This Is Your Brain on Shamrocks" was a delightful book; clever, colourful, charming, and endearing, Mike Farragher blends wit and humour in the stories of his family and the Irish ancestry which formed his background.

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Title: Girls Like Us

Subtitle: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself

Author: Rachel Lloyd

Narrator: Rachel Lloyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself to helping other young girls escape "the life".

In Girls Like Us, Lloyd reveals the dark world of commercial sex trafficking in cinematic detail and tells the story of her groundbreaking nonprofit organization: GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. With great humanity, she shares the stories of the girls whose lives GEMS has helped - small victories that have healed her wounds and made her whole. Revelatory, authentic, and brave, Girls Like Us is an unforgettable memoir.

Members Reviews:

Horror with Hope - Important Reading

This book opened my eyes to many aspects of the sex industry, starting with the very fact that most "women" being bought and sold are actually underage girls (some not even teenagers) who have been forced into selling sex, first by a need to survive, then usually by violent means by the person taking the money. Rachel Lloyd weaves her own story in and out of the stories of the many girls she has helped, also providing stats and research. She addresses the pain and victimization of these girls by their pimps, johns, police, and even society that does not see them as real people. Somehow, she manages to tell all of this and leave the reader with hope along with immense admiration for her and the girls she serves.

A memoir filled with hope, desire, knowledge; brilliantly written; attention getting; a memoir you canât put down.

Rachel begins this memoir by explaining that she is the Executive Director of a Program named GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services). The program is designed to help girls and young women who have been recruited and trafficked into the commercial sex industry. GEMS is a place where the girls can come and receive counseling from caseworkers; learn different skills such as (poetry, cooking, boxing group); use computers or just simply hang out.

Rachel has a unique story of her own because she used to be a âCommercially Sexually Exploited Youth.â Rachel knows firsthand of the things that happened to a girl while they are in âThe Life.â As Rachel shares her story from the age of 13 until her mid-thirties; she explains the life of a trafficked child in rich detail. Rachel explains of key phrases and terminology used by the girls and those used by law enforcement. Rachel explains that politicians, officials, police and many other people have biases towards these girls. Rachel also explains several scenarios that would enlist a girl to be sexually exploited. Rachel gives us several stories of the girls that has entered and left the GEMS program. Rachel describes how pimps recruit young girls and also how they treat the same girls badly. Rachel explains how the media can affect the outcome of a case and how much help a person can get on a case.

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Title: Broken

Subtitle: A traumatised girl. Her troubled brother. Their shocking secret.

Author: Rosie Lewis

Narrator: Madeleine Gould

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.

Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year's Day and instantly recognises Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said, 'The biscuits'.

Social workers are concerned that Archie and Bobbi have been neglected. As Rosie gets to know the children, she begins to suspect that something far more disturbing lies in their past.

Archie, jovial and polite, bats away Rosie's attempts to talk to him about anything serious with witty one-liners and sophisticated distractions. Bobbi reacts violently, lashing out and throwing herself around. Rosie has never seen a child as young a Bobbi behaving so viciously, but it is Archie she is most concerned about as the weeks go by.

After a worrying incident at school, Archie tearfully discloses the truth - a shocking secret that has left him and his sister traumatised. Horrified at what she learns, Rosie is determined to help the young siblings find a forever home that will provide them with the love and care they deserve.

Members Reviews:

powerful and full of emotion.

This was another good book by this author, they are very hard to read because of the problems that a lot of the children in her care have to go threw but it's always heart warming to read about the care and love she shows them. Rosie always fights to do what is best for the children in her care and is determined to find out the truth so she can help them get the love they deserve. Bobby and Archie are 9 and five years old and are removed from there home after social services become concerned for there safety. Bobby throws tantrums and has regular melt downs that makes Rosie shocked to see such a young child behave in the way she does. However as the weeks progress it's Archie her brother who Rosie becomes more concerned about. after he finally reveals the secret of there past, Rosie is determined to make sure they find that forever home where they can be loved. Rosie is a great foster carer who does everything she can for the children in her care even sometimes going beyond the call of duty. The reader handles the subject matter very sensitively and reads the books very well. Looking forward to hopeful future books by this author.

Good but not great

I love Rosie's writing, but the ending of this book felt incredibly rushed. One minute everything hangs precariously in the balance, the next it's a happy ending for all involved. It was the first time one of her books disappointed me.

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Title: Nearly Normal

Subtitle: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself

Author: Cea Sunrise Person

Narrator: Cea Sunrise Person

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-13-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of the best-selling memoir North of Normal comes the harrowing story of a past that won't let go, and one woman's attempt to put her life back together after everything falls apart.

In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.

At the age of 37, Cea has built a life that looks like the normal one she craved as a child - husband, young son, beautiful house, enviable career. But her carefully art-directed world is about to crumble around her. As she confronts the death of her still-young mother, the disintegration of her second marriage and the demise of her business, all within a few months, she finally faces the need to look at her past to make sense of her present.

The Globe and Mail says "Person's best gifts as a writer are her memory, her knack for knowing when to dig down into the finer details of a scene, and when to pull back." Nearly Normal chronicles the many stories Cea left untold but that needed telling. Settled into a new and much happier life after the release of her first book, she is nonetheless compelled to continue searching for answers about her enigmatic family. She discovers the value in the lessons they taught her, and the power of taking responsibility for her own choices.

Members Reviews:

The reader derives a better comprehension of her teenage years and her first two ...

A touching follow up to her first memoir. Person fills in the gaps she left out from her first book. The reader derives a better comprehension of her teenage years and her first two marriages. It's a great supplement to accompany her first book.

Perfect follow up âï

I love it as much as I did her first book ! Both titles are at the top of my favorites list and will stay there ;) And to think they almost were never published ! ?????

Another brave book

What courage to reveal all of a tough, traumatic childhood. What strength through the struggle. The mixed timelines made this one tricky to follow at times, but always riveting.

Five Stars

Loved it!

Amazing survival story and very well written

Amazing survival story and very well written. I read Cea's first novel and looked forward to reading her latest book "Nearly Normal". My daughter read each one first and then suggested I read them. An unbelievable story and a must read!

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Title: Midnight Express

Author: William Hoffer, Billy Hayes

Narrator: Billy Hayes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-17

Publisher: Curly Brains Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Midnight Express tells the gut-wrenching true story of a young man's incarceration and escape from a Turkish prison. A classic story of survival and human endurance told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became the Academy Award-winning blockbuster film of the same name.

In 1970, Billy Hayes was an English major who left college in search of adventures to write about, like his hero Jack London. He had a rude awakening when he was arrested at the airport in Istanbul trying to board a plane while carrying four pounds of hashish, and given a life sentence. After five brutal years, relentless efforts by his family to gain his release, and endless escape-plotting, Hayes finally took matters into his own hands. On a dark night in a wailing storm, he began a desperate and daring escape to freedom.

This is the astounding journey, told in Billy Hayes' own words, of those five years of living hell and of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run.

Members Reviews:

Interesting story !

A well told story of a chance risked.

Enjoyed it.

True Story.

Harsh time experience told.

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Title: My Sisters the Saints

Subtitle: A Spiritual Memoir

Author: Colleen Carroll Campbell

Narrator: Susan Hanfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In My Sisters the Saints, author Colleen Carroll Campbell blends her personal narrative of spiritual seeking, trials, stumbles, and breakthroughs with the stories of six women saints who profoundly changed her life: Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Faustina of Poland, Edith Stein of Germany, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Mary of Nazareth.

Drawing upon the rich writings and examples of these extraordinary women, the author reveals Christianity's liberating power for women and the relevance of the saints to the lives of contemporary Christians.

Members Reviews:

Anyone who has struggled &found them self in darkness.

I have tow children one daughter &one son they are 18 years apart I had my daughter when I was 21 & my son 39yrs. I struggle having my second child although I didn't know much about Mary as a Catholic I knew that if Elizabeth& Sharia could have one in old age there was nothing our Lord could not do only if we ask & believe with faith is the key trusting in what you can't see. Also for the broken hearted from dreams never full fill women who have struggled I a marriage. For all the mom's that gave up everything in life .Nevertheless me a carrier for raising children' not knowing what to do next still too young to be a grandmother .Life may feel empty know And you may find yourself ' lonely because all you ever knew was to raise children .Please know you are bless in eyes of God for you had the most important role in your life not as the world see it but as Christ see it.

full of good information, and very personal

Engaging, full of good information, and very personal. It's a story of her journey through early adult life and is enjoyable to read. Great look at the Catholic faith, especially for newcomers who also have questions about saints and the Church in general.

Refreshingly candid!

Ms Campbell has written a refreshingly candid and engaging autobiography using Saints as signposts for significant events in her life. Like other reviewers I could not put this story down. When discussing her problems getting pregnant I wanted to shout the name "Saint Gianna". Suddenly Ms. Campbell mentions Cardinal Raymond Burke who presented her with a Relic of Saint Gianna Beretta Molla. The funny thing is that we were the ones who supplied the relics to then Bishop Burke. This kind of full circle has happened a lot to our Society of Saint Gianna. Anyway, this book is worth your time. I highly recommend it.

Joe Cunningham

Founder and President Emeritus

The Society of Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

Exceeded my expectations!

Colleen Carroll Campbell has put together a wonderful memoir of her life, and sharing how the women saints were instrumental in the challenges. She has given us a glimpse of herself, allowing us to feel her deepest feelings and desires, joys and struggles in both her personal life and work. What a gift of writing she has been given; we are blessed that she has shared it with us.

A Book Where Faith and Life Meet.

For anyone asking how the Catholic faith can bring meaning and strength to the challenges of ordinary life, My Sisters the Saints is the book. Campbell's sincere and humble narrative of her journey of faith as she faces career choices, infertility, and her father's terminal illness will help many people find God in the midst of their daily struggles too.

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Title: Drama High

Subtitle: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater

Author: Michael Sokolove

Narrator: Mark Deakins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-17

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Soon to be a television series titled Rise, starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez - the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town.

Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of Les Misérables?

To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows such as Rent and Spring Awakening before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe's students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders.

Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe's, chronicles the drama director's last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.

Members Reviews:

U will be Inspired with a capital "I"

Mr. Sokolove has penned a rousing and hearty portrait of Levittown, PA drama teacher Lou Volpe. Most of us, I think, wish we'd been blessed with a teacher like Mr. Volpe, whose work over 40 years stimulated the impressionable minds of teens and magically transported them to a world of imagination and expansion, while invigorating their parents and inspiring a community that's had its fair share of struggles. It leaves no doubt that teachers have an opportunity to make a difference, to change the world (or at least a small, but significant, part of it).

I wish there a law was on the books requiring that anyone over 30 who thinks our schools don't need to, or even shouldn't, teach the arts, read this splendid and "Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town and the Magic of Theater."

Buy and read this book and u will be Inspired with a capital "I."

Outstanding and Inspiring

As a teacher, I can only hope to inspire students a fraction of the amount Mr. Volpe has. He has truly left a legacy and one can only imagine the far reaching impact of his guidance and inspiration. As a theater fan, I loved reading about the process of staging both the large scale musicals and the smaller, but equally important, plays that Mr. Volpe put together. There are so many gems within each page. I appreciate that along with the craft, students developed true respect for all aspects of theater. It is a testament to Mr. Volpe, his students, and the school district that three large scale, world-famous musicals entrusted their program with piloting the school editions. What an opportunity those students were given! This is a book that any fan of theater, teaching, or inspirational stories should not miss!

Writing and Story are Terrific

I've had the privilege of seeing several of Mr. Volpe's plays at Truman, and for most years his productions had more meaningful artistic content than many of the productions in professional regional theatre.

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Title: This Is Going to Hurt

Subtitle: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Author: Adam Kay

Narrator: Adam Kay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-17

Publisher: Picador

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships....

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, these diaries are everything you wanted to know and more than a few things you didn't about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.

Read by the author, this audiobook contains exclusive extra features, including an interview with the author by comedian and author Mark Watson, and extra diary entries not featured in the book.

Critic Reviews:

"Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable." (Stephen Fry)

Members Reviews:

Hilarious insight into the life of a junior doctor

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Couldn't recommend this book more highly, a must read for any soon-to-be or current medic.

Hilarious bite sized anecdotes from the under appreciated life of a junior doctor.

Any additional comments?

Would recommend this book 100% to anyone vaguely interested in medicine or the current state of the NHS.

Well written, Well told

Birth, death, and all the dirty stuff in between, Adam has written a fascinating account of being a Junior Doctor and beyond. In addition he tells his tales with the smoothness of a stage performer.

What's more, I'm a vet, and it's nice to know other medical professions get the same problems as we have. But nationalised, and with the health of the country on their shoulders.

Gods bless this NHS

Life is for enjoying not enduring.

If you could sum up This Is Going to Hurt in three words, what would they be?

Doctors need support.

What did you like best about this story?

The amount I learned.

What does Adam Kay bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

Feeling.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Made me feel deeply for all those people who give their all for so little monetary return having to rely on their inner mental and emotional strength.

Any additional comments?

A must read that enables you help those who are helping you.

A must listen

A compelling book. Interesting, eye opening, funny, sad, awe inspiring and well presented in audiobook by the author. A must listen in my humble opinion.

Brilliant!

The best book I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Adam Kay made me both howl with laughter and cry with sorrow. His writing is eloquent and his reading of the book is brilliant. I highly recommend it to everyone, Fellow NHS staff will empathise with him and his struggles. Non NHS staff should listen to it for an insight into a truly unique world.

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Title: Another Kind of Madness

Subtitle: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

Author: Stephen P. Hinshaw

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for 18 years within his family - that his father's mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth, during Hinshaw's first spring break from college, he knew his life would change forever.

Hinshaw calls this revelation his "psychological birth". After years of experiencing the ups and downs of his father's illness without knowing it existed, Hinshaw began to piece together the silent, often terrifying history of his father's life - in great contrast to his father's presence and love during periods of wellness. This exploration led to larger discoveries about the family saga, to Hinshaw's correctly diagnosing his father with bipolar disorder, and to his full-fledged career as a clinical and developmental psychologist and professor.

Critic Reviews:

"This heartfelt memoir shares insights into the effects of mental illness on all involved." (

Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Insightful, heartbreaking, and important

4.5 stars. Excellent blend of family history, medical history, and mental health history. Professor Hinshaw shines an unflinching light upon his family's history of mental illness, how the stigma attached to such mental illness shaped his family and his own life, and how it drove him into his profession in psychology and as a professor. Hinshaw explains evolving attitudes toward mental illness, the needless forced dichotomy between camps that believed it was either wholly biological or wholly environmental (when any treatment would have to admit dual if not various contributing factors), and the often horrible treatment that was the norm in the past. He explores how the stigma of mental illness meant his family hid the periodic disappearances of his own father, never explaining he was in mental health facilities and his mother never getting the support she needed to weather these absences. Hinshaw himself talks about his own struggles with a mind given to obsession and depression, and how learning about his family's history helped him evaluate his own situation and re-evaluate his father's diagnosis (eventually leading to much more effective treatment). A book that everyone should read as we seek to further demolish the stigma and deconstruct the forced silence that surrounds mental health.

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Title: Life in Code

Subtitle: A Personal History of Technology

Author: Ellen Ullman

Narrator: Ellen Ullman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This program is read by the author. The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine.

The last 20 years have brought us the rise of the Internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman lived and worked inside that rising culture of technology, and in Life in Code she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspective.

When Ellen Ullman moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and went on to become a computer programmer, she was joining a small, idealistic, and almost exclusively male cadre that aspired to genuinely change the world. In 1997, Ullman wrote Close to the Machine, the now classic and still definitive account of life as a coder at the birth of what would be a sweeping technological, cultural, and financial revolution.

Twenty years later, the story Ullman recounts is neither one of unbridled triumph nor a nostalgic denial of progress. It is necessarily the story of digital technology's loss of innocence as it entered the cultural mainstream, and it is a personal reckoning with all that has changed, and so much that hasn't. Life in Code is an essential audiobook toward our understanding of the last 20 years - and the next 20.

Members Reviews:

If you've worked for a west coast tech firm and want some fun historical perspective -- read this!

Creative storytelling of her personal experiences in the very exciting silicon valley technology industry during fascinating times. Ellen is insightful, intelligent, introspective, funny, witty and really knows how to spin an interesting story. Loved this!

A thought provoking indictment of the new technocratic order

Silicon Valley brands itself as progressive, but really, itâs a less honest Wall Street: a small geographic location dedicated to generating mass amounts of wealth for a small, select group of primarily white men. This book intelligently dissects all the hypocritical intricacies of this world and offers a glimmer of hope in the messiness of humanity, civil society, even the corporeal.

Five Stars

Excellent insight by a true philosopher of computing.

Wonderful philosophical memoir on the Life in Code

Love the style of the writing and philosophical bent. Many points had me nodding and feeling like she's telling my story in large part (I, too, have a life in code, and Ellen is my spiritual mentor). I'm not finished with the book I may do a follow-up. But I wish I could give it 5 stars. I have to give it 4 because, well, its a view of programming that's from a bygone age where the ideal programmer resembles the electrical engineer. Even the term "Software Engineer" (as opposed to "Computer Scientist") is not really about engineering. Programming is more a liberal art, where survivorship of ideas expressed in code depends largely on a design ethos that puts amenability to change as paramount, not any "single best way" to solve a problem: programming being the first human-computer interaction. I was also saddened to see this myth of meritocracy perpetuated again. There are no meritocracies, only "mirrortocracies", programming being one of the best examples.