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Maxie

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Universe Quest: Rick Riordanverse
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A Parade of Horribles
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The Night Circus
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This Girl's a Killer
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  • Across the Green Grass Fields
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    Aug 13, 2026
    Across the Green Grass Fields
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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  • Come Tumbling Down
    Maxie
    Aug 12, 2026
    Come Tumbling Down
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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  • Juice Like Wounds
    Maxie
    Aug 12, 2026
    Juice Like Wounds
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    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5
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  • In an Absent Dream
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    Aug 12, 2026
    In an Absent Dream
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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  • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
    Maxie
    Aug 12, 2026
    Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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    As a memoir, it is well written and structured.

    If you're coming for Facebook drama and tea you will find it. Every single person is the worst and then they do something that you can't even believe is even more terrible than the thing they did the chapter before.

    I have to knock off points on the rating though because of the author. Sarah Wynn-Williams has to be an unreliable narrator. I do believe her when she details her experiences with both events and people. However, her internal logic is either the work of the most Pollyanna person alive or it has been editorialized by either herself (maybe even accidentally as a way to make herself feel better) or her editor to cast her in a more sympathetic light. It's very clear that Facebook was a cult for her. The problem is that she never seems to grow mentally beyond the early 20 something woman who has never worked in corporate and literally creates her own job because she believes in the Facebook /tech sector hype of the early 2000s so much and is actually a like an important manager member, but she's not part of the in group and so therefore actually doesn't have power. She was there for like 7 years and wants us to believe that she always thought everyone was doing the best that they could. She takes only the most superficial responsibility for her own actions (she's always the only reasonable one in the room who's questioning everyone's unethical practices and then sometimes she's not even vocalizing that) as the person who was in charge of policy that spurred Mark and co to realize how much power they had on the global stage.

    I think this memoir could have used another 10 years of reflection and therapy for Wynn-Williams before being written because there's almost no introspection.

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