Sheryl Sandberg and The Great Gender Debate

Lean In : Women, Work, and The Will To Lead
Release date: March 11, 2013
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN-10: 0385349947

With the release of her new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, is creating quite a stir and once again the media is buzzing with the great debate of women in the workplace.  As I was viewing her interview on 60 Minutes, (this interview can also be found here on Salon), something about her choice of language immediately caught my attention and left me

What Are You Reading?

My morning ritual is quite simplistic: two cups of coffee while web browsing and sharing my finds with Oliver, my three-year old Cocker Spaniel who seems convinced he's human.  I've learned to savor these moments of solitude and serenity before my youngest son awakens with his own preconceived notion of how our day should proceed (a home-schooled teenager with Autism...need I say more?)  This morning as I was visiting NPR Books, I was quickly captivated by the following new release in Historical Fiction (and yes, with just one click it is now available on my Kindle waiting to be read...instant self-gratification at its best ).

Mary Coin By Marisa Silver
Release date: March 7, 2013
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
ISBN-10: 0399160701

About The Book:  

In her first novel since The God of War, the critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention—a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their chance encounter.

In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in Central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America’s farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression.