Spiraling

I think that perhaps if you've never worked at a firm like HHM (which I did, as a senior associate, for several years), it might be difficult to believe how incompetent lawyers can be as managers! We're not business trained, and lawyer training generally makes you WORSE at dealing with people, not better. I have seen baby rainmakers like Kim get abused and run out more than once. (As an aside, that's why it is sometimes very difficult for me to watch this show and it is always difficult for me to watch Kim. Because I used to be her. The depiction of HHM as a workplace is nauseatingly spot-on.)

Hallie Lowenthal! Squee!

I am extremely late to the party (DVDs just came out in France), but during that last scene Madison was like, "Hey, it's just us now, baby!" Dislike.

Motherless Daughters, by Hope Edelman. It's non-fiction and is about exactly what it sounds like. It was a bad idea to take it into a restaurant with me for a solo lunch today--it's too sad.

I love these books. Read them to my sons and it was such a bonding experience. Now one of them is obsessed with Greek mythology, so that worked out pretty well. I'm even hoping to take him to Greece soon.