Anyway, I also was surprised that I had not heard about this book earlier; I just found it on the shelf of the Library, read it's inside cover description and thought, "I have to read this book! So relevant to what I lived and do each day."
Mae Holland is hired to work at the Circle, the world's most powerful Internet company (think Google!). This is the opportunity of a lifetime. The description of the office reminded me of the Google offices in San Francisco where my nephew worked for a while. At the Circle, users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing are linked up with a universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.
Mae is enthralled with the office, dorm rooms for those who work late, the parties that last through the night, the famous musicians playing on the lawn. There are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
Some of the book seemed predictable, but I never tired of reading it. And the end was a bit of a surprise for me.
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