Memoir Monday...

Molly's Game past times Molly Bloom... From the dorsum cover: When Molly Bloom was a piddling daughter growing upwards inwards a modest Colorado town, she watched her brothers win medals, ace tests, as well as have high praise from everyone they met. Molly wanted naught to a greater extent than than to relish inwards that glow a piddling herself, thence she pushed herself too—as a student, every bit an athlete. She was successful merely felt similar she was e'er coming from behind. She wanted to interruption free, to honour a life without rules as well as limits, a life where she didn't direct keep to mensurate upwards to anyone or anything—where she could acquire whatever she wanted.

Molly wanted more, as well as she got to a greater extent than than she could direct keep ever bargained for.

In Molly's Game, Molly Bloom takes the reader through her adventures running an exclusive high-stakes soul poker game. Her clients ranged from iconic stars similar Leonardo DiCaprio as well as Ben Affleck to politicians as well as fiscal titans thence powerful they moved markets as well as changed the course of written report of history. With rich detail, Molly describes a basis that until straightaway has been shrouded inwards glamour, privilege, as well as secrecy, i where she fearlessly took on the Russian as well as Italian mobs—until she met the i adversary she could non outsmart, fifty-fifty though she had judge on her side: the the U.S. government.

Molly's Game is an incredible coming-of-age even out nearly a immature daughter who rejected convention inwards pursuit of her version of the American dream. It's the even out of how she gained—and as well as thence lost—her house at the table, as well as of everything she learned nearly poker, love, as well as life inwards the process.

I'm non actually certain where I saw this originally. The comprehend struck me as well as I had to read what it was about. I idea it was some slice of literary fiction amongst a key graphic symbol that had some truthful cat as well as mouse game going on. But wow, it looks similar this definitely is non what I was expecting! Molly Bloom was an olympic shape skier, who got involved amongst high stakes poker that atomic number 82 her to live on arrested past times 17 automatic rifle wielding FBI agents inwards the middle of the night. I'm thinking Orange Is The New Black meets poker. I read an excerpt as well as actually liked the writing! It's straightaway a major displace picture... read the mass earlier the movie! On my TBR listing NOW!