We Need to Talk
A Memoir about Wealth

I found this memoir an interesting foray into the lives of the wealthy. I appreciate Jennifer Risher’s willingness to write in-depth about being rich and the complicated emotions that that experience can elicit. In addition to delving into a topic that is still not talked about too openly, the memoi......more

I'm not giving this book 5 stars because I'm friends with Jennifer and David, who I met through their amazing work at WorldReader.org. Though if I do have a criticism of the book, it's that it doesn't talk enough about everything that organization has done and is doing, helping kids all over the wor......more

I'm giving this book five stars not because Jennifer's my wife (which she is), not because she's amazing (which she is), and not because I watched her invest 14 years of her life and suffer through countlesss rejections and revisions (she did, to both.) I'm giving the book five stars because it's fun......more

I wanted to like this book - the premise was interesting enough to download it (Edelweiss+). The memoir is basically the author's journey into the world of affluence and her coming to terms with it over the course of many decades. She seems like a nice person who really wants to help people, but bei......more

I’m very interested in the emotions, taboos, and practices surrounding money, so I read this book, and found it compelling, yet disagreeable. The author (who, along with her husband, became tech millionaires) spends a good deal of time explaining how initially conflicted, but ultimately comfortable......more