Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

I can't get enough of the Theranos story. I gleefully devoured this trainwreck, only wishing that it was longer and included more about Elizabeth, more about Sunny, more about the pending lawsuits (maybe I wish it had been published after all that had been concluded, but I get why it was now instead). I am obsessed. In fact, as I was reading this, I listened to NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour episode about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, and learned that there is also a documentary and a podcast (neither of which is related to Carreyrou or this book as far as I know), not to mention the Jennifer Lawrence movie about Holmes and the Hulu series in the works. You can bet I will watch/listen/slurp up every single one of those eventually because I must have it alllll give it to me nowwwwww. (On a secondary note, my real question is, why was Yael Grobglas not tapped to play Elizabeth in something? Every time I see the Theranos founder's photo, I see Jane the Virgin's Petra.)

One of my biggest bookish pet peeves is journalists inserting themselves into their stories. Most of the time, it's not necessary and makes me mad, so I was just a liiiiiittle bit torn here – because getting the details of how the story broke and dealing with Theranos' lawyers' harassment is compelling stuff, and I couldn't figure out how Carreyrou could have told that portion of the story without including his own actions. A small dilemma, but how quickly I throw my journalistic principles out the window when it's as juicy as this was!