Catch and Kill

I already knew a fair bit about Weinstein's story before reading this, but the thing that is emphasized here over and over again is just how many people were willing to actively defend and support the behaviour of this terrible human being (and others like him). Some of these people felt they had no other choice due to the power dynamics at play (including many of the victims), but there were also many others also in positions of power who acted purely to maintain the status quo. Very disheartening.

The author is the main character of the story here, it's told from his perspective and shows the journalistic process behind exposing a story like this, which is very fascinating to me. It isn't as simple as just printing what people tell you. I need to find more books about this type of work, but it reminds me of movies like Spotlight or All The President's Men.

I listened to this via audiobook from the library's Libby app through a neat program that I didn't know existed called “Skip The Line”. This is a popular book with a long waitlist, but it has at least one copy that when available is presented to people in the hold queue to take out immediately as long as they act quickly, and the loan is for a shorter period with no option to renew.

The audiobook itself was narrated by the author himself and for the most part well done and engaging... however he does voices/accents any time someone else is speaking and it is incredibly weird and cringey, I don't understand why he felt the need to do that.