Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google

by Bonnie Brown

Giigle is a warm-hearted, laugh-out-loud memoir about starting over. Touching and funny, it offers an insiders look at Google culture, thoughts about the benefits of massage on health and spirituality, zany globetrotting, high-flying antics, and encouragement for anyone who needs to begin anew.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Sharon Orlopp · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected and wanted so much more from this book. Bonnie Brown was hired by Google at the end of 1999 when the company had 39 employees.

Brown provided massages to Google employees and also traveled globally to key Google events to provide massages. The book describes Google's holiday parties and Google trips. Brown describes her shopping adventures within various countries.

I was hopeful that there would be more information about Google---the culture, the employees, the ups and downs of startups, etc.

[Dr. Tathagat Varma · Rating 2 out of 5]

An interesting account by Google's first massage therapist and how she made her millions. While the book is quite an honest account of Bonnie's life during the time she got started at Google and afterwards, a lot of book is devoted to stuff that seems to have nothing much to do with Google par se. Also, the writing style is very recursive -- she goes into one story and then jumps into another one, and so on. It is very easy to lose interest quickly in many of those stories.

Overall, read it if you like to read diverse stuff (life me!) but you don't miss much by skipping the book.