Recommended Reads, 41st in a Quarterly Series

 

Stuff I'd recommend from the past three months:

Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence (Selvaratnam).  A harrowing and incisive memoir.

Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor (Gelb/Caldicott).  Some people are naturally more innovative than others, but it isn't true that you can't learn how to be innovative or institute a process that leads to more innovation.

The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Kenneally).  So interesting to explore how we learned to speak and whether and how we are different from animals.

Girl on a Train (Hawkins).  I don't usually do fiction but I want to, and this was worth the read.

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Miles).  An amazing, inter-generational account.

13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do: Raising Self-Assured Children and Training Their Brains for a Life of Happiness, Meaning, and Success (Morin).  Oops, I do a lot of these things.  Time to do better.