Between the movie and the New York Times Bestseller list, Hidden Figures (2016) by Margot Lee Shetterly had generated a fair bit of buzz. I knew I wanted to read it. It was just a matter of getting it from the library when everyone else wanted it too. I knew going in that this book focused on the contribution that black women made in the space race. This knowledge came solely from the film preview, but I was interested in reading the source material. I still haven’t […]
Leadership as taught by Navy Seals
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win (2015) by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is a self-help type book about leadership. Each chapter begins with a short recollection of the Navy Seal leaders’ time in Ramadi, Iraq that illustrates a specific concept of leadership. Then they outline this principle more explicitly before applying it to the business world. Willink and Babin have apparently become consultants for business managers and presidents, and they take examples from these consultants to further illustrate their principles. First, the […]
The life of a lady scientist
Unsurprisingly, I found Lab Girl by Hope Jahren through NPR’s List of Best Books of 2016. This is a non-fiction memoir about Jahren’s life in research and science, beginning as a lab tech at a hospital to finally being in charge of her own lab at a University. I enjoyed this book very much, much more than I was expecting. There are many different aspects to this book, each of them fascinating in their own right. First, Jahren is a successful woman scientist, a minority in her field. […]
Book 3 of The Hidden Legacy Series
As soon as I finished White Hot, Ilona Andrews’ second book in their Hidden Legacy Series, I immediately bought the third book, Wildfire (2017), and started to read it. At this point I was hooked and wasn’t about to rest until there was nothing else for me to read. To be honest, I read the second and third book so close together that I have a hard time telling them apart. I remember a lot of what happened in both books, just not what happened in each book. Anyway, the […]
Book 2 of The Hidden Legacy Series
It wasn’t long after I’d finished reading Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews that I decided I needed to read the next book in their Hidden Legacies series. White Hot (2017) is book two out of three, and I was looking forward to some more adventures with Nevada Baylor and Connor “Mad” Rogan. The Hidden Legacy Books take place in a world where magic is both common and important. Those who are the most powerful are called Primes, and their families rule the city and the social scene. Nevada […]
A novel of the Borderlands
I love those classic novels that stick with you for years, that may even change your perspective on life–especially if you read them when you’re younger. I saw that Finder (1994) by Emma Bull was recommended as unforgettable, and I thought it might just be one of those books. Finder is a novel of the Borderlands. Bull has set up her story where there is the world we know as well as an Elvish land full of magic and fairies. Inbetween these two places is the Borderland, a […]
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