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 […]