So what are you waiting for? Pick up book and start working that brain! Here are few of my favorites. I'll be adding to the list as the summer progresses as I have a ton of new reads waiting to be devoured. Please post your favorites too. Let's start a thought revolution!
Sticking with the brain theme, I love this new book by John Medina. He offers 12 "rules" of the brain from the latest research that will help in every day life - like why you remember some people's presentations and not others, how stress really affects us, and the truth about multi-tasking. He makes some bold suggestions about how to overhaul our school system too.A related book is The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine. If you've ever wondered why women (and teen girls) behave the way they do, you'll find the answers here!
Think you know what makes you happy? Think again! The author challenges every long-held conviction about what we think will make us feel fulfilled. This is not a how-to book about how to find happiness, he leaves that up to you, but this book may make you steer your search in a different direction.
If you've heard me speak about making a positive first impression, you've heard me quote this book. Gladwell offers compelling examples from business, fire fighting, police work, health care, and even personal relationships about the way we make snap judgments. He also wrote The Tipping Point, another thought-provoking book about marketing.
Although this book has been out for ten years, it's still every bit as relevant today. (In fact, Gladwell quotes it often in Blink.) If you've ever doubted your gut instincts, this book will prove how to trust those little red flags.
I love memoirs and I picked this one up quite by accident. I'm so glad I did. Haven Kimmel's writing is hysterical and touching. Here's what Publisher's Weekly said: It's a cliche‚ to say that a good memoir reads like a well-crafted work of fiction, but Kimmel's smooth, impeccably humorous prose evokes her childhood as vividly as any novel. Born in 1965, she grew up in Mooreland, Ind., a place that by some "mysterious and powerful mathematical principle" perpetually retains a population of 300, a place where there's no point learning the street names because it's just as easy to say, "We live at the four-way stop sign." Hers is less a formal autobiography than a collection of vignettes comprising the things a small child would remember: sick birds, a new bike, reading comics at the drugstore, the mean old lady down the street.On my can't- wait-to-read-list is the new release from David Sedaris, "When in Engulfed in Flames." I've read every one of his books - so, so, funny. If you have yet to encounter his work, , you're in for a ride!
