Looking for some non-fiction this summer...
Bossypants, by Tina Fey
This hilarious memoir delightfully
covers Tina Fey, from her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty
on
Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of
physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her
one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon. Tina Fey reveals all,
and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you
bossy.
Unorthodox:
The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,
by Deborah Feldman
Unorthodox is a captivating story, tracing the author's upbringing in
the Hasidic community of Satmar in Brooklyn's
Williamsburg.
Feldman describes the strict rules that governed every aspect of her
life, denial of a traditional education and arranged marriage at 17 to a
stranger before the birth of her son led to her plan to escape her cloistered
world.
I Feel Bad About My Neck,
Nora Ephron
This collection of witty essays by Nora Ephron offers a
hilarious look at the ups and downs of being a woman of a certain age,
discussing the tribulations of maintenance and trying to stop the clock,
menopause, empty nests, her experiences of being a White House intern during
the JFK years and more.
The Power
of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg
A young woman walks into a
laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of
her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The
patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers
at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are
desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on
track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them
detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising,
Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year. Duhigg shares this and many
other stories showing how those achieved success by focusing on the patterns
that shape their lives. They succeeded by transforming habits. At its core,
The
Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising
regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more
productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and
achieving success is understanding how habits work. Habits aren't destiny. As
Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our
businesses, our communities, and our lives.
