Summer reading

I had a dream last night that I wrote an entry about the last couple of books I've read. Like a, "What these books say about me and said to me," kind of post. I'm not sure if I'm so into that now that I'm awake and the day is almost over, but here I am. Thank God they aren't ALL fantasy.

I started Steve Jobs around Christmas last year--read half pretty quickly-- and then set it aside. I picked it back up a couple weeks ago. I loved that Jobs was trying to find a way to save newspapers and revamp the textbook industry in his last year. I can only hope another genius will fulfill that mission. Anyway, after reading, this quote kept popping back to mind. Maybe it's because I'm youngish and at first I didn't see this as a revelation, but rather as pretty obvious. But the more time I give it, the more I think it is a revelation, and in a larger sense than I have maybe before considered:

“I had a real revelation. We were all in robes, and they made some Turkish coffee for us. The professor explained how the coffee was made very different from anywhere else, and I realized, “So fucking what?” Which kids in Turkey give a shit about Turkish coffee? All day I had looked at young people in Istanbul. They were all drinking what every other kid in the world drinks, and they were wearing clothes that look like they were bought at the Gap, and they are all using cell phones. They were like kids everywhere else. It hit me that, for young people, this whole world is the same now. When we are making products, there is no such thing as a Turkish phone, or a music player that young people in Turkey would want that’s different from one young people elsewhere would want. We are just one world now.”

Before that, I read Bad Girls Go Everywhere. Here's another book about a powerhouse boss, but completely different in content and nature. I don't agree with all of HGB's views about using one's femininity to get ahead in the work place, but I do agree with what I think was her point--and she was making it ahead of her time-- that women should know it's possible, and laudable, to climb to the top in a man's world. And that there's no need to apologize for breaking ground.

Prior to BGGE, I read a couple of Fantasy books, including the latest in my beloved Sookie Stackhouse series, but I said in my "blogger" bio that I wanted to read more nonfiction, so I'll focus on that.

I've got Tina Fey's Bossypants ordered on my kindle, and I'm hoping it's as good as Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And other Concerns) but I've heard from friends my order is up for a cheesy basket of disappointment.

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