re: What are you reading?

Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter

Probably a long read. -the Cynics

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey, her first Inspector Peter Grant novel.

The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski. Pretty decent, worth having even though I am no longer enthralled by baseball as I once was. He's a bit of a whiny.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Kissinger's newest book, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy

First, at 99 years old, it's hard to believe how in depth and well written the case studies are throughout, often drawing from his own interactions with the chosen leaders. Really great historical piece that brings to light a variety of severe domestic and foreign policy challenges that were navigated about as well as could be imagined given the context of each. Amazing stuff.

I'm about halfway through the Lee Kuan Yew section, very glad I picked it up.

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In Leadership, Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft, which he believes they embodied. After the Second World War, Konrad Adenauer brought defeated and morally bankrupt Germany back into the community of nations by what Kissinger calls “the strategy of humility.” Charles de Gaulle set France beside the victorious Allies and renewed its historic grandeur by “the strategy of will.” During the Cold War, Richard Nixon gave geostrategic advantage to the United States by “the strategy of equilibrium.” After twenty-five years of conflict, Anwar Sadat brought a vision of peace to the Middle East by a “strategy of transcendence.” Against the odds, Lee Kuan Yew created a powerhouse city-state, Singapore, by “the strategy of excellence.” And, though Britain was known as “the sick man of Europe” when Margaret Thatcher came to power, she renewed her country’s morale and international position by “the strategy of conviction.”

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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How is this one? I know it is actually an assigned reading for some high school English courses. I've never read it, but as someone with cancer myself, I'm tempted to try it out.