Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man – Norah Vincent
One gender does tend to assume, for better or worse, what life as the other gender is life. Norah Vincent had a stab at it.
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Journalism
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster – Jon Krakauer
I don’t think I cared much for mountaineering before reading this.
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon – Kim Zetter
This book is truly excellent journalism. Just try to go into it without spoilers.
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography – Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
I don’t think this book had the desired effect.
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Dispatches from the Edge – Anderson Cooper
Dispatches from the Edge is touching and horrifying, and reminds us how us how the fragility of live continues to effect us.
Failures in Polymathy 