Tall Reader loaned me the book Becoming, by Michelle Obama. It proved to be a wonderful, quiet read. (A review on Goodreads describes it as "mesmerizing", that fits, too). She writes of her upbringing, and the values she learned from her parents, of her schooling, and meeting a man with a 'strange name'. She describes being a working mother, and living and raising her daughters in the White House, a life always under scrutiny. The good times are here, as are the bad times. (Embrace that, learn from them, they are all a part of you). It was fascinating reading about someone so different from myself, I gained new perspectives on things. This is an amazing woman!

An excellent recommendation came from Kiwi: To Engineer is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski. A nice blend of things I did not understand (a bit technical for this non-engineer type person), and things I did! I especially like the chapter on fiction books about engineering. More pictures would have been nice. If you have seen and enjoyed a show called 'Engineering Catastrophes' (that's what got us talking about this book in the first place) you should like this book.

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