Memoir: Good Talk — Mira Jacob
Non-Fiction: White Fragility — Robin Diangelo
Science: The Gene: An Intimate History — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Movie: Amazing Grace — Alan Elliott and Sidney Pollack
Movie: Book Smart— Olivia Wilde
Not-So-Ancient Inspiration:
“It doesn’t matter how far ahead you see if you don’t understand what you are looking at.” — Garry Kasparov
Delight: A Taste of Paris: A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food — David Downie
Non-Fiction: Women and Power: A Manifesto –– Mary Beard
Non-Fiction: So You Want to Talk About Race — Ijeoma Oluo
Strategy: How life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom— Garry Kasparov
TV: False Flag — Amit Cohen, Maria Feldman
Song: O Menina Dança –Novos Baianos
Not so ancient inspiration: A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou
Valerie Block 