Title: My Stroke of Insight
Author: Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D
Breakdown of reading:
First section: Pg 1 - 48 (Ending on Chapter 5)
Second: Pgs 48 - 96 (Ending on Chapter 11)
Third: Pgs 96 - 144 (Ending on Chapter 16)
Fourth: Pgs 144 - 187 (End of book)
A few days ago on Monday, I was looking around Barnes and Noble browsing through non-fiction books just to get a feel of what type of non-fiction book I was most drawn to. At first I had picked up a book about the unwritten fact that beauty is sometimes the key to success, such as getting a job, etc. Then I picked up a book at random on a table that had bestselling non-fiction books. I read the back summary and I came to find it was a book about a brain scientist (neurologist) from Harvard who had a very successful life through medical school and also when she went on through her discoveries and successes as a researcher of brain tissue and different brain dysfunctions. Then one morning she wakes up and is in the middle of a stroke, one that causes her brain to collapse within four hours. She finds that she can not walk, talk, or remember any of her life. Yet after eight years she makes a full recovery and writes this book called My Stroke of Insight where she tells all about how during those years of no speech she finds her inner peace and finds a new meaning about life. I chose this book because it seems as if it would be a life changing read, and I have never read any book about brain science so I would like to see if this is something I become more interested in.
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