The Celebrants--#56 finished

This is about 5 people that got together after graduating from Cal Berkeley but also were together because a 6th person Alex had died--possibly suicide--right before graduation.  All 6 were transfers into Berkeley as sophomores so were sort of assigned together and were friends from then on.  At that get together they form a sort of compact to have a funeral for each when needed--before they die--so the person will know their friends love and support them in a time of need.  Their lives go from there and a bunch of years later get the call and then another and another.  Interesting story, had a couple twists too.  Good characters and wanted to see how things turn out.

There are 21 WL for this book on PBS so will get it mailed off at some point.

David and Goliath--#55 finished

The rest of the title:  Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell.  I really enjoyed this book, he took a different perspective to underdogs and misfits and showed how their limitations actually became their positives.  People with dyslexia found ways around this and became super successful.  People in London being bombed, people that grew up without love, etc these people became successful in their fields.  Now he has obviously picked successful people to show it could happen.  He doesn't really touch on the fact that so many with these issues struggle probably their whole lives, that to me was a kind of shortcoming to this book.  But was good at keeping in mind what could be setbacks can be turned around.  Really good and interesting book.

There are no copies on PBS but at this point keeping and encouraging others to read.