Summer Reading 2017 by Bill Gates
I had a chance to catch up on a lot of reading recently, and there are a number of great books.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.
I've been watching Trevor, and I was reading such heavy books; I thought, Hey, I'll just read this.
It's Trevor growing up in South Africa, where the categories are so arbitrary, and he hasn't fit any category.
But the whole idea of this South Africa, what that was like, his insightfulness comes through very well.
Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance.
It's an amazing story of a kid who grows up in Kentucky and Ohio in a hillbilly family and manages to become a lawyer graduating from Yale Law School.
The chaotic nature of being in a family where resources are short, people aren't happy, people turn to drugs, alcohol, you can't count on your parents to be around— I really felt I got a glimpse of something honest.
The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal.
