This past weekend I started two books that I've been itching to read for a long now - not surprisingly, both are nonfiction. The first book is about Introverts, called Quiet, and is written by Susan Cain. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of books about Introverts, and I've read most of them because I'm very introverted. So it will be interesting to see how this is different from the rest. She wrote a fantastic op-ed piece in the NYT that is worth reading, whether you're introverted or extroverted.
The second book is called Poor Economics, written by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. It won the FT's award for best business book for 2011. It's about fighting poverty: what works, and what doesn't. There is, for me, a moral imperative to do what I can for the less fortunate - regardless of whether or not they are far across the world or in your own city.
