Booking Through Thankful Thursday

What books and authors are you particularly thankful for this year?

Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate by Roger Fisher

I'm thankful for finding this book and being able to look at and feel emotions during negotiations instead of ignoring the distraction when emotional unrational debates happen. It has helped me become a better Employee Relations Manager.

Still Alice by Lisa Genova, debut book

I'm thankful for this book because my father has Alzeheimer's and it helped me to understand how he feels at times especially from being in a high profile job and being a family man. A sad but brilliant book. I highly recommend. This one will always stay with me.

Summary

Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind...