Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind, 1995. First book in the series which is the basis for the TV show The Legend of the Seeker. As with many media franchises, I found out this book is way more intense and dark than the TV show. I read the last two-thirds of it in an eight-hour sitting one Saturday.
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It, Joshua Cooper Ramo, 2009. While mostly about matters geopolitical, this book is written to get you thinking about your own personal "deep security": meeting adversity by being adaptable, multifaceted, and sociable.
Dawn, Octavia Butler, 1987. First book in the Xenogenesis/Lilith's Brood series. I've wanted to read this series for a while, after reading some of Butler's Parable series. One thing disturbed me, though, about the cover art on the first edition copy I borrowed from the library. It shows a recognizable scene from the book, in which the protagonist, Lilith, a black woman, opens a stasis container and releases another woman. However, the illustration depicts Lilith as a very pale white woman. Wow. I mean, even in 1987, did Warner Books think they could sell more copies if they put a white woman on the cover instead of a black woman? Did they think it was worth creating a major disjoint between the cover and the story? Bizarre and ugly.
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