Dancing Backwards

Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
Author: Jennifer Cook O'Toole

"Mad and scared look a lot a like. So do shy and stuck-up, overwhelmed and impatient."

"Collecting cheerfulness...actively take 5-10 seconds to let the good be seen & noted."

"We don't actually have different brains. We have differently wired equally-human brains. Human functions - like feeling - aren't missing, for crying out loud. They're just different in brains that are neurologically different, regardless of which way the comparison is made."

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This book gave me A LOT to think about and bolstered my desire to understand how human minds work. I would be interested in reading the stories of others on the spectrum, since this book is detailing only the very individual experiences of the author. It doesn't flow like an informational book, instead it tended towards a stream of consciousness style. Not perfect but definitely something worth investigating.

Bullet in the Brain Pan

Title: The Girl Who Played with Fire
Author: Steig Larsson
Narrator: Simon Vance

I do think that the original title of the first book "Men who hate Women" is actually more descriptive of the series.

The book started off slow for me and I kind of only half paid attention - I don't really care all that much about everyone's sex lives and such but once the action started it just kept building.