Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.

Beautiful Trauma by Rebecca Fogg

Why I have it: Not sure.

Summary: Late one night, while Rebecca Fogg was alone in her apartment, her hand was partially amputated in an explosion. Quick thinking saved her life, but the journey to recovery would be slow. As the doctors rebuilt her hand, Rebecca began rebuilding her sense of self by studying the physical and psychological process of recovery.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Sociopath by Patric Gagne

Why I have it: It’s been popping up everywhere.

Summary: Ever since she was a child, Patric knew she was different. Although she felt intense love for her family, these connections were never enough to make her be ‘good’. As she grew older, her behaviour escalated from petty theft through to breaking and entering, stalking, and worse. As an adult, Patric realized that she was a sociopath. Although she instantly connected with the official descriptions of sociopathy, she also knew they didn’t tell the full story: this is it.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Human Kind by Rutger Bregman

Why I have it: Mentioned in a text I was reading for work.

Summary: It’s a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. And its roots sink deep into Western thought – the tacit assumption is that humans are bad. Bregman makes the case for a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good.

I’m thinking: No.

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