July 16, 2017, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Gary A. Haugen and Gregg Hunter

Near the Mesoamerican Cloud Forest, at Flower Piano, an event where pianos are scattered around the botanical gardens in Golden Gate Park and you can read while being accompanied by music

She is reading Terrify No More:Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom, by Gary A. Haugen, with Gregg Hunter.

We didn't talk to her for long because I was with my siblings, but I did ask her about her favorite book or author. She said there were so many, but that East of Eden, by John Steinbeck was one of them.

July 11, 2017, Tuesday afternoon -- Reading Annie Barrows

In the Mission District on a sunny afternoon

He is reading Nothing, a young adult novel by Annie Barrows. He found it in the free bin at Adobe Books, along with The Gospel According to Peanuts, (as in the cartoon by Charles Schulz) by Robert Short. Something he read good recently was The Waters of Eternal Youth, about an Italian police officer, by Donna Leon.

June 24, 2017, Saturday afternoon -- Reading Adam Grant

In the Mission District

She is reading Give and Take, by Adam Grant. She met another author who had co-written a book with him and learned about this book that way. It's about being a giver, and how you might think that givers have less, but they have more.

From a young age she has loved stories by Paullina Simons. She also liked I For Isobel, by Amy Witting, an Australian author. In general, she likes books that tell stories and also make a point of how to be better in life.

Another author she likes is Sydney Sheldon.

In High School she loved Shakespeare.

She's writing a book proposal right now about how to be an entrepreneur. Apparently women own about the same number of businesses as men, but make far less money as men who own businesses. One of the reasons why is that more women than men don't have the money to hire a consultant. The book she wants to write will give advice that a consultant would be able to give, leveling out the playing field.

She has her own business. They make accessories out of recycled fish leather, leftover from the food industry.

June 9, 2017, Friday morning -- Reading a psychology textbook coordonné by John S. Barnhill

At the beautiful Geneva Botanical Gardens, not far from the United Nations (if I'm ever in Geneva in the winter, that's where I'll be - chilling in the glassed-in tropical forests)

She is reading DSM-5 Cas cliniques, a psychology textbook coordonné by John S. Barnhill. She graduates at the end of June! She doesn't have much time to read for pleasure, but she does like reading Danielle Steel, in either French or in English.