Books like My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
12 books with a reading profile close to My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Part memoir and part scientific inquiry, this book begins with a twelve-year-old James Doty entering a magic shop in Lancaster, California.
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Reasons to Stay Alive
by Matt Haig
Also inward-looking · memoir, inspirational
At twenty-four, Matt Haig experienced a physical and mental breakdown in Ibiza that led to years of severe depression and panic disorder.
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Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Jackie Hill Perry details her personal history of same-sex attraction and her subsequent conversion to Christianity.
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The Beauty in Breaking
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Michele Harper, an emergency room physician, details her life through a series of clinical encounters and personal upheavals.
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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
by Edith Eger
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz, where she survived the manual labor camps and a death march by clinging to her internal mental landscape.
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Tramp for the Lord
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Following her release from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom spent twenty years traveling as a global itinerant speaker.
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All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
by Beth Moore
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In this memoir, Beth Moore recounts her upbringing in Arkansas and Texas, revealing the private instability that existed behind her public image as a Bible teacher.
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Also inward-looking · memoir, inspirational
Michael J.
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Look Me in the Eye
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, psychology
John Elder Robison details his life growing up with undiagnosed Asperger’s syndrome in a volatile household.
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From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Jesse Thistle was born to a Métis and Cree father and a Scottish-Canadian mother, and was abandoned with his brothers by his parents as a small child.
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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Michael J.
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Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In January 1988, twelve-year-old Martin Pistorius fell ill with an undiagnosed brain infection that left him in a vegetative state.
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