Books & Movies
Shut up, I’m talking : and other diplomacy lessons I learned in the
Israeli government / Gregory Levey.
2018
Molly’s Game
It’s kind of a funny story (book and movie)- Ned Vizzini
The hate you give – Angie Thomas
The Class – Erich Segal
The Beginning of Everything Robyn Schneider
White Tiger –
Donna Summers (Broadway)
12th Night Shakespeare in the Park *****
Tanglewood
Tina little things
Laura and Emma – (Kate Greathead)
Greenich Village Doc (video)
All Quiet on the Western Front
My Oxford Year Julia Whelan
Schoolgirls Peggy Orenstein
The Overacievers Alexander Robbins
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Hamilton – bway 5/25/18
Autobiography of a Freedom Rider – Thomas Armstrong and N. Bell
Night – Elie Wiesel
Harry Belifonte – My Song
The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom – Amy Chua
Bad Teacher – Kumashiro
Brainwashed, Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience – Satel and Scott Lilieanfeld
Mean Girls – Bway April
Admission – Lincoln Center – Bway May 2018
2017
Textile – Orly Castel Bloom
A Borrowed Identity – Film
Startup – Doree Shafrir
Sisters In Law
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My Antonia – Willa Cather
Ruth Bader Ginsberg _In My Own Words – How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became It’s Most Influential Justice
Indignation – Philip Roth
kinky Boots – movie
moonstruck – movie
It gets worse – book
Hidden Figures – Jewish character – immigrant
Wangs vs the World – so many Jewish references – was it necessary?
Today will be different – Maria Semple
Where are you Bernadette – Maria Semple
The Undoing Project – Michael Lewis – Israel researchers
Rise and Fall of American Growth: US standard of living since the Civil War – Robert Gordon
2016
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates – Brian Kilmeade
Hannah Senesh
Neil Simon Plays
Why be Jewish – Bronfman
How to write a novel
Hoot
Feb 2016
Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads
pg. 189 – I believe that no parent or student is more important than anyone else….. I also know that parents who are perceived here as having influence in my office are Jewish parents or parents who volunteer. As an African American woman who is an administrator at a primarily wealthy white school, it can be really hard, but I just have to do my best work and be fair. Suzanne, head of school.
Electoral Dysfuntion
Seymour
January 2016
Look Me In The Eye my life with Aspergers John Elder Robison
The Road to Character – David Brooks.
December 2015
Is Everyone Hanging out without me? (An other concerns) – Mindy Kaling
Tammy – Movie
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Adventures of a Curious Character) – Richard Feynman
Wolf of Wall Street
Funny People
Catch up
The Teacher Wars
The Good School
Royal Entertainment
Shopaholic to the stars
Feb.
What Nora Knew
Jan
The Sports Gene
Faster, Higher, Stronger
Powerball
July 2014
The Undomestic Goddess (Sophie Kinsella)
Davita’s Harp (Potok)
Finerman Rules
Friend’s Books
School for Good and Evil Trilogy – Soman Chainani
Nine plants of Desire, Scent of Darkness – Margot Berwin
Truth in Advertising – John Kenney
Give a mom a Martini – Fellow Valley Cottager -Julie Klappas
Rachel Harkham –
Laura Marx Fitzgerald-
Lisa Young –
Stanley Dyrector –
Maurice Zalta
2019
Life of David Hockney Catherine cusset
Mendez vs. Aki Strum
Sylvia and Aki Conkling
Tribe of mentors Ferriss
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Art by Andrea D’Aquino
Educated Tara Westover
The Art of Eating MFK Fisher.
Infinite Powers Steven Strogatz
beautiful day in the Neighborhood (and esquire article)
