Best Books Of 2018 -- NY Times -- December 19, 2018

Still time for last-minute gifts? Got books?

Link here. The book(s) that caught my interest. Only one, sorry to say:

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality, Merve Emre (Doubleday). On the face of it, this is supposed to be a history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; it turns out to be something much stranger — an inventive and beguiling biography of the idiosyncratic mother-daughter pair who developed the indicator using their own, decidedly unscientific, interpretations of human behavior. If there’s a theme in this book, woven throughout and never belabored, it’s that the self is more slippery than we allow. (Read the review.)

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