#20: Gladwell, _Blink_;#21: Thomas, _Not Quite a Husband_

[gwyneira]

#20: Malcolm Gladwell, BlinkGladwell examines how human beings process information to make decisions and how split-second decisions (made in a "blink", by a process he calls "thin-slicing") differ from decisions made at more length. It's certainly on the anecdotal and episodic side, feeling rather like a set of magazine articles pulled together,

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[deepad]

I have no idea what period the Sherry Thomas book is set in, but I just wanted to comment that even if the characters called it a 'rebellion' or 'mutiny', we use the term "revolt of 1857", or even according to some historians, the first war of Independence.

[gwyneira]

The book is set in 1897, in the Malakand region; Thomas refers to the events as "uprisings" in her afterword. The characters use "mutiny", I think, which I did want to avoid, though I hadn't realized that "rebellion" might not be an appropriate word to use nor how important the word choice is there. Thank you for pointing that out.