I adore this quote. It really is true, there must be two sides to every coin.  Or perhaps I just like it because it makes the upcoming holiday indulgence seem like a prerequisite for being a good kid the rest of the year. More cookies now means more good deeds in 2013? Yes. Let’s go with that.

What can I say, you can take the girl out of psych class but you can’t get psych degrees out of the girl. A little list of books I have my eye on, never enough information about the brain for my liking. Love 2.o is top of my list, though I’m a bit biased since Dr. Fredrickson was a professor at Michigan while I was in the department, and for all of us who pause the screen after Chuck Lorre’s TV shows to read his hilarious vanity cards, now they are all available in a no squinting required collection in What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Bitter.

If the human mind is a bit heavy for this time of year never fear, the holiday reading list is coming up soon!

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks  |  Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks  |  The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton  |  Love 2.0 by Barbara Fredrickson   |  Missing Out by Adam Phillips  |  The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson |  Mastermind by Maria Konnikova |  What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Bitter by Chuck Lorre