Grist Mill Road - Christopher J. Yates

Eh.
That's how I would describe this book.... eh.
Not bad, not good, medium pace, but never sped up or slowed down so it felt disappointingly even, story ok, not enlightening or surprising....
I know what the author meant to do. I understand how he wanted to work the novel, and he succeeded too.  It just didn't impress me too much. 
Blah....
I guess I wouldn't recommend? I don't really have much of an opinion either way, I suppose that means you shouldn't read this book.

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

This book made me want to murder everyone about 60 years ago.  Women (and men too) have an awful lot to thank Supreme Court Justice Bader Ginsburg for today, as in the fact that you are considered fully human under the law.  RBG got her career rolling by repeatedly attacking sexist laws one at a time.  Her philosophy (with which I completely agree) is that to make lasting and effective change, you have to do it slowly, methodically, and in a logical progression, so that by the time you attack the root of the problem, there are no other excuses standing in your way.  Think of sexism as a pyramid.  If you go after the base, even when you chip part of it away, the less important parts above will still cave in and block your path.  RBG also used the narrow-sightedness of the male experience against them by attacking sexist laws that hurt men, breaking a path to easily continue removing sexist laws that attack women.  She is very smart.  I know large portions of people who get lost in books and cerebral careers aren't great at understanding people, society, or psychology.  RBG was not one of those people.  She is very aware of how to avoid the knee-jerk reactions of the privileged when the playing field is leveled.
The end of the book addresses something I've been hearing for a while:  the public call for her to retire.  Have you ever heard of a sustained, wide-spread call for a male justice to retire? Not really.  I see her remaining as another battle against sexism.  She plans to retire when she can no longer recall every single detail of the court battles that got her to where she is today.  I support that.  There was an incident a few years ago where she fell asleep during a speech (state-of-the-union? I forgot which speech).  People love to use this as an example that she shouldn't be working anymore.  But if you habitually stayed up until 5 am working, you would also fall asleep at a boring ass speech too.  If fact, I'd say most people would fall asleep without keeping the crazy work schedule she does.  I understand her issue perfectly.  Working at your peak when the rest of  the world demands you work on their schedule (which is awful) is hard. Always. 
I look forward to seeing her on the court for many more years.