We all know and love J.K. Rowling for her incredible tales of adventure and triumph in the wizarding world. On a very different note, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination is the documentation of the speech she gave to the Harvard graduating class of 2008. We learn a lot about her life personally and how her experiences shaped her into the woman that she is today. She shares with us emotional moments and valuable life lessons as she attempts to demonstrate the importance of failure and the power of imagination. A quick read, roughly 70 pages with lots of imagery thrown in, it’s more than worth the 45 minutes it will take to finish it. It can be found on the shelves of Acorn Public Library or requested through the SWAN catalog: https://swanlibs.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ads/search/results?qu=Very+Good+Lives&te=