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Rebecca Skloot has enjoyed the wonders of hitting the New York Times best seller list with her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. She deserves it. This is a book everyone should read in that everyone should know more about the scientific and ethical issues it addresses. Henrietta Lacks was the woman from [...]

Yesterday, two different people in two different conversations told me quite independently of one another that they always finish a book once they start it and that they never start a new book before they’ve finished the one they’ve started. I thought about my friend Jeanne who has said on occasion when being asked if [...]

I just finished reading Elizabeth Kostova’s The Swan Thieves. It’s a good book. I recommend it. Really, you should read it. I gave it 4 stars on Good Reads. I give 4 stars to lots of books I would truly hope others might pick up and read. So there you go. Read The Swan Thieves [...]

I made a book club group for the school on Goodreads today. So far I’m the only member, so it will be interesting to see how this works out… .gr_grid_container { /* customize grid container div here. eg: width: 500px; */ } .gr_grid_book_container { /* customize book cover container div here */ float: left; width: [...]