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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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“Who needs flowers? Roses fade, but flaky soap available from the PX lasted months. “

February 17, 2016 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I loved the topic of this book, I wasn’t so much in love with its execution. I listened to this one via audiobook, as has become a new obsession of mine, and I’ve noticed that listening to books as opposed to reading them can really highlight poor editorial choices. There were many cases in the course of reading this book where we were revisiting information for the third or fourth time and it bothered me. Not enough to stop listening to this book, but enough […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: atomic history, denise kiernan, faintingviolet, the girls of atomic city, WWII

faintingviolet's CBR8 Review No:11 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: atomic history, denise kiernan, faintingviolet, the girls of atomic city, WWII ·
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