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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Wrapping Up 2019 (More Books Read Than Reviewed)

American Like Me by America Ferrera

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

So Big by Edna Ferber

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill us by Hanif Abdurraqib

December 30, 2019 by Jenny S 3 Comments

So this has been a year when sitting down to write book reviews has not been my strong suit.  According to Goodreads, I’ve read 47 books and that may actually be missing one or two; however, I don’t think I’m going to make it to a half Cannonball this year. So, here are some books that I read this fall that I thought were worth mentioning, even if I didn’t give them full reviews at the time. American Like Me-Reflections on Life Between Cultures: America […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #hope jahren, America Ferrera, American Like ME, Becoming, Edna Ferber, Hanif Abdurraqib, Lab Girl, Michelle Obama, So Big, they can't kill us until they kill us

Jenny S's CBR11 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #hope jahren, America Ferrera, American Like ME, Becoming, Edna Ferber, Hanif Abdurraqib, Lab Girl, Michelle Obama, So Big, they can't kill us until they kill us ·
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Can You Have PTSD Flashbacks to Grad School?

January 3, 2018 by Beth Ellen Leave a Comment

So I finished this audiobook a week ago, and even though I usually try to review immediately (hence my 6 months I hate the world review hiatus last year) I still need to confront this one. Hope Jahren is a biology research professor. This is both a memoir and a love story to plants and the world. It is read by the author. It is open and honest about so much, while at the same time glossing over so much more. She begins with where […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #hope jahren, Beth Ellen, Lab Girl

Beth Ellen's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #hope jahren, Beth Ellen, Lab Girl ·
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