Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Why are chemists great for solving problems? A: They have all the solutions.

Charlotte the Scientist Finds a Cure by Camille Andros

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First, I consider myself a feminist and for girl power and helping kids be their best. However, I also believe do not make things an “us and them” situation. The not subtle fact that our title character Charlotte, in Charlotte the Scientist Finds a Cure, is a girl doing science is great, but subconsciously it might turn off boys. Therefore, putting itself solidly in the “this is a girl book” category and boys might be less likely to pick it up. Camille Andros has created a cozy book about “just because you are small you can still do big things.” […]

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3/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:75 |

Folies á Deux

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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Happy Women’s History Month! John Carryrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup taught me a new phrase – folies á deux – a shared psychosis by two people in close proximity. Elizabeth Holmes and her (secret) boyfriend,  Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, ran the company she founded like their own fiefdom. They enforced Elizabeth’s version of reality, kept information siloed, and silenced anyone who questioned or criticized them. I do not know if Elizabeth Holmes started out with good intentions and then was derailed by her own ego and delusions, or if she set out to make a lot of […]

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3/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Why sing ONE song when you can sing four?

The Blue Songbird by  Vern Kousky

Bird Watch by Christie Matheson

Bird Builds a Nest: A First Science Storybook by Martin Jenkins

Warbler Wave by April Pulley Sayre

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Even though the weather has other plans, the calendar is saying that Spring is around the corner. Therefore, the Spring/Easter displays are in full bloom. And on said display for children’s books at work, we have several bird books. Therefore, a lovely theme of birds grace the below reviews. The first book I want to mention is The Blue Songbird by Vern Kousky is a sweet book about finding your “personal song”, it is obvious this story has been done before (cue: Happy Feet I and II). However, (spoiler) this time the bird finds her actual one-of-a-kind song by going on an adventure. […]

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3/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:70 |

Compelling And Satisfying

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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Best for: Anyone who enjoys a true story about shady people who (for the most part) get what’s coming to them. In a nutshell: An experienced Elizabeth Holmes convinces a lot of people that she is on to the next big thing in biotechnology. She isn’t, and she gets VERY touchy when people point that out. Also, lots of powerful old white guys make some absurd financial decisions. Worth quoting: N/A Why I chose it: I listened to the podcast “The Drop Out,” which is just a few episodes long, but was definitely enough to get me interested. Review: Oh […]

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3/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

In the immortal words of Dorothy Zbornak, “If you have to ask, it does not matter.”

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

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I’ve never been the type to read more than one book at a time, but earlier this year, I decided I should both spend less time online and read more poetry and philosophy and mythology and the like. I kept one book on my nightstand to read before bed, another by my desk to read in downtime during work instead of picking up my phone. And it worked! I’ve spent much less time online and more time reading, but this success also led to an unintended side-effect: it’s sooooo much harder to review a book that took me six weeks […]

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2/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Here a skull, there a skull, everywhere a skull-skull….

SKULLS! by Blair Thornburgh

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SKULLS!  Yes, you have one. Yes, I have one. Yes, your dog has one. Yes, even a pirate has one! Blair Thornburgh’s narrator takes you through the world of skulls in a very scientific but simplistic and story formatted, way. Follow the story along as she tells you all the great things skulls can do for you and things about skulls. The afterwards has interesting facts about skulls that do not lend themselves easily to the story itself. This would be a good book to read to an early-aged class learning about basic human body science. It is not necessarily […]

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2/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:50 |

So Much More Than Just Textbook Biology

Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan

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    “So I don’t subscribe to the heroic narrative of science. Rather, some of us are fortunate enough to be the agents of important discoveries that would have been made anyway, sometimes not even that much later. “   I think this quote in particular sums up why I loved this book and its author so much. I am aware from both media portrayals of science and from discussing my work with friends and family that the public perception of the scientific process is pretty divorced from reality. It’s unfortunate, but the narrative is still dominated by the idea […]

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1/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

For my first read of 2019, I decide to learn EVERYTHING

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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Although probably best known for travel writing, Bill Bryson has written a number of science-based nonfiction books, and in 2003 he published a book that pondered the scientific questions and attempted to answer, well, nearly everything. The jump from travel writing to his Short History of Nearly Everything is not such a tremendous leap, however, if you think about it like a travelogue, starting with the beginning of the solar system and ending with life as we know it. In the introduction, Bryson describes how he came to write this book, starting with his experiences studying science in grade school. […]

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1/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |


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