Brittany

Informative and touching

Really glad I got to read this book. I learned a lot about jazz but also about some of the hardships transgendered kids have to go through. Even though you can tell this was written by a 15 year old girl, it reads exceptionally well. For anyone who wants to know more about the trans youth and is willing to try to understand or learn more or ways you can help. Lots of awesome information and links included at the end of the book too in order to do more research on your own.

This book is really a great fun read. Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, the woman behind the HeLa cells, and tries to give the reader, as well as the Lack's family, a view of what Henrietta's life was before her fame with HeLa. It was nice to see the relationship between Deborah, Henrietta's daughter, and Rebecca form, and to see that the Lack's would learn that not everyone was out to get them. I wish that they were able to get more recognition for Henrietta, and I would like to see that happen in the future. I'm sure this book has helped out with that, and its great that a foundation was set up for the children and family of Henrietta Lacks. It's also great that this book also teaches the reader about cells, and how scientists and researchers usually save our “unwanted” and “discarded” cells for potential use in the future. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn and have an enjoyable book to read about an important woman who has changed science for the better.

Informative and quick to read. Learned that the reason presidents have summer homes is because of the yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia in 1793 and 1794 when Washington had to leave the sick area to keep his family safe. Also learned that certain laws were made during this time in relation to urgent sickness and the government.
Sad to see that the work of the free African society has not been made more public even today, over 200 years after this outbreak.
Terrified of another “time bomb” of yellow fever effecting the world with limited vaccines available due to lack of production.
Overall great easy read.

I really enjoyed this book. It fully captivated me and pulled me in which is impressive for a non fiction book to do. I've been telling all my mates to read it too now cause I want to talk to people about it! Some other reviewers have said it seems a bit too crazy to be true, which maybe it is. We don't know, only the people who were there in the moments know what is the truth. We can't judge how others record their memories of events and such. But regardless it was still an amazing read and it would be great fact or fiction. It's quite obvious that the poor woman has a lot of emotional baggage and trauma from her childhood and I wish her the best in healing from it all.

I love Mary Roach's books. Shes very informative and fun. Her books make you feel like you're not really learning, but you are! Stiff was a great read for me since I'm grossly interested in forensic anthropology. Stiff taught me so many things about cadavers that I would have never expected to learn. Highly recommended if you're into the dead, or you're just interested in learning anything for fun!

I received this book as a goodreads giveaway. I finally got around to reading it and I must say what a pleasant surprise it was! I started out slow but after I got about 25% into the book I didn't want to put it down.
It's a wonderful story about quite a few generations of a family that you start to feel as if they are your own relatives. It all is centered in a small Italian island and specifically in a house/ bar. I feel as if I was the walls of the house learning to love this family as its characters came through it. Full of emotions and love and hurt and heartbreak and hope. What a great first book by Catherine Banner

I really want to enjoy this book, and for the crime and detective aspects I do! And I like the look into history as the author does. But the sex scenes are just cringe worthy with unrealistic/ weirdly detailed acts happening, not to mention they don't seem to agree with the rest of the story line. They appear randomly and disappear just as quickly. If Bernie is meant to have a romance or 2 that's fine, but have some lead up to it. Not just a sex scene popping up randomly.