“She’s the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can’t we get health insurance?” Y’all, this is a good book. I read a lot of non-fiction, and this book moves faster and stays interesting in a way where a lot of non-fiction falls short. Rebecca Skloot is a talented writer and researcher, and I can’t wait to see what she tackles next. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is about a […]
Badkittyuno’s Review #2: Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
“From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are no longer any rational points of view.” The premise of Surfacing is simple: a young woman returns to her childhood home — a cabin in the woods of Canada — to find her father, who has gone missing. For moral support, she brings along her boyfriend and two friends, a husband and wife. Her boyfriend and the male friend are concurrently filming scenes for series of random images they plan to create. The […]
Badkittyuno’s Review #1: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
“Salt: the only rock we eat”. I’ve really been enjoying this class of books that Goodreads calls “microhistories”, in which an author delves into a single subject with great detail. This particular book focuses on salt, which is a lot more interesting than you’d expect. Salt in some way has influenced: — the discovery of natural gas — Gandhi — taxes — all sorts of words, like soldier and salary — the creation of Tabasco sauce — travel and trade routes in addition to […]