Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The History of Flies and Mosquitos: Final Book of the Year

Historia de las moscas y de los mosquitos: y su influencia en el devenir de la humanidad by Xavier Sistach

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This is it: this will be my final book for the year, and #26 for my reviews. And I have saved the most difficult book for last   I’m not going to lie, it took my close to 4 months to make my way through Historia de las moscas y de los mosquitos: y su influencia en el devenir de la humanidad This is honestly because the books was well above my skill level. However, many of the books that were at my skill level […]

The World’s Deadliest Animal

The Fever: How Malaria has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah

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CBR Bingo: The Wilds (all about malaria, mosquitoes, and pesticides) There’s nothing I like reading about more than infectious disease. I’ve read books about rabies, smallpox, influenza, cholera, plague, and lots of others, but I’d never found one about malaria before, so I was really excited to read The Fever. Sadly, I had a lot of trouble getting into this book. Malaria is really hard to understand. It has a complex disease process, and while Shah breaks it down in the first chapter, I still had trouble […]



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