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I finished Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson. A touching story about the effects of racial dynamics and disconnection from family on relationships.
I am currently reading How to Solve It, by George Pólya
and Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard, an incredible narrative on her journey to discover how trees and fungi link together forests.
Every summer I like to read a lot of books across a variety of genres. I also enjoy re-reading books because I often see new insights and connections.
Skloot paints a multidimensional portrait of the dual nature of medical advances. She chronicles the stories of exploitation of Black Americans in medicine through the story of Henrietta Lacks and her cervical tumor cells (HeLa cells). Skloot uses her journey of forming a relationship with the Lacks family to put all the medical advances and doctors she describes into a broader context. I will always remember that honoring the person that a sample came from is as equally important as the research itself.
A beautiful cross-generational story centered in the city of Memphis, Tennessee in the south of the United States that covers themes from the legacy of segregation to the intimate struggles of a young female artist as she grapples with the expectations of her mother.
An autobiographical account of how Foer learned to improve his memory, but from the perspective of a science journalist. I will always remember the concept of a memory palace. Instead of rote memorization, I should think of a place I am very familiar with, like my house, and store information in the form of unique images that occur at certain spaces as I walk though the house.
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