Emily’s Comments (group member since Feb 08, 2015)

Emily’s comments from the Science Book Chat group.

I think Alok Jha has written such a book on water...

At Eva's suggestion I've started a new thread; I'll try not to let it turn into a Review, but I'm up at the hour when I like to Write, so we'll see what happens.

At the suggestion of a trusted friend (otherwise the title might have put me off), I grabbed this book from the library and, in a fever of new-year ambition and with the help of a bank holiday, read it in 2 days, and probably could have done it in 1 if I hadn't decided to do some regular work on NYD.

I'm grateful for Lab Girl, and Hope Jahren, for a number of reasons. First is that I keep toying with the idea of writing a memoir and am not sure where to start, and I appreciate the way she interleaves stories of her own life with musings on plant and environmental science. Second, she alludes to but is not ruled by both her mental health struggles and the reality of sexism in academia; they don't define her, nor do her relationships. Finally, in Bill, she has a righthand man, who has stuck with her all the way without needing to compete with her. How many working women can say that, let alone scientists?

Right, I'll stop there for now. Lynn, Eva, any male readers? I'll try to loop in Sara as well, aware that this technology may not do all I would like it to, e.g. tag.

Hi Lyn, I just read Lab Girl; loved it! Not without a couple of caveats, though. Would love to her some of your thoughts.

Tap tap...is this thing on? I've turned on notifications so I can keep up.

I love John McPhee's books about geology: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Assembling California, etc. (Next time I'll figure out the best way to insert links!)

Hi, I'm Emily, and I *don't* read that many books on science...but I would like to, and also would like to get recommendations from my knowledgeable colleagues.