Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

The group voted to read the Science & Technology nominee She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity in September. The winner for this genre was The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. Have you read any of the other nominees for this award? Which have you read and what did you think? Which was your favorite?

Do you plan to read any of them in the future? How about setting up a buddy read of one that you are interested in this month? Use this thread to discuss and find a buddy!

Schedule buddy reads here, then set up a separate thread to discuss.

Additional nominees:
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
The Order of Time
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

This isn't really a genre of interest for me. Sometimes the topics look interesting, but then the books are too dry and I feel like I'm reading a textbook.

I tried reading The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, but couldn't get interested in it at all. I put it aside to maybe try another time.

I am interested in reading the group's choice, She Has Her Mother's Laugh. I'm hoping to try it in September, but I haven't had much reading time lately and it is quite a long book at 657 pages.

The only other one that I might be interested in trying at some point is Spying on Whales.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions was good and I really liked Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

I'm interested in When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. I'm not sure it's a great timing right now ;)

Savanes wrote: "I'm interested in When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. I'm not sure it's a great timing right now ;)"

lol That one looks interesting too. Probably not great timing for me right now either.

Kristie wrote: "Savanes wrote: "I'm interested in When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. I'm not sure it's a great timing right now ;)"

lol That one looks interesting too. Probably not gr..."

Maybe not a lucky title then! ;)

My library has that one too. I added it to my "maybe read" list.

Timing: My library states that the book should be available in approximately 2 weeks. I currently have 4 other books on hold that should be available in 2-3 weeks. So it is not good timing to place a hold.

Definitely haha

It really didn't help me, I gave it two stars, really wasn't anything new.

Deborah wrote: "It really didn't help me, I gave it two stars, really wasn't anything new."

Which book are you referring to Deborah?

Sorry, I was talking about When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, I should have replied to your message #5.

Deborah wrote: "Sorry, I was talking about When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, I should have replied to your message #5."

No pb, I was just a bit confused... :)