52 Books in a Year Update #6

Yikes!  I really need to pick it up if I’m going reach my 52 book goal.  Leave any book recommendations in the comments – I need some real page turners that I can fly through.  Here’s what I read lately:

16.  by Laura Bates

I enjoyed this book.  Laura Bates is an amazing woman who spent hours and hours volunteering her time teaching Shakespeare to prisoners in maximum security prisons and even those that had been in years of solitary confinement.  It was an eye-opening look at the prison system and also amazing to read about how Shakespeare helped some of these prisoners turn their lives around.

17.  by Curtis Sittenfeld

I couldn’t put this book down.  I don’t want to give anything away but basically a psychic predicts a natural disaster and drama ensues.  Although I have to say the ending left me a bit unsettled. If anyone else has read this book, let me know what you thought about the ending.  It’s possible I was so attached to the characters I just wanted to know more about what continued to happen to them.

18. by Rebecca Skloot

This book was interesting.  It was all about the woman who was the origin of the famous HeLa cells.  HeLa cells were instrumental in the development of the polio vaccine, virology, cancer research, and many more science advancements.  The cells were derived from an African American woman in 1951 without her knowledge or her family’s knowledge and the book is all about how that affected their lives.  It is a bit sciency in parts but not so much that it wasn’t still entertaining.

19. By Amy Poehler

I wanted to love love this book but I only enjoyed parts of it.  I struggled through the chapters about Amy’s (first name basis because we are name twins!) early days doing improv and all the SNL references.  Maybe because I have never been a big SNL fan.  But I did love the parts about Parks and Rec and hearing about Amy’s relationship with all of my favorite characters.

Past 52 Books Posts:

Update #1

Update #2

Update #3

Update #4

Update #5

 

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