Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

20 reviews

chele96's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Mental illness

kylosten's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Car accident

Moderate: Misogyny and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Blood and Vomit

zunn's review

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Loved this book! It feels like a fiction book because the writing style makes the characters very endearing! Also loved the rhythm between the science info and the biography!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Car accident

Moderate: Pregnancy

gracethebibliofeline's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexism

Minor: Blood and Vomit

idesofmarch's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexism, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Car accident, Medical content, Misogyny, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death of parent and Grief

gnewsom's review

funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

 soooo gooood!! makes me excited to be a scientist and less afraid of failure and having a straight career path; hopefully going to email Hope Jahren and get in touch to tell her 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

elnelson's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Sexism

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

Minor: Death of parent

astrangerhere's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

satsumaorange's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Wow. Just....... Wow. This was perhaps the best book I've read in YEARS. I am currently a STEM student about to enter grad school, and I swear, this is EXACTLY the book I needed to read at this point in my life. If my loved ones wish to understand me, they only need to read the annotations in my copy of Lab Girl.

Jahren writes with sublime devotion to the natural world that she and I both love. Her way of seeing the world... Her scientific mindset that, despite all sense of self-preservation, she can never turn off... Her stories of struggle and stress and the endless clawing fight to the top of the pile... And the love, the pure undiluted passion for her craft. Every word of this book resonated with me to my core. 

Over and over I found myself moved to tears because the challenges she faced were the same ones I'm facing every day as an incoming graduate student. Her words scared me, and comforted me, and showed me exactly the kind of scientist I want to be one day. I am comforted by the fact that she has "made it" through this line of work alive, despite all the hardships she's faced. Reading this book has assured me that there is a future for me in my field. I cannot express how much this book has moved me. 

As soon as I finished it, I wanted to start over again right back at the beginning. I wish I could sit down with Jahren and listen to a thousand more stories from her career as a scientist. I wish I could work in her lab for a day; heck, I wish I could meet the ever-eccentric Bill! I could read hours upon hours of her exploits and scientific pursuits. Jahren illustrates the world of science so vividly, so affectionately, that her love is infectious. Wherever they are (probably in the Jahren lab), I hope she and Bill doing well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Death of parent, and Grief

candleclaudia's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis