Reviews with content warning for Mental illness - Lab Girl

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itsdeenlee's review

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emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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angorarabbit's review against another edition

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slow-paced

1.5

TLDR: The perfect book to give your daughter if you don’t want her to major in STEM.

This is a memoir so I feel like criticising the book is criticising the writer. Which is not my goal. Ms Jahren is a successful scientist with many peer reviewed papers to her name. I am not.

Most of my problem with the book is that her personality and mine clash violently. Perhaps Ms Jahren’s personality is the type that makes a good scientist and a good science educator. I need to read some more science memoirs.

I will say that I was disappointed that she didn’t give more details in how discrimination affected her career and what steps worked to overcome that discrimination. Also how other scientists who were also discriminated against because of gender, ethnicity, orientation or disability were treated and what their outcomes were.

Interspersed between each chapter recalling her life is a short chapter about trees. Anthropomorphized trees. Seeds spend decades hoping for the right conditions to sprout. They hope that they get enough rain at the right times.Trees worry and hope and think more that I do. It felt like the biology was dumbed down a little to much with a few big words sprinkled in so I would know this was special science stuff.

Her care and worry about the earth and all the lives on it in the face of climate change is very clear. But I’ve read all this for over 30 years now. We need to stop talking about climate change and start doing something about it. The only suggestion that I saw was to stop cutting so many trees. We passed that point some time ago.

I thank my library for making this available on the Kindle app. The only bad part was I couldn’t throw the book into the wall without ruining my tablet.

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chele96's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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kylosten's review

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informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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zunn's review against another edition

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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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gracethebibliofeline's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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idesofmarch's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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gnewsom's review against another edition

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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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