Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer

Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

Katherine E. Standefer

288 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir technology challenging informative tense medium-paced
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Lightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible -- "utterly spectacular." (Rachel Louise Sn...

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Moods

emotional 92%
informative 92%
reflective 61%
sad 38%
challenging 30%
inspiring 23%
adventurous 15%
dark 15%
tense 15%
relaxing 7%

Pace

medium 69%
slow 30%

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