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I initially thought that I would use this assignment to force myself to write out a list of the books that I have read so far this year. 
But, I'm not feeling it. 
So, here is a screenshot of my bookshelf in the app I use to checkout ebooks from the library:

Wish you could wrap text around the image

And here is a list I wrote out for my Summer [biology] Research student who asked me for recommendations:

Non-Fiction
Anything by Malcolm Gladwell
I particularly liked Blink, but all of his books are fantastic. Thought provoking, insightful, educational, entertaining.

The Body - Bill Bryson
Entertaining and an easy read but with lots of interesting facts on how major body systems work. Like a Ms. Frizzle bus tour for grown ups.

The Wild Life of our Bodies - Rob Dunn
Similar to the above, but looks at broader questions as well like, why do we have innate fears, autoimmune diseases...We read this in seminar this Spring and the students seemed to enjoy. Rob Dunn has a number of books that look interesting.

Your Inner Fish - Neil Shubin
Basically, vestigial traits in humans, evidence of shared common ancestry with fish.

Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
A memoir of sorts by a fairly young female scientist. It’s not really scientific, mostly personal, but was interesting. She also had a brand new book,, that looks promising.

The Feather Thief - Kirk Wallace Johnson
True story about a little known heist of some natural history collections. You’ll probably remember Alfred Russel Wallace from Chapter 1 of Into the Jungle. I found it very interesting.

Becoming - Michelle Obama
Memoir. I loved this, but won’t be for everyone. Touching and apolitical as I remember it.

Fiction
The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
A beautiful but heart wrenching work about two girls, friends, growing up in antebellum South Carolina: one a slave, the other a child of the plantation owners.

Flight Behavior - Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver has a way of make nature a character in among the normal, but not “normal,” characters. Fictionalized, but some real science. Former mentors of mine, monarch butterfly experts, consulted on the science pieces.


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  1. I am sure there is a code one could add to wrap the text around the image.

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    1. I just did a bit of research and it can be fixed also by adjusting the theme layout options.

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