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Aug 10, 2016
Becky
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Interesting botany/geoscience vignettes framing a memoir of a scientist and her lab partner.highly recommended!
Mar 29, 2017
Rachel N.
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This book is part a memoir of Hope's life and part stories of plants, especially trees and their development. I majored in plants and soils so I really enjoyed the biology parts of the book. The author skips around a lot when describing her own life. She barely touches on her childhood and graduate school. She does tell some amusing stories about her lab. It would have been nice if she spent more time covering her own life in the book.
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Brilliant! The nerdy bipolar paleobiologist, her amazingly loyal lab assistant, and her eventual family interspersed with more than you even thought you needed to know about plants and how discoveries are made. It's funny at times, a little sad at times, but always interesting. I regard my trees with new respect.
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I loved this book! The audio book is amazing and full of passion. In the end, I learned I really need a Bill.
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