Lab Girl has been siting on my shelf for the past couple of years. I started last summer and fell in love with Hope Jahren's elegant prose, but failed to finish the book thanks to our massive kitchen remodel. So, when it was time to pack books to take to the beach, this one was on the top of the pile for me.
Jahren is a paleobotanist who studies plants around the world. She has an elegant way of entertaining her own story of personal growth within snippets explaining how plants grow and thrive throughout our world. I highly recommend this read--I know I will return to it again. It gave me a new perspective on plants and I now wonder each time I go on a walk what each plant in our beautiful neighborhood's story is. Many things in this book struck a cord with me: being a female in science, dealing with mental health challenges, and the beauty of constant reinvention to learn something new. These themes have traveled throughout my own life and her elegant way of describing her experiences made me feel like someone else out there had lived similar experiences. I will definitely purchase this book to give my female students who are heading off into STEM fields so that they know they can too succeed.
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