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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is $2.99! This originally started as a Kindle Daily Deal and so far, Barnes & Noble as match the price. Let’s hope a few others will join the fight! I believe Carrie has read the book and loved it; her recommendation was why I bought the book months and months ago. There seemed to be a few readers who felt the author inserted herself too much into the nonfiction narrative, but many enjoyed how the medical science in the book was written in such a relatable way. It has a 4-star rating on GR.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.
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The Southerner’s Handbook
The Southerner’s Handbook by the Editors of Garden & Gun is $1.99! If you’ve never heard of Garden & Gun, I recommend you going to the nearest newsstand and buying a copy of the magazine immediately. It’s a beautiful publication geared toward the Southern audience. This looks to be part cookbook and part lifestyle guide. Readers thought this was a fun book, though readers not from the South said they probably would have enjoyed the book more if they were. Any Garden & Gun readers out there?
From the editors of Garden & Gun-the award-winning magazine known as “The Soul of the South”-comes a sublime and practical guidebook to the essentials of modern Southern living
The South has risen again: From the ubiquity of pickled ramps and Sazeracs on northern urban restaurant menus to the craze for bespoke leather goods, artisanal whisky, and regional literature, Americans have fallen under the charming spell of Southern culture. Now, the taste-making editors of Garden & Gun offer a compendium of essential Southern skills-drawn from tradition yet utterly modern-straight from leading experts and writers who embody the contemporary South. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this anthology-style manual includes more than 75 essays and instructional features on essential aspects of Southern life, including Food & Drink, Style, Entertaining, Home, Gardening, Sporting and The Outdoors, and Southern Tradition.
The Southerner’s Handbook contains such requisite information as:
• How to season grits, fry okra, and shuck an oyster
• How to drink bourbon, make moonshine, and mix the perfect Bloody Mary
• How to fly fish, shoot a dove, and bet on a horse
• How to set a sideboard, polish silver, and be a gracious host
• How to break in Western boots, fold a pocket square, and embrace seersucker
• How to write the Great Southern Novel, play a blues song, and tell a great story
As flavorful, authentic, and irresistible as the land and the people who inspire it, The Southerner’s Handbook is the ultimate guide to being a Southerner (no matter where you live).Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is $2.99! This is another Kindle Daily Deal that was picked up by Barnes & Noble. This is one of the books that I’ve seen everywhere, but I’ve never read and know little about. It’s a young adult paranormal book that uses illustrations and old photographs in the story, which some seemed to love while others hated (my roommate included). For those who have read it, what did you think?
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
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Twin of Ice
Twin of Ice by Jude Deveraux is $1.99! This is an old school (I’m talking 80s here) historical western romance. It’s also the second book in the Chandler Twins series. It’s a marriage of convenience story with a bit of class difference thrown in, for those who are into that particular brand of catnip. A few readers found the hero to be a Grade A douchecanoe, but some remember the book fondly as one of their first forays into western romance. It has a 3.9-star rating on GR.
Happily betrothed to Dr. Lee Westfield, Houston is every bit the good girl she was raised to be. So when faced with Kane Taggert’s brash marriage proposal, Houston is outwardly shocked. But beneath her gracious demeanor lies a woman of hidden longings — and her defenses begin to melt the second this rugged stranger touches his hungry lips to hers.
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This book rocked me back on my heels! Highly recommend it.
Sorry. I should have said The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks rocked me back on my heels! Haven’t read the others in this post.
I liked Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, but it suffers from some SERIOUS exposition problems. The beginning is SO creepy and cool and neat… and then halfway through the book just sits the hero down and explains things in detail for PAGES. It just really ripped away all of the cool mystery and fantasy, and the big villain’s confrontation feels goofy… he won’t even stop monologing! I don’t know. It ends on a big cliffhanger that initially made me mad, but I’m not sure I’m sold on picking up the sequel (even though it’s also on sale), because it felt like halfway through the book morphed from “scary fantasy paranormal” to “Harry Potter meets the X-Men, without all the cool stuff”. It has a lot of good qualities, but it also turned out to be not what I thought I was buying. (And there is a romance, sort of, but it’s really, really dumb and perfunctory. I can’t say why without spoiling something, but man.) Caveat emptor and all that.
As a heads up, the sequel to Miss Peregrine’s, The Hollow City, is also on sale for $2.99.
Garden & Gun is awesome! I regularly give it as a christmas gift, but to be fair I am in/from the south.
Henrietta is an outstanding book.
I love Garden & Gun, and I bought THE SOUTHERNER’S HANDBOOK as soon as it was released. It’s witty and chraming and lovely.