Tag: Lessons in Chemistry

• Book Review: How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

  How do you feel about books that start with an epigraph? Yea or nay? I generally like it, but sometimes I have no idea of its relevance until deep into the book. Not with this one, however. Last night I finished How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley. This book is VERY popular right now.…

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  February 5, 2025

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• Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

  A few months ago I was reading through my April issue of Bon Appetit magazine when I stumbled upon a personal essay called “It Was Quite Possibly the Worst First Date Ever. Then I Ordered the Scallops.” It was one of the funniest things I had read in quite a while. I read it aloud…

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  September 4, 2022

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  Apple +, Bon Appetit, Bonnie Garmus, Brie Larson, Emily Deschanel, Jim Parsons, Lessons in Chemistry, scientist