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These reviews are taken from my goodreads profile. I hope you will follow me on there!

I read this book as a part of the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge.

This book centers on two characters, Anna Karenina, who gives up her marriage and son to live life with another man, and Konstantin Levin, who is searching for the meaning of life. Levin is supposed to represent Tolstoy in the book. The plot reads like a soap opera set in Russia in the late 1870’s. The only things that I would say grew tiresome for me is Levin’s life as a farmer and the workings of Russian politics, all of which I skimmed!

In the 1950s at Johns Hopkins Hospital, an African American woman’s cells were taken without her knowledge. Her cells became legendary because they were the first cells grown in culture, still being grown today and have helped develop the polio vaccine, brought scientists closer to finding cures for cancer, and gene mapping. Yet little was known about the woman behind the “HeLa cells” before Rebecca Skloot’s fascinating book. The writer delves into the lives of Henrietta Lacks and her family and explores issues such as patient consent and experimentation on African Americans. Definitely recommended!

23 year old Bobby Callahan hires private investigator Kinsey Milhone because he believes someone is trying to kill him after a car accident left him with impaired memory. Kinsey tries to fill in the gaps before someone tries again. I read these books years ago but have forgotten how good they were. This is a great story with plenty of suspense and I look forward to going through the rest of the alphabet!

I hope you enjoyed my reviews. Once again feel free to follow me on goodreads so we can share recommendations!