Thursday, May 20, 2010

July 1st - "Henrietta Lacks" Book Discussion Here!

Be there or be square. July 1st. Our book is "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. It's a compelling one. So much so that Oprah and "True Blood" creator Alan Ball are doing an HBO film project based on it. Hooray!

10 comments:

caramama said...

Is this our Bloggy Friends Book Club? No shitty members allowed? I'm totally in!

paola said...

Haven't read it but if the book store at the station has it (as if) I'll get me self a copy. Oh, I read now! I spend three hours a day on public transport to and from 'work' and even managed to finish WolfHall in a couple of sittings.

P.s you are going to so 'the Thirteenth Hour' aren't you???

nej said...

I'm on it! I'm gonna amazon myself a copy right now!

mom2boy said...

Got it. I should be able to make the July 1 deadline. :)

blue said...

Working on getting myself a copy. Podunk library=fail. Next step, Amazon.

Jac said...

I'm in. Ordered it on the Kindle today!

Claudia said...

Pusher. Ok, ok, that's not fair. Now it's more like peer pressure.
Ordered. I'm in.
What's our secret handshake?

Claudia said...

Are you still around, hush? It's been a while; not that you have any obligation, of course. Just mildly concerned.
Have any of you heard the short bit on Radio Lab about Henrietta Lacks' tumor? It has some audio from the author's recordings, and it's nice to hear these people's voices.
You can find it on the episode called Famous Tumors.

Claudia said...

Nevermind, nevermind. I'm enrolling in my remedial blog reading class tomorrow.

hush said...

@Claudia - No worries. I'm the the remedial course for blog reading & writing (& 'rithmetic, too).