I'm Just a Person
reviewdate:
Dec 8 2016
isn:
9780062266651
Tagged with cancer
The Loose Ends List
reviewdate:
Jul 11 2016
isn:
9780316382816
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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the
This is one of those popular books that is so popular you don't want to read it, and then it turns out to be as good as the hype. It's a sort of biography/history/science story about the cancer cells of a poor, black mother-of-five who got cancer in a time when medical ethics were more highly evolved for animals than for humans.
reviewdate:
Jan 5 2012
isn:
978-1-4000-5218-9
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Time for Dancing, A
So you don’t think I’m completely cold-hearted after reading the majority of my recent teen fiction reviews, A Time for Dancing really got me. I was drawn to it because it appeared to be about dancers, and while that’s kind of true, the dancing part wasn’t what I was hoping for. I was pretty much sucked in by the sob story, told in the voices of a pair of best friends, navigating cancer. Both points of view are credible and moving.
reviewdate:
Mar 29 2011
isn:
0-14-038618-1